A vacant office building in Voorhees, New Jersey is being converted into 178 apartments, Jersey Digs reported, under a redevelopment plan for what the outlet calls Four Echelon Plaza.
The project takes an existing South Jersey office building — described in the report as historic to the Echelon Plaza office corridor — and guts it for residential use rather than demolishing it, a conversion path that keeps the structural frame and envelope in place and shifts the scope toward interior gut work, new MEP risers, and unit-by-unit buildout. Jersey Digs did not name a general contractor, architect, or construction start date in its report.
For NYC-area contractors tracking where office-to-residential conversion work is actually landing, Voorhees adds to a growing list of Northeast and mid-Atlantic office buildings being repositioned as housing rather than re-leased — the same economics playing out in Newark's Prudential towers (1.1 million square feet of now-vacant institutional office space, per JLL) are showing up at suburban scale in Camden County.
No construction timeline, financing figures, or building permit has been reported for the Voorhees site. The project is at the approval/redevelopment-plan stage based on Jersey Digs' reporting; it has not been confirmed as under construction.
What to do next
If your shop does office-to-residential conversion work — selective demolition, new vertical MEP chases, unit partition framing — Camden County's Voorhees project is one to track for an eventual bid package, but there's no GC or permit yet to chase. Keep an eye on Camden County and Voorhees Township planning board dockets for the site plan approval that will trigger permitting, and watch for a building permit filing with Voorhees Township once a contractor is selected.