Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Representatives for the shopping center project say Crossroads is unable to purchase any surrounding lands to use as a way to enhance the traffic pattern at the Route 17-287 intersection
A revised plan for the proposed traffic improvements around the Crossroads Town Center shopping complex brought up concerns about existing bus and truck traffic interfering with new shopping center traffic at a continued public hearing on the development plan Monday night. Members of the Planning Board and the public questioned whether or not buses from the Coach, USA bus terminal located inside the International Crossroads property and trucks from a truck stop located at the entrance to the proposed development would interfere too much with newly generated “mall traffic.” A revised traffic plan calls for two entrances to the shopping center, one at Leisure Lane that allows shoppers to pull straight into the complex, passing through the …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Resident sent letter and interactive map to state Department of Transportation citing concerns about shopping center traffic
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Dear Editor, I feel strongly that no one should be allowed to make a profit at the expense of other people's health and safety. My primary concerns with the Crossroads mall proposal have been wondering what toxins will be released into our air and water when the contaminated soil is disturbed by construction, and how many people will be injured or killed due to increased traffic volume (33% according to the developer) and unsafe access to and from the proposed mall. After studying the developer's traffic plans I wrote the following letter to the NJ Dept of Transportation detailing dangers of their plans. Even if traffic volume remained exactly what it currently is the proposed mall access would still put drivers at risk. It was reported …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Meeting with the DOT may lead to coordination with NY on how to change the weave at the intersection of Routes 17, 287 and 87
The plan for road construction around the proposed Crossroads shopping center development will change, after representatives from the township and the Crossroads developer met with the NJ Department of Transportation late last month, Crossroads attorney Jim Jaworski said at a Planning Board hearing Monday night. Crossroads traffic engineer Daniel Disario will be adding “substantive changes” to the traffic plan based on DOT suggestions, Jaworski said. Though he did not go into detail about what exactly those changes will be, he mentioned some of the DOT’s concerns, including adding additional entrance points to the shopping center. The current plan only calls for one entrance. According to township engineer Mike Kelly, the DOT is also aware…
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Experts also say the shopping center will produce a smaller potential for flooding than the undeveloped site does currently
The environmental issues present at the former Ford plant site should not prohibit the Crossroads developer from building a 600,000 square-foot shopping center there, according to Robert Crespi, the developer’s environmental expert. During his testimony Monday night at the ongoing Crossroads public hearing in front of Mahwah’s planning board, Crespi said, “The current status of the soil and ground water should not interfere at all with the development of the site.” Crespi gave an overview of his analysis of 20 documents relating to Ford’s clean up and decontamination of the Crossroads property. According to Crespi, Ford removed over 200 tons of contaminated soil from the site in the 1980s and is monitoring ground water contamination …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Comment with specific stores you'd like to see in Mahwah
At the ongoing public hearings on the Crossroads Town Center, a 600,000-square-foot retail development surrounding the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel, the topic of what types of retailers will fill the development has been hotly debated amongst residents, government officials and the developer. Crossroads Developers and Garden Commercial, the companies developing the shopping complex, say it is designed to house two "big box stores," that are about 150,000-square-feet each, a movie theater, restaurants, smaller boutique shops, and a few larger locations, around 25 and 50,000-square-feet. The developer says no specific tenants have been secured for any of the potential locations. So, Patch is wondering, what types of stores would you like to see? …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Board questions past, future environmental cleanup of site, which used to house Ford plant
A 600,000-sq.-ft. shopping development that includes a series of small shops, a movie theater and two box stores is the ‘worst case scenario,’ Crossroads developer Tony DiGiovanni testified Monday night at the continuation of a public hearing on the Crossroads Town Center. DiGiovanni told Mahwah’s planning board and about 60 residents in the crowd Monday night that the layout being presented at the hearing – with a 20-acre parcel of land on one side of Mahwah's Sheraton Crossroads Hotel containing smaller shops and a pedestrian corridor, and a 30-acre parcel on the other side of the hotel with two big box stores and one smaller storefront – might change. “During this preliminary hearing we are seeking approval for the worst possible …
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
See proposed layout of 600,000-square-foot development
About 90 residents gathered Monday night to watch the Crossroads Developer make its initial presentation to the township’s planning board in a public hearing on the proposed development that is expected to last at least several months. The developer is planning to build a 600,000-square-foot retail development surrounding the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel off Route 17. At the hearing, civil engineer Michael Junghans began a series of testimonies – which will include others from an architect, traffic expert and planer at future meetings - on behalf of the developer. Junghans laid out a more-detailed presentation of what the “Crossroads Town Center” will look like, and answered questions on the development from township engineers and planners, …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Officials say this is the start to a 'more meaningful' relationship between the township and the college campus
Mahwah’s government will get some free help sifting through the Crossroads mall site plan and application from a Ramapo College environmental assessment class. Last week, Mahwah’s mayor and representatives from the township’s planning board, environmental commission and ‘Sustainable Mahwah’ group met with the class to iron out the details of the agreement. According to a release from the senior year Environmental Studies students, they will be preparing an “Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to explore the socio-economic, ecological, and physical impacts” of the plan for the development of a 750,000 square foot “lifestyle” shopping center at the intersection of Routes 17 and 287. The goal of the project, students say, is to give the …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hearing set to start next Monday
The planning board public hearing on the Crossroads Town Center, a proposed 750,000 square foot retail, hotel and office complex planned for the intersection of Routes 17 and 287 in Mahwah, begins Monday. The proceedings, which are open to the public, are expected to be a long process during which the developer, township engineering and other professionals, and the public will have the chance to address the board about the project. According to Planning Board Attorney Peter Scandariato, the hearing will likely go on Monday, regardless of a judgment decision related to the development Friday. Last October, the board requested the opinion of a Bergen County superior court judge on legal questions surrounding the Crossroads shopping center. …
Monday, November 28, 2011
Vote in this week's Patch Poll
Monday night, Mahwah’s Planning Board is holding a public hearing on the site plan application for the Crossroads Town Center, a 750,000 square-foot development of retail, hotel and office space at the intersection of Routes 17 and 287. In October, Board Lawyer Peter Scandariato sought a declaratory judgment from the state Superior Court to find out whether or not New Jersey's new "time of decision" law is applicable in this case. The law, ratified in May of 2010 but yet untested in New Jersey courts, states that the zoning laws and ordinances in place at the time a developer files a site application are the ones to which he or she should be held during the development process. Garden Commercial, the CTC developer, filed its site plan one …
Kevin
10:58 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I would also like to hear from of member of the DOT at any one of these meetings in the future. I do not trust the the reps from the development when they stand before the board and speak about the meetings the mall reps had with the DOT. more ›