So says Anonymous. JFK has no comment, VP for Governmental Affairs Adam Beder tells Plaintalker.
The story of Plainfield's plan for a study of the Muhlenberg site was online at the Courier News Wednesday afternoon, with no comment from JFK spokesman Steven Weiss.
Is it time to be on tenterhooks? The drawing of sides on this issue echoes the standoff in Washington. One can feel incensed that it has come to this, but those of us on the sidelines, without the clout to force an outcome, may just have to wait and see what happens.
The spectrum here has 600 luxury apartments on one end and, some insist, nothing less than a full-service hospital on the other. In between, what? JFK ties an enhanced emergency medical facility to the residential development, a package deal. It will be six months before the proposed city-funded study is complete, so we don't know what it will recommend or how viable it will be.
http://maggieblanck.com/Land/WE.html
Tenterhooks. We're on them.
--Bernice
let em do what they feel they need to do... Plainfield is where it is today because it listened to the naysayers whispering in their ear ( yes... that would be you, our dear patron Saint and his political cronies over the years ) , "This is the best you'll get.. if you don't take this you'll have nothing... "
ReplyDeleteHere's the deal... You know what ?? Sometimes nothing is better than something that is bad. That's how you can finally grow and move forward..accepting that you do not need to settle.
In the meantime... I'd have the tax assessment on the property updated and ready to be sent in the mail... They want to play hardball.. throw them a multimillion dollar hardball and see if they are as tough as their talk.
Rob, I agree 100%. JFK, close the emergency room if that is what you need to do. We don’t need your threats and will not be tolerant of them. As I said before, where there is a need, it will be fulfilled. An emergency room type of facility is opening in South Plainfield right next to AP on Oak Tree Rd and I am sure more of these type of facilities will be opening all over. There’s prime commercial space right on Park Ave that could be utilize for this type of facility. The city holds the winning hand in this game with JFK and they need to start acting like it. let the tax office do their job, calculate the taxes and start taxing JFK like any other property owner. Please don’t forget to issue citations for upkeep as well. City Council, show the voting public that you care about this city more than you care about a greedy corporation trying to get their way through intimidation and bribes.
ReplyDeleteSay NO to JFK and any politician that thinks the best use for that Property is a 600 unit apartment project. That includes Rev Thomas of Shiloh Baptist Church, Jerry Green and anyone else that’s looking to grain financial from JFK’s proposal.
By the way, since Jerry Green is up for re-election this November, the voting community of Plainfield would love and deserver to hear from him BEFORE NOVEMBER 5, 2013 on what he feels the best use of that property would be.
RCH
If the recommendation was to put in Hazardous Waste Laboratory on the campus, would the Council listen? Heck no, so the study is just an exercise in paying a consultant [with connections] to give a pie in the sky, which no entity will be able to deliver on and it will become another in the list of: Mack Truck, National Starch, Howell Electric, EPaul, Stand Theater, Macy's .....
ReplyDelete