Congressman Pledges to Help Montclair Acquire Social Security Building
Mayor Robert Jackson said he didn't want the vacant building to be used as a homeless shelter and hoped 'more visionary heads prevail.'
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11) stopped by Montclair’s municipal building on Monday and told local officials he will do everything he can to help the township acquire the former Social Security Office Building sitting vacant on Bloomfield Avenue. “You want the building and we’ll see what we can do to get it. ... It is a pivotal building,” said Frelinghuysen to Montclair Mayor Robert Jackson, First Ward Councilor William Hurlock and Township Manager Marc Dashield in the mayor’s office Monday. The fate of the Social Security building, located in the heart of Montclair's business district at 386 Bloomfield Ave., has been been an ongoing debate since it was determined to be “surplus” property by the federal government on Jan. 18. In …
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jim
9:07 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Weren't we about to sell off our Bellevue Library, and a couple of schools awhile back? Now we can afford to by a building we don't need just because it's available? Same old nonsense. God forbid we let the tax payers breath for a year. more ›