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| Groundbreaking on the project in Jan. 2013 |
The retail-housing unit project, which has been plagued
by delays since it was first announced, was delayed again in recent weeks,
developers told the TC, due to an environmental clean-up of a former gas tank
area.
One of the developers said delays had occurred due to
an “environmental concern that required some engineering with regard to an area
where there was a tank at one point in time.”
But they added that the property had been cleaned and
was awaiting state DEP approval.
Mayor Vic DeLuca, who had been critical of the development
in the past when it was delayed in obtaining certain permits, said the Township
had received a letter on Tuesday from the developers indicating cement would begin
being poured this week.
He asked the developers to return on Sept. 16 for a
status update.
When the developer’s attorney asked if they could skip
that meeting if everything was going as planned, the mayor suggested that would
be possible, but only if the project was clearly on target.
“If we feel there’s no questions we can cancel the appearance,”
the mayor said. “If we see it up in the air, we see it there, we see a roof there, we
see things happening then we can chill out; honestly, we have to keep this project
on a short leash.”
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