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Fort Monmouth Redevelopment

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Take a Tour to Get a Peek Inside Fort Monmouth

Next week redevelopers will hold the first of a planned series of tours for the public.

You may have lived within a stone's throw of Fort Monmouth your entire life, and yet never had the opportunity to peak behind the brick and barbed wire. Well, now's your chance. On Jan. 30 the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) will host its first community bus tour of the former Army installation. This is the rescheduled date for a planned November tour which was put off following Hurricane Sandy. The fort saw flooding in about a third of its property. On the upcoming tour, members of the public are invited to see the former post and hear from FMERA staff about the redevelopment effort. Due to the capacity of the buses, tours are limited to 60 members of the public, and seats will be reserved on a first come, first …

Lynn Humphrey

7:58 am on Friday, January 25, 2013

The article says Jan 30 at the beginning, then it says "to sign up for the Jan 31 event" which date is it?   more ›

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Transparency Questioned in Fort Monmouth Redevelopment

Economic Revitalization Authority enters lease with Army for office space on fort property

What began as a routine approval of a short term lease agreement with the Army for office space on Fort Monmouth property turned into a protracted discussion of transparency Wednesday night. The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority moved to approve a lease agreement that would turn the former post library into office and meeting space for the local redevelopment authority. But when Eatontown resident Bob English asked about the security plan for public access when the revitalization authority holds its public meetings there, he touched off a hot button issue for many who wonder, as one resident put it, "what is happening behind the curtain." Shrouded in confidential real estate dealings and state government processes that differ…

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Shannon K. Winning

3:32 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012

Bob - You make a good point. The EDA pr rep has sent me more information on the board's practices. You can look for that story in the near future.   more ›

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