Downtown – Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Lawrenceville is a small town with a few blocks of commercial buildings. Most are transitional residential type buildings that have been repurposed for commercial uses.
One of the nice features of the town are passageways connecting parking to the rear with the street. This is because the residential buildings were detached from one another giving space between them to walk. Here these spaces have been treated well with furnishing, fencing, and festoon lighting.
The Main Street Office is in a house behind the block with the most commercial buildings. Efforts have been made to bring plantings and blade signs that enhance the pedestrian experience for people visiting the downtown.
The Lawrence Hopewell Trail is accessible from one of the many streets connecting with the village. This provides connectivity throughout the region.
Another pathway has potential to be set up along the former Johnson Trolley Line that ran between Princeton and Trenton. While not fully accessible, work was underway to plan to incorporate this into a regional park system.
This planting bed is particularly thriving with “milkweed for monarchs” as the sign says.
Two-sided wayfinding signs help to navigate people to important locations in the village. Given there are so few, it is possible to name individual businesses.
Other wayfinding signage has a large parking icon directing people to the public parking lot behind the buildings.
Public trash cans have five gallon buckets attached to them for purposes of recycling. Given the relatively small volume, they either need to be emptied regularly or are not used much.