[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Demolition of Fort Monmouth's [NJ] Howard Commons delayed"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Demolition of Fort Monmouth's Howard Commons delayed
Eatontown mayor hopes to speed up process

by Larry Higgs
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
November 30, 2013

EATONTOWN - Borough residents may have to look at the dilapidated  
yellow-and-brown homes behind cyclone fencing on Pine Brook Road for  
at least another year or two. The former Fort Monmouth military  
housing at Howard Commons won’t torn down anytime soon, despite a  
desire for its demolition by borough officials and residents.

The 475 units on 64 acres at Howard Commons have been vacant since  
the 1990s, when it was last used as military housing at Fort  
Monmouth. Now, the homes are an eyesore for people who use Pine Brook  
Road and residents of two apartment complexes across the street.

"It’s a blighted area. Kids have to walk down that canyon of blight  
that exists over there," said Eatontown Mayor Gerald Tarantolo. "I'm  
all for rapidly demolishing them."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/article/20131201/NJNEWS/312010033/Demolition-Fort- 
Monmouth-s-Howard-Commons-delayed

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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