Orange Road

He wrestles with the pros and cons of the Lackawanna Plaza plan

Planning board members voiced concerns over the four affordable housing units in the project, which they said are not “comparable” in size to the market rate units as required by code.

The developer is proposing that on top of providing parking for the MC Hotel, Valley and Bloom, the BOE and general public, they can add the MC Residences to mix at the Orange Road parking deck.

As Montclair pushes developers to include green energy into their building plans, a question has risen: how long are the developers required to maintain it? 

Planning board member Martin Schwartz, who had spoken out against how the town handled a question over density for a proposed multi-family redevelopment, will still be part of the decision making for that development — the 46-unit MC Residences currently being heard before the planning board.

A developer wants to build a pair of two-family homes on a sliver of vacant land on Orange Road sandwiched between the Willowmere Court apartments and two residences owned by the Mental Health Association of Essex County. 

A father who was stabbed to death by his son had spent the night at his son’s Orange Road apartment in Montclair to “help take care of him,” according to reports provided by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. 

A Montclair man has been arrested for the stabbing death of his father.

Scheduled to open July 18, MC hotel officials are now looking at an August date.

A density issue surrounding a 46-unit apartment building proposed for Ferrara’s Auto Body property on Orange Road will be decided by either the zoning board or the council.