The Monarch condos sales trailer is being dismantled.
The Monarch condos sales trailer is being consigned to dustbin of history.
First I noticed a couple of days ago that the billboard for the sales trailer had been ripped off and was leaning against the side of the new condo building and facing into the Ben Franklin liquor store parking lot.
Then on Tuesday a crew was on the scene dismantled the frou-frous that (somewhat) disguised the fact that the sales trailer was, after all, just a trailer.
The landscaping has never looked anything but bedraggled, sort of like putting on a brave face.
Or whistling while walking past the graveyard?
-- Dan Damon
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What does this MEAN, Dan?? Is the developer giving up, or is it just that the trailer is no longer necessary, since the sales agents now work out of the Monarch building? What's with the mayor suggesting that Dornoch/Fishman/P&F shell company might be declaring bankruptcy?? This is what she said to the seniors last night, I know. What did she know, and when did she know it?
The plot unfolds
They are trying to convince everyone that bankruptcy means no senior center, (this might be true, but it also might be a ploy similar to the rental threat which was the last effort used). This in turn would prevent anyone on the council from voting against the abatement. After all, how could anyone deny the seniors a new center?
The real issue now is that they are going to bring the issue up for a vote on Monday. If no one has seen the signed original contract between the city and the developer by then, the vote could be based on hearsay and falsehoods.
Open records and the truth, versus back room deals and lies. Get as many people at that meeting on Monday as possible so that they all have to cast a vote under the scrutiny of the voters.
I think this whole Monarch mess is a good reason not to vote for Robinson-Briggs in November. Most Plainfielders knew from the beginning that people would not purchase a condo on East Front street and not for the $300,000 per unit that was first posted and reducing the price by 40,000 or 50,000 won't help. It's hard to get people outside of Plainfield to by nice houses in nice neighborhoods and this would be a very hard sell. I can't believe the administration didn't see this, but after dealing with them over the past 18 months, I'm not surprised at anything.
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