The Kenilworth Planning Board on the evening approved a preliminary and final major site plan for application 25-008, allowing interior reconfiguration of the NEST 15 building at 2000 Galloping Hill Road to add corridors, courtyard improvements and enclosed meeting pods. The board approved the application following presentation by the applicant's attorney, Jason Tufall, and testimony from engineering witness Daniel (Dan) Miola.

The project repurposes space inside the existing, single-tenant building to support multiple tenants and to create interior amenity space. "We are proposing courtyards and some amenity space within that structure," attorney Jason Tufall said during the presentation. Engineer Daniel Miola described four existing courtyards, three of which are fully enclosed by the building, and the proposal to add covered corridors so employees would not have to walk through another tenant’s leased space.

Miola told the board the building is large (the transcript references approximately 1,200,000 square feet) and that each corridor is roughly 1,500 square feet; the corridors together would add about 6,000 square feet of interior area. Design details include removal and replacement of artificial turf in the two southern courtyards, new hardscape and perennial plantings in the northern courtyards, and two dome-like enclosed meeting pods approximately 20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high.

On drainage and utilities, Miola said the courtyards are already open to the sky and retain trench drainage infrastructure that will largely be maintained; where corridors partition courtyards, additional inlets will connect to the existing system. "The benefit for that is that these are already open to the sky," Miola said regarding drainage access and the ability to link new inlets to the existing infrastructure.

The application did not request any variances, and applicant representatives stated they can comply with the comments in the board professionals' letters, including a referenced consultant letter dated 11/18/2025. The board asked several clarifying questions about tenant configuration, enclosure, facades and new doors; Miola confirmed the corridors are internal, that there are two new doors shown to access a cafeteria and a fitness center, and that exterior facades otherwise will not be altered.

The board opened the hearing to public comment; no members of the public spoke. Mister Grimaldi moved to approve the application and Mayor Karlovich seconded. The board recorded a roll-call vote and the chair announced the application was approved. The board's approval was conditioned on adherence to the consultant and professional reports, per the applicant's stipulation.

Next procedural steps noted during the meeting included record-keeping of exhibits and the applicant returning originals as requested. The meeting then proceeded to other business and adjourned later in the session.