“Cancer can’t wait.”

It’s one of the sayings you’ll hear around the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s new Cancer Pavilion — a 12-story, 510,000-square-foot, $750 million building on Somerset Street in New Brunswick situated across from the existing center to create a place for cancer treatment that organizers feel will be unrivaled anywhere in the area.

It’s why the demolition of the building on the existing spot could come as early as this summer, a groundbreaking ceremony could be held in the fall and a ribbon-cutting by the end of 2023.
At least, that’s the hope of developer Chris Paladino, the president of the New Brunswick Development Corp. and the visionary for so much of the city.