 The Sayen home and its gardens were purchased by Hamilton Township from developer David Cellars in 1988 with the intention of turning the Sayen property into a public park called Sayen Park Botanical Garden.According to an article in the September 1, 2006 Times of Trenton, an unknown source contacted the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in 1991, three days prior to the public opening of Sayen Garden.The source claimed that, "waste chemicals and solid debris "(from Mercer Rubber)" had been dumped on the Sayen Gardens grounds for years while the property was the home of Frederick Sayen."