New Brunswick underscored its nickname as “The Hub City” today with the groundbreaking of the New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub, a $665 million, 550,000-square-foot development that is destined to be a center of innovation, research and development, and medical education not just for the city and state, but nation and world.

It was almost a year ago when it was announced that Princeton University, Rutgers University, Hackensack Meridian Health and RWJBarnabas Health would be the core tenants at the site, which is expected to open in 2024. Today, it was announced that the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will relocate to the site and that it will also include the Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science.