It Was Just a Fantasy: Jackson Twenty-One’s Promised Downtown Dream is Nothing More than Acres of High Density Apartments

It was an impossible dream that is now dead. Another broken promise by Jackson Township’s elected officials that nobody wants to talk about

JACKSON, NJ – Back in 2013, Broadway legend Mitch Leigh stood before the Jackson Chamber of Commerce and painted a picture that sounded too good to be true — because it was supposed to be. The Tony Award-winning composer of Man of La Mancha had spent decades quietly assembling nearly 1,000 acres off Exit 21 of I-195.

His vision for Jackson Twenty-One wasn’t just another subdivision. It was to be a “drea...