Senior housing plan pitched in Ridgewood
Thursday June 6, 2013, 2:04 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
A developer’s proposal presented at Wednesday’s Ridgewood Council meeting could bring an assisted living community to the Central Business District as well as a public parking facility that will add at least 100 new spaces to the downtown.
Partners at Kensington Senior Development, based in White Plains, N.Y., outlined a preliminary draft of their plan to redevelop the municipal parking lot area at the Franklin Avenue and North Walnut Street intersection. At that spot, the development team hopes to build three floors to accommodate 88 assisted living units and approximately 3,000 square feet of street-level retail space.
The third component of the idea is one of the biggest eye catchers: Kensington has offered to fully fund the construction of a two-level, 180-space parking garage adjacent to the assisted living building. According to Harley Cook, one of the firm’s founders, the cost to build the garage amounts to $4.5 million.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/210439591_Senior_housing_plan_pitched_in_Ridgewood.html
so now we won’t need all those other developments for the aging population of Ridgewood.
The proposed structure would be 6 stories tall.
According to the developer’s representative, 44 parking spaces would be required to support the facility (86 rooms, the number of full time and/or part time employees was not revealed). Net gain in parking could be 60 or could be less depending upon the number of employees at the facility.
A 6 story building would cast quite a shadow in that neighborhood, and also set somewhat of a precedent for those wishing to enlarge or build new structures in the CBD.
Cool. Ridgewood will look like Roosevelt in the Bronx. Old people everywhere crossing the streets…checking out at S&S will take twice as long as they all pay by check and refuse to bag their groceries themselves.
Did I say “cool”? I meant to say it is the shittiest thing I have ever heard of and I fully oppose any six story structure in the CBD that does not involve indoor mountain climbing and laser tag.
so your finally getting your parking garage