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Some of the state’s most significant economic development activity is taking place in Middlesex County. Already home to pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson and Rutgers University’s largest campus – both in New Brunswick – Middlesex is practically bursting with new construction that will bring more tech, eds and meds to Central New Jersey.

The $732 million HELIX project and a free-standing cancer hospital are joining the New Brunswick skyline. Development is reshaping Woodbridge and Metuchen, with the latter garnering recognition for its efforts downtown. Earlier this year, Middlesex College started work on$126 million in new projects that will bring a student center and multipurpose community venue that will be the home of the Rutgers baseball team. A new Innovation Magnet School is also under construction at the college.

John Pulomena sits in the middle of all this work. Pulomena, a former executive at AT&T Bell Labs who has a degree in computer science, has been the county administrator since 2008.

In this edition of NJBIZ Conversations, Pulomena talks about what’s going on in New Brunswick and throughout the county, and how all that development fits together.

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