Friday, November 9, 2012
The Haddon Avenue corner store is too infrequently open at a prime retail location for the borough to allow the site to continue underperforming, Mayor James Maley said.
Perhaps the biggest announcement to come out of the borough commissioners meeting Monday night was the first reading of local ordinance 1529: “Authorizing the Acquisition of Real Property Located at 741 Haddon Ave.”—better known as National Food Market. The corner store, which is best known in town for its infrequent hours of operation and as a repository for lottery tickets, also has had “a whole host of health code violations,” said Collingswood Mayor James Maley at the meeting. In short, he said, the borough just isn’t getting its money’s worth out of the property. “It’s no good for the rest of the block or the rest of the neighborhood. It’s closed most of the time; when it is open, it’s selling lottery tickets,” Maley said. “We really …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Conflicting versions of a plan for the LumberYard build-out led to an agenda item being tabled at Monday's meeting.
When it became clear that the Collingswood Planning Board was looking at two versions of a borough ordinance involving the next phase of the LumberYard build-out, chairman James Verzella knew he needed to call a time-out Monday. “I have a hard time accepting material changes to a plan without being able to see the impacts of what it was before and what it is now,” Verzella said at the meeting. “I know there might be a concern because there are deadlines, but you can’t make a mistake on something like this." After a brief recess, the body decided to reconvene for a special session Monday, July 16. The proposed changes would have increased the height of the new construction from a three to a five-story building with recessed upper floors, …
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Monday, June 4, 2012
No one was harmed in the incident, but two eyewitnesses ask, "What if it had happened during May Fair?"
“It sounded like the worst car accident ever,” said Louis Alberta, describing the noise that woke him at quarter after four in the morning last Wednesday. Alberta, who owns Bauhaus Hair Design Studio, looked out the window of his Haddon Avenue apartment atop Healthworks Market and saw “a huge pile of rubble on the ground”—remnants of the façade of the old TD Bank building at 765 Haddon Ave. He called the non-emergency services number, and watched as police and firefighters arrived on the scene. “I’m sure nothing like that’s ever happened in this town before,” he says. “I could hear the cops saying ‘how did this happen?’” Healthworks owner Rick Guerriero says he saw another piece of the façade fall when he came into the shop that morning. “…
Thursday, March 22, 2012
A Collingswood official confirms employees of the ex-property manager lacked sufficient work papers. In the time since their layoffs, environmental conditions have worsened, residents say.
Concerns about living conditions at the Heights of Collingswood apartments were complicated by the layoff of a cleaning crew that did not have sufficient work documentation, a borough official confirmed today. Collingswood Zoning, Code Enforcement and Health Officer Mary Ellen Ries said the employees in question had been hired by the previous property management company, Audubon Communities Management, and not Greystar, the current manager. "There were porters and staff that did not have the proper documentation for immigration, and therefore had to be let go," Ries said. "In this occurring, there were some serious trash disposal issues and property maintenance issues that the borough has been dealing with with the property." Greystar …
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Charles Montgomery
9:33 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
I don't think that's a legal possibility in Collingswood due to the issues with Knight Park. At least that's my understanding of why Collingswood can't go wet. more ›