Monday's agenda includes discussion of possible conveyance of two city-owned lots targeted last year for very diverse development proposals.
The agenda-fixing session is 7:30 Monday in Municipal Court.
The Housing Authority of Plainfield and related entities proposed 86 apartments on the two lots, on a block bounded by Madison Avenue, West Second Street, Central Avenue and West Front Street. Developer Frank Cretella outlined plans for a "green market center comprising of a food incubator, a brew pub and artisanal distillery."
Neither plan got as far as applying to any land use boards, most likely because the city owns the lots.
See Plaintalker's October post on the Housing Authority proposal here
Read about Cretella's concept here
The Housing Authority request for the lots was up for discussion in March, but then dropped from the agenda. Monday's agenda does not state a proposed recipient for the lots.
--Bernice
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If these lots are to be developed, they should be sold to entities that will pay taxes to the City and not blood suckers such as the Plainfield Housing and the Ass Green leaches. We need gentrification and we need it now! Let the leaches sponge off another town.
ReplyDeletethe housing authority should take a backseat to private developers..AND the private developers SHOULD NOT be given a song price and NOT be held responsible to a list of requirements... The city folded like a cheap suit regarding The Monarch on every level... simply a case of a half assed developer with a poor plan to start giving the finger to the city and the city apologizing for making the developer do it.. like watching a kindergarten student run intellectual circles around a teacher...stunning
ReplyDeleteMonarch was friendly with the former Dept. of Public Works Director Jennifer Wenson-Maier. She folded under pressure and the development of a roof top garden became large potted plants. Just how do you think this happened. JWM was in bed with UCIA , ASS Green and DeFillipo. Plainfield suffered from that and they all made money.
DeleteRob, my take on The Monarch was that the developer was trying to step back, but the mayor (SRB) was intent on making the Senior Center and Veterans Center her legacy. Hence the fake one-day "opening" before the 2009 primary. And now we know how that turned out - veterans are still waiting for their space and the condos are two-thirds rentals.
ReplyDeleteWe do not need any more 99 cent section eight units in this city! There is not enough parking now ,and we were promised parking in the garage nights and weekends and the City lied about that. We need to Fill up the empty units that are empty now and clean up the downtown area before greedy developers come and build poor quality units and fill the Democrats pockets and leave us with a mess to clean up. We still have a mess with Teppers and the Monarch that are still not 100 % completed.
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