Ewing Nj Mayor Portable May 2026

“People yell at me at the grocery store about their tax bill,” he says. “I tell them the truth: the only way to lower taxes is to grow our commercial tax base. And that starts with the riverfront.”

Rather than wait for a white knight, Steinmann did something unusual: he lobbied the state for “brownfield” tax credits, pieced together $12 million in federal infrastructure money, and began demolishing the plant himself —by which he means, he put the township in the driver’s seat. ewing nj mayor

For decades, this 170-acre stretch along the Delaware River was a symbol of Ewing’s industrial might. After the plant closed in 1998, it became a symbol of rust-belt decay—a fenced-off, contaminated ghost town in the heart of Mercer County. For nearly 25 years, every mayor promised to fix it. But it is Steinmann, a low-key Democrat first elected in 2020, who finally has a wrecking ball on site. “People yell at me at the grocery store