Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The developer entered into a contract to purchase the 473-acre late last year.
Holmdel Township officially named Somerset Development as the redeveloper of the 473-acre Alcatel-Lucent site, according to a press release issued by the company on Wednesday. The designation allows the township and and the company to enter into an official redevelopers agreement on the Crawfords Corner Road site pursuant to the Redevelopment Plan adopted in May 2012. Somerset Development entered into a contract with Alcatel-Lucent for the former Bell Labs property late last year. The deal has not closed yet, according to a publicist for the developer. The company's development plan for the site calls for the transformation of the building’s existing Atrium into a public “promenade” and the incorporation of a various mixed uses for the …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Township Administrator Andy Katz told the large group of seniors that there is solid progress in plans for development of Alcatel-Lucent tract.
At a well-attended meeting Tueday with the Holmdel Half Century Club, Township Administrator Andrew Katz said that the township's financial situation is improving at a better than expected pace. Katz said that township officials expect to reach a point of long-term sustainability within 2-3 years instead of 3-5 years. The administration is planning to develop a broader tax base, including re-zoning to allow quality businesses along Route 35 and in Holmdel Village. With respect to the 473-acre Lucent property on Crawfords Corner Road, Katz said he is "more than optimistic" about plans for its development. There has been solid progress, he said, adding that the township's Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan has not changed that much. It …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Four out of five elected township officials approve the formal "vision statement" for the huge property, formerly known as Bell Labs.
The construction of up to 40 single family homes and 185 age-restricted townhouses would be allowed at the Alcatel-Lucent property on Crawfords Corner Road and Roberts Road, under the township's new 2012 Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan okayed by the majority of the Township Committee Thursday. Township officials were careful to point out the plan is a broad "vision statement" and not a formal site plan. The present contract buyer, Sterling Oversight LLC, has not presented its concept plan to Holmdel officials yet. Mayor Patrick Impreveduto said that after research, he had come to the realization that the 473-acre property was simply not marketable to developers without the ability to build houses on the highly desirable Holmdel land. "…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The next step to final adoption: the Township Committee will hold a a public hearing on the plan on Thursday.
This article was updated May 15, 11 p.m. The Holmdel Township Planning Board members agreed Tuesday that the proposed 2012 Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan is consistent with the objectives laid out in the township's master plan. Now the document will be sent over to the five elected members of the Township Committee, who will hold the public hearing and vote on its adoption. That meeting will be held at Town Hall at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. This will be the Committee's second attempt to adopt a new vision statement for the 472-acre property, which is currently under contract by Sterling Oversight LLC. An attempt to adopt the plan last December was thwarted by a legal challenge by Alcatel-Lucent. The meeting drew 90 people to Town Hall…
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Planning Board reviews the Township Planner's report, and recommends the Township Committee change the property's designation from an area of rehabilitation to an area of redevelopment.
In the first step towards making the two-million square foot vacant Alcatel-Lucent building more desirable to future developers, the Holmdel Township Planning Board agreed Tuesday to recommend the Township Committee recognize it by state statute as an “area in need of redevelopment.” Currently, the property is classified as "an area in need of rehabilitation." But Township Planner Jennifer Beahm of CME Associates of Howell made a case in an April 26 report that the property easily meets the "Redevelopment" category, and recommended the switch. “The Redevelopment designation provides more opportunity for Holmdel to bring this property back into the community,” she explained in her remarks to the board. It is “step one” in a legal process…
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
A proposal for Elsie Sterling Howard, the contract-buyer for the vast Alcatel-Lucent property on Crawfords Corner Road, from the owner of Holmdel Pre-School.
As redevelopment plans at the Alcatel-Lucent tract unfold, the owner of Holmdel Pre-School on North Beers Street wants to partner with the township to create a revenue-producing education center for young scholars. Director/Owner Debbie Morgan says the idea, which she says she has tried to present to Holmdel's mayor and township administrator, is inspired by requests from her pre-school parents who want more of the academically-challenging environment her school provides. In a poll last week on Holmdel Patch, her school and by extension, educational philosophy, won with 636 votes for "favorite pre-school." "I would like to have more opportunities for young children in our community -- -- for gifted students, for some special needs students…
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Stunning announcement made before huge crowd at public meeting Thursday at the Senior/Community Center.
Alcatel-Lucent says it has signed a purchase agreement with Elsie Sterling Oversight LLC for a mixed-use plan at its huge property on Crawfords Corner Road in Holmdel -- welcome news for a township hurting for revenue. Mayor Patrick Impreveduto broke the news to more than 200 residents who had turned out to a public meeting on Thursday at the Senior/Community Center, many of whom came prepared to spar over unpopular legislation authorizing the sale of treasured open space to close a $2.5 million budget gap. "This is the first time Lucent has hard money down," said Mayor Patrick Impreveduto. "They are very serious buyers. This deal is done. I'm very pleased it is done. And it is going to be done before the end of the year. He added, "Lucent…
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
An unexpected legal action by the owner of the 473-acre property persuades the Township Committee to abandon its vote on the Redevelopment Plan ordinance Tuesday.
At a tense Township Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon attended by an overflow crowd of about 90 people, Mayor Patrick Impreveduto made a surprise announcement that the governing body would scrap its vote to adopt the proposed Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan ordinance after receiving a letter of protest from an Alcatel-Lucent attorney. The mayor also revealed that the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection considers the largely bucolic 473-acre former Bell Labs property on Crawfords Corner Road to be within a sewer service area. He explained that the Township Committee had been working out of the public eye to correct that designation by aligning its zoning with the county Wastewater Management Plan, via the Redevelopment Plan ordinance…
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The Acatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan public hearing, normally scheduled for 7 p.m., has been moved to 1 p.m. on Dec. 20.
The public hearing on the Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan ordinance has been scheduled for 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, Holmdel Township Clerk Maureen Doloughty announced today. Township Committee meetings are typically held at 7 p.m. But because Monday is the first night of Hanukkah, the meeting has been moved to lunchtime. Jews celebrate the first of eight nights of Hanukkah with the lighting of candles at dusk. This week, darkness falls at 4:17 p.m. Business Administrator Andy Katz informed elected township officials today that several people had alerted him to the potential conflict. An effort to move the public hearing to another night did not work out because of the availability of the township professionals, he said. "It was a …
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The public hearing on the proposed Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment Plan is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20.
Like many of us who have mortgages and college tuition bills to pay, I will dutifully head to work on Tuesday, December 20, and miss arguably the most important public hearing to take place in Holmdel over the last sixty years. That’s a shame, since I have been following the “ups and downs” of the Lucent drama for about five years now, and after reading the revised plan over the weekend, I had a few questions that I would like the Township Committee to consider: 1) What is the true economic impact of the Redevelopment Plan? At its heart, the Redevelopment Plan is essentially a proposal to change the existing zoning at the Alcatel Lucent site to provide other types of development that (according to the plan’s goals) make the area …
Ivan Putski
7:46 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Wouldn't it be easier for you to just head down middle road from your place in hazdel and get on 117? I think you are just bored and like to get yourself all worked up and feel important. more ›