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Newarkguy1836 t1_j9d2wed wrote

I grew up in that yellow house next to the gas station across the street ! My parents sold it last August to Gomez and was demolished. I still maintain the subtropical banana plants, yucca's and the cold hardy Palms .The Baxter terrorist projects were demolished back in 2007. It is disgusting and a testament to this fraudulent City nothing has been built after phase one of Baxter Park! It's been like this for over 15 years. Why? Because the corrupt city on the land. No private developer would survive this. You either build or sell the land or go bankrupt. The rumor is a company from Philadelphia called Brandywine development( and I don't know it's one of their couple of brandy wines in real estate and none of the websites even mentions Newark!) Went into a deal with the city of Newark to redevelop that land, as well as the former Borden's Milk Factory AKA Peddler Square. Brandywine agreed to rebuild the cities training facilities for fire and police at the West runion Redevelopment. At the site of the former Belmont Elementary School. In return, Brandywine now gets The Peddler Square/ Borden site in a land swap. The original plan was for townhouses and the style of James Street Commons. This was before the Brandywine acquisition. So far, Brandy one has done nothing. I don't even know if Brandywine is still involved. I know Moonlight Cinemas rented the property and a trucking firm rented half the land to store their trailers a year ago. The trucking firm moved to McCarter Highway to a site where a Wawa was supposed to be built.

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