It sounds like a good idea, and in a perfect world it makes a lot of
sense.
But lets be realistic here. This city has not been able to get its
house in order, and this Council has consistently used City owned
property to rearrange the deck chairs on the economic Titanic.
Nothing they have done in 5 years has shown they have the ability to
successfully redevelop anything. Why don't they start small & see if
they have the wherewithal to put an actual plan together to make
Springwood a viable destination where there is none, rather than
giving them more prime property to shove Condos on? Maybe this is
the perfect opportunity to get some volunteers from New Brunswick's
DevCo to offer opinions, since they seem to have a knack for putting
unwanted property back onto the taxrolls & getting it to thrive.
Property will always become available. Heck, once all the year-round
families are forced out the city can choose any one of the grammar
schools to put the new muni complex on.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Since this was just brought up in a previous post and I wanted to
> gauge your opinions anyway, please let me know your thoughts.
>
> In the Springwood Avenue Advisory Committee we are obviously
> considering many options. Let me be clear that right now there is
> mixed use of everything being considered: Stores, housing, rec,
etc.
>
> One idea in the mix is to build a new state of the art municipal
> complex on Springwood to house City Hall, Police Department and
Fire
> Department.
>
> The experience Cookman has shown is that it is still very
difficult
> to bring people to AP to shop because of the the safety factor
(even
> though it is safe as anywhere else. I had 2 calls this week from
> Monmouth people as to whether it was safe to come to my office).
>
> If we are still trying to convince them that Downtown is safe, we
> are light years from convincing them shopping on Springwood is
safe.
>
> It seems to me that putting the Municipal complex on Springwood
> would not only make it feel safer due to the police being there,
but
> it will create automatic foot traffic of hundreds of people a day
> down there between workers and people doing business with the
City.
> It can be an instant anchor for whatever stores we can build there
> near it.
>
> It will also open up 3 blocks of prime main street that the City
is
> on now to be developed (stores, parking garage, walkway to
downtown,
> etc).
>
>
> What are your thoughts in this regard?
>
> Thanks
>
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