Another piece of the old Fort Monmouth is turning into houses.
Lennar broke ground Oct. 21 on The Premiere at Monmouth, a new community of 32 single-family homes and 188 townhomes in Eatontown, according to Lennar's release on PR Newswire. We didn't find a copy on Lennar's own site. The community is part of the 1,226-acre Fort Monmouth redevelopment, on a site the company says sat vacant for more than two decades. Sales are expected to start in late fall 2026.
"For decades, the Howard Commons area of the former Fort Monmouth provided housing to hundreds of military families," Eatontown Mayor Anthony Talerico Jr. said in the release. "Now, after many years of lying vacant, the Borough of Eatontown is ready to welcome new families to this area."
What's being built
The release doesn't give floor plans, square footage or prices. Every home will be sold under Lennar's "Everything's Included" program, which builds popular features and finishes into the base price instead of selling them as upgrades.
Dana Romano, president of Lennar's New Jersey–New York division, called Fort Monmouth "one of the most exciting redevelopment stories on the Jersey Shore."
The neighborhood around it
The site is about five miles from the shore, with NJ Transit service and commuter routes to New York City nearby. Lennar also points to the planned Netflix Studios East campus, a 292-acre production facility that the release says is expected to bring significant jobs to the area.
Fort Monmouth was a U.S. Army installation that closed in 2011, and the property has been redeveloped in pieces since then across Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls.
Why it matters for Contractors
Two hundred twenty homes, mostly townhomes, is steady production work in a part of Monmouth County where large new-home jobs don't come along often. Townhome buildings mean firewalls, shared roofs and stacked schedules, so crews that can keep up with a production builder's pace will be in demand.
Lennar's "Everything's Included" model also means fewer change orders and a fixed finish list. That's good for crews that like repeatable work, but it means Lennar is pricing every trade tightly. Jersey Shore subs interested in Premiere at Monmouth should get in front of Lennar's New Jersey–New York purchasing team now, before the first buildings go vertical. And with Netflix's studio campus going up nearby, commercial work at the fort could pull from the same labor pool.