Developer asks Glen Rock to rezone land for senior housing
February 12, 2015 Last updated: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 4:35 PM
By Richard De Santa
Staff Writer |
Glen Rock Gazette
A private developer has asked Glen Rock officials to rezone land on Prospect Street to permit a senior citizen apartment complex that has been on the drawing board for two years.
Representatives of Glen Park Village LLC appeared at the Feb. 5 Planning Board work session with advanced schematics for the three-building, 69-unit project, consisting of one- and two-bedroom apartments for occupants 62 and older. The company purchased the land, which is north of the Harristown Road intersection and west of a Ridgewood-owned sewage treatment facility on Prospect Street.
Glen Park Village representatives at the meeting included principal Richard Harrison, attorney David Rutherford and project engineer Tibor Latincsics of Conklin Associates, Ramsey.
Rutherford called the proposed facilities spacious and “very nicely-appointed units,” most with fireplaces and balconies, and with community gathering space and exercise facilities also provided on the ground floor of one of the three buildings. He said surface car parking would be augmented by underground lots beneath two of the buildings.
“We’re very confident that what we’re proposing will address a real need for senior housing” for residents of Glen Rock and nearby communities, Rutherford said.