Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Both properties are located in Charles Wood Area
Close to 300 new homes could be built in nearby northern Tinton Falls, just over the Red Bank border, once developers are chosen to purchase two tracts of land in the borough's section of Fort Monmouth. The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) recently issued requests for offers to purchase (RFOTP) two properties located in the Charles Wood Area of Fort Monmouth. Parcel C is 39-acre site slated for 239 homes and 107,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. The property is a former residential area that has been demolished and is bordered by Tinton Avenue, Pearl Harbor Road and Corregidor Road. It contains the former Post Chapel, which would be demolished by the purchaser. Parcel C1 is a 12-acre site slated for 49 …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
County says it hopes to open the facility in the spring of 2013.
Dormant now for more than a year, Fort Monmouth's Teen Center and its pool in Tinton Falls will see new life next year under the ownership of Monmouth County. This week the Fort Monmouth Economic Revilatization Authority approved the transfer of the property to the county under a Notice of Interest program, where the Army conveys a property to an entity at no cost, for the good of the public. Freeholder Lillian Burry, who is a member of the board of FMERA, thanked the board for its approval of the NOI and said the facility will be regional. "We're anxious to have it opened and functioning in late spring," she said. Though the county won't pay for the property directly, it will come with costs. As part of FMERA's developer agreement with …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
In a later interview, Rep. Declan O'Scanlon clarified his earlier remarks about the role proximity will play in selecting who gets into Fort Monmouth housing.
(see bolded text for update) State Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon today clarified a statement that came from the governor's office Monday night, regarding housing for displaced Sandy victims. According to O'Scanlon, the Sandy housing units at Fort Monmouth will all be temporary and will initially total 180 (this includes the 45 currently being prepared for move in on Dec. 20). O'Scanlon told Patch this includes 42 units on Megill Drive in Eatontown and 130 in the lodge area of Oceanport (pictured here), "give or take 10 units." "That might be able to be expanded by another couple of hundred units if the need arises," he said, adding that the expansion would come in the lodge area. All units would only be available for about 18 months. O'…
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Economic Revitalization Authority enters lease with Army for office space on fort property
What began as a routine approval of a short term lease agreement with the Army for office space on Fort Monmouth property turned into a protracted discussion of transparency Wednesday night. The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority moved to approve a lease agreement that would turn the former post library into office and meeting space for the local redevelopment authority. But when Eatontown resident Bob English asked about the security plan for public access when the revitalization authority holds its public meetings there, he touched off a hot button issue for many who wonder, as one resident put it, "what is happening behind the curtain." Shrouded in confidential real estate dealings and state government processes that differ…
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The redevelopment team rebuts recent reports that Brookdale will acquire Armstrong Hall for a dollar.
A report last week that Brookdale Community College was interested in acquiring a building on Fort Monmouth triggered a flurry of excitement among local officials and political candidates. It wasn't the college's interest in Armstrong Hall that had everyone buzzing though, it was that the report incorrrectly stated that BCC would get it for $1. According to the head of the fort's redevelopment authority, that's not going to happen. The director of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) — charged with overseeing requests like this for the Army-owned property — acknowledged that his group was in talks with BCC, but said the report that the deal could be had for $1 was off the mark. "The Army is requiring fair market …
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2:58 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
And how much of a broker fee will Lillian Burry yield? Mrs. Birdsall was Burry's campaign manager...doesn't anybody else see what Madame Freeholder is doing? Wake up folks! more ›