Redevelopment

"The 375 new apartments will add approximately 1,000 new residents, most of whom will have cars," Maia Davis says.

After the Planning Board suggested zoning changes decreasing allowable building heights from six stories to four on Bloomfield Avenue to be in line with the township’s master plan, the Township Council and its Economic Development Committee rejected them.

Plans to transform a Glenridge Avenue property into an arts and entertainment space with six residences have been stalled for over two years, the owners say.

New plans for the redevelopment of Lackawanna Plaza will call for more density and height than a previous proposal that nearly 200 residents unsuccessfully fought in court, but also larger setbacks and more green and community space, developer David Placek said.

After two years on the market, Trumpets Jazz Club has sold.

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.

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For more than four decades, the scarcity of affordable housing has been a hot issue in Montclair.

Bijou has closed the sale on the 0.832-acre Church Street property. 

A developer seeking to subdivide a lot bounded by High Street and Nishuane Road into three lots will instead divide it into two.