Monday, March 9, 2009

All Is Quiet

It has now been over a year since we all attended that December town meeting. There is still no news on this project. The borough and the developer remain tight lipped. They both have web sites that are not updated. The Redevelopment Authority has a traffic study (May 2008 – Traffic Planning & Design(TPD) was hired to do preliminary traffic study for the various intersections in the Redevelopment Area. ) The borough has nothing after that meeting in December. Our attorney has tried to reach both and gets no response from either.
This does not anger me it simply leaves in dismay. Why would you build eveyone up then let them just sit there? I know the obviuos, the economy has alot to do with the stall. But, if you have funding available and it's first choice use goes south then why not please use that funding to fix the local roads, like Main Street and that aweful spot on Richmond at the railroad tracks? Why wait for the private developer to do his thing. The last thing the borough did was purchase 5 foot of the Tannery plot, in order to widen Foundry Alley, so widen it already! While thet're at it they might as well change it's name since it won't be a foundry there anymore. Why not call it "Dead Strip Mall Alley"!!!!!