From ABC7 NY
| Garfield property owners fear new redevelopment project will force them out |
Plans are moving full steam ahead in Garfield to transform an area around the Passaic Street train station into a modernized transit village with new homes and shops.
However the cost of these visionary blueprints is just too high in the eyes of many longtime residents and business owners, whose properties could be taken by eminent domain to make way for the new redevelopment projeDevect.
“The idea of making this place better is definitely good but what they’re doing is not what I’m agreeing to,” noted Zeeshan Naim who owns ShipRite, a pack and ship business.
“They can do a lot of other alternatives fixing the pavement, fixing the road, cleaning up so they can make the place look good…but just knocking everything out without a good alternative for all the business owners, that’s not a good idea,” Naim added.
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