Night Club Owner Proposes Apartments

When I was growing up, my family lived in an apartment building with commercial uses on the ground floor, including a deli, barber shop, and a store with newspapers and magazines, penny candy and a soda fountain.

A legal notice published this week offers the possibility of living over a Plainfield night club.

Edison Garcia, owner of Faraones night club in the former Plainfield National Bank at 111 East Front Street, proposes converting the third and fourth floors to residential apartments.


The matter will be heard at the Planning Board's Dec. 3 meeting, 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library. Garcia needs several variances for the conversion, including one for parking. According to the legal notice, he will provide no parking when 247 spaces are required. The lack of parking is listed as an existing condition, although there is a city parking lot behind the building. The number of spaces listed in the legal notice may be a typo or may be inclusive of all uses. We shall see on Dec. 3.

Documents related to the application are on file in the Planning Division.

Meanwhile, we are still looking for action on the nearby West Second Street Commons, which is another mixed-use development with 12,300 square feet of commercial space at ground level and 148 residential apartments on four upper floors. Click the link to see a chart of all downtown development proposals as of March 2015

--Bernice