Friday, December 13, 2013

Landmark Advancing Two Projects

Two Landmark projects are nearing construction, company Planner and Assistant Project Manager Gabriel Bailer confirmed Friday.

Bloggers had noticed new fences on parking lots at the sites, both on corners at East Second Street and Gavett Place. One is the former Mirons Furniture warehouse and the other includes the former Romond Jeep Garage and a shuttered car rental business.

Landmark Developer Frank Cretella plans to rehabilitate the former furniture warehouse for 12 apartments. In a 2000 redevelopment plan, the building was to be demolished to make way for 96 residential units, but in 2010 Cretella received approval to rehabilitate it instead. On a long list of proposed Landmark projects, the warehouse is known as Gavett Place Properties LLC. See Plaintalker's 2010 post here.

Gavett Place is between East Second Street and North Avenue, across from the main train station in the North Avenue Commercial Historic District. Across from the Mirons building, Cretella plans Arts Loft I, with three stories added to the two-story Romonds building. It will have retail space on the first floor and 20 apartments above. Proposed in 2009, Arts Loft I received approvals in 2011.

Cretella has other projects on North Avenue and entrepreneur Mario Camino also has plans for North Avenue. In 2005, the McWilliams administration had a roster of more than a dozen redevelopment proposals, and Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs added a few more, but the recession and other factors stalled many projects. If the pace is indeed picking up, Plaintalker looks forward to reporting on the projects' progress.

--Bernice

2 comments:

  1. Where are all the new tenants going to park? At 2 cars per unit plus a few extra for visitor parking is there a new parking deck going up?

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  2. It will be exciting to see one of the older buildings in a high visibility area get a facelift and become a useful part of the cityscape.
    It will be nice watching a building progress to usefulness instead of the usual progress to decrepit in downtown Plainfield... how about the other commercial / mixed use properties in Downtown dear city inspectors ??? Any progress on the other buildings that are slowly collapsing ?? ( I know... can't find the owners )

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