Wednesday, October 19, 2011
New website details plans for "lifestyle" shopping center in Mahwah
Garden Commercial, the developer of the Crossroads Town Center shopping complex planned for the intersection of Routes 17 and 287 in Mahwah, launched a website Wednesday aimed at providing “residents of Mahwah with accurate and factual information about the proposed development,” the company said in a release. The website is the beginning of an outreach effort from the developer that will continue in the coming weeks and months, according to Ryan Peene, spokesman for the project. “I think there will be a lot of open, honest communication between residents and Garden because this is really going to become part of the fabric of Mahwah.” The development company’s vice president, Tony DiGiovanni, is asking Mahwah residents to visit the site to…
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
"Time of Application" law has not yet been tested in courts
Mahwah’s Planning Board is seeking a superior court judge’s opinion on legal questions surrounding the Crossroads shopping center. At its Monday night meeting, the board passed a resolution allowing its attorney, Peter Scandariato, to seek a declaratory judgment from the superior court regarding the state’s "time of application" law and it's applicability to the crossroads application. The new law, Scandariato said, says the law in place when a developer submits a site plan is the law that application is subject to. However there has been, "no case law, to my knowledge" to explain how the law should be implemented, he said. Since the developer filed the plan for the “Crossroads Town Center” one day before the town council repealed the …
Monday, October 10, 2011
A month before you will vote on the issue at the polls, vote on this week's Patch poll.
Four weeks from this Tuesday, township residents will vote in a non-binding referendum about their feelings on a 600,000 square-foot shopping plaza that a developer has plans to put at the intersection of Routes 17 and 287 in Mahwah. According to a conversation with the Crossroads Developer earlier this year, the “Crossroads Town Center” will include an additional 175K sq.-feet of office space, and possibly a hotel. The developer said the size of the shopping center would be comparable to that of the Ikea in Paramus, will include one or two box stores and a movie theater, and would be pedestrian-friendly. The town council approved zoning ordinances that re-zoned the land in question to allow for the development this March. After that, a …
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Crossroads Update
Residents looking for closure in the question of whether or not Mahwah will be the future home of a “lifestyle center” shopping mall likely won’t get it for a long time, according to the township’s construction and administrative officer Gary Montroy. “Every step in this is a long process,” that only begun with the Crossroads Developers, LLC submission of a site plan for the shopping center on August 31, one day before the council repealed the zoning ordinances allowing for it, he said. The plan calls for a 750,000 square foot retail, office and hotel complex to be built at the intersection of Routes 17 and 287 in Mahwah. According to Montroy, he deemed the site plan complete on September 6, however it has not yet been fully reviewed for “…
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Council President says adopting an ordinance Thursday is impossible
Thursday night, the town council will hold a special meeting to discuss the moves it made last week to rescind the ordinances that would allow for a mall to be developed on the Crossroads Property off of Routes 17 and 287. Last week, the council approved motions to add a non-binding referendum on the issue to the November ballot, and rescind the three zoning ordinances that would allow for the mall. The council also introduced a new ordinance. An ordinance that essentially reverses the three allowing for the mall would need to be passed if the development process is to be halted. Now, the council is facing a timetable to get this legislation passed before it is too late. “In New Jersey, as soon as a developer files a site plan, the Time of…
Friday, August 12, 2011
Official vote will take place at special meeting August 18
The town council approved a motion to prepare the necessary paperwork to rescind the three zoning ordinances – 1684, 1686, and 1687 – that would have allowed for the building of a 600,000 square-foot retail shopping center near the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel on Route 17. The council also approved a movement to have a non-binding referendum asking how citizens feel about the proposed mall project added to the November ballot. Both movements were made by Councilman John Spiech. Spiech moved to hold a special meeting next Thursday, August 18, at which the finalized ordinances will be voted on. The township attorney, John Conte, Jr., now has until next Thursday to draw up the documents, which will be officially voted on by the council then. …
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Group presents petition to add non-binding referendum to November ballot
A group of the town's residents spoke out against a vote from earlier in the year regarding the controversial Crossroads Mall at Thursday's town council meeting. The Committee To Stop Mahwah Mall, a group of residents suing the township over this issue, presented a petition to the council. The petition is an attempt to get a non-binding referendum asking residents their opinions on the project added to the November ballot. In March, he town council voted down a referendum on the mall three times, and approved, in a 4-2 vote, zoning ordinance changes to allow for the retail shopping center, which would be located in front of the Sheraton Hotel off the intersection of Route 17 South and 287 North. The center would be about 600,000 sq. feet …
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Group will share status of lawsuit against township and ask for volunteer support
The anti-mall group that filed a suit against the township of Mahwah last month is holding a meeting Tuesday night to update the community about its fight to stop a retail center from being built off Route 17N near the Sheraton Hotel. The main purposes of the meeting, according to one of the group’s leaders and founding members, resident Michael Richards, is to update current supporters and corral new ones in the effort to stop the “Crossroads Town Center.” The Committee to Stop Mahwah Mall filed a lawsuit after the Mahwah Town Council approved three zoning ordinance changes that allow for retail space to be developed on the so-called Crossroads land. The current plan is a 750,000 sq. foot project that would include office space, one or …
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Andy Schmidt
10:53 pm on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Then let the people of Ramsey and Rockland find a suitable site that actually IS zoned retail and DOES confirm to their master plan to put this wonderful development. The once or twice a month that I feel the urge to submerge myself in the hustle and bustle of a mall and the annoyance of traffic and parking hassles, then I gladly take 15 minutes and head to one of the malls in Paramus or the … more ›