Trump National Golf Club will appear before the Bedminster, New Jersey township’s land use board Dec. 3 with plans to construct five new cottages and expand an existing cottage, leading to speculation that Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, could be planning on making Bedminster their home once her father leaves office.
In 2015, the township approved 23 cottages on the 504-acre property on Lamington Road that borders Interstate 78.
Fourteen cottages were built with eight held in reserve for a future site plan, with another cottage along Lamington Road.
The new plan calls for the eight cottages held in reserve to be reconfigured into five cottages with plans for the remaining three to be eliminated.
Trump National, under its corporate name of Lamington Farm Golf Club, initially submitted the plan to the township for approval in July.
In 2001, when the township granted approval for the first 18-hole golf course on what used to be the estate of John Delorean, cottages were included, but since then, their number and configurations have changed.
Former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez once lived in one of the cottages. Jets owner Woody Johnson, now the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, owns an estate on the other side of Lamington Road from the club.
The application before the land use board also calls for the construction of a multi-purpose building for members and five pickleball courts next to the existing paddle tennis courts.
The two-story multi-purpose building will house rooms for spa treatments, yoga and massage and a dry goods “general store” on the second floor.
Plans for the expanded cottage prepared by architect Edward Mattew O’Brien call for two new bedrooms, a new mud room, a new bathroom and a new veranda on the first floor. The second floor will have an expanded master bedroom, an expanded master bathroom, a new dressing room, a new study, a new bathroom and an expanded bedroom.
When the renovations are completed, the cottage will have seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner were married at the golf club on Oct. 25, 2009.
In a story published Wednesday, The New York Times speculated that the couple, who have three children, will make the cottage their base because they may no longer feel welcome in Manhattan social circles.
Kushner’s family owns real estate throughout Central Jersey, including office buildings on Route 22 in Bridgewater.
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