Seymour Street redevelopment

When two stop signs were installed last week on Glenridge Avenue at the corner of North Willow Street in Montclair, some residents and shop owners rejoiced. 

The Wellmont Arts Plaza Grand Opening and Fall Bazaar will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The public art has been erected in the pedestrian plaza — a mural and a sculpture.

The Seymour Street parking deck operators received a certificate of occupancy for the new South Fullerton Deck from the township on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and expected to open them by week’s end.

Businesses dependent on parking at Montclair’s Midtown lot got a small reprieve before the lot’s impending closure for a yeast of reconstruction, officials said Monday, Jan. 4. 

The Seymour Street project next to the Wellmont Theater, with its promise to make Montclair an even bigger cultural destination than it already is, is set to open in early winter after two years of construction. 

Vanguard Theater Company is renovating the second floor of 180 Bloomfield Ave., the Old Mogul Theatre, for its new home.

For residents living in the wake of Montclair’s ongoing development boom, their days are filled with incessant noise, blocked access to homes and driveways, and the smell of idling diesel trucks that also take up precious parking spots, and trash-strewn streets.

Is the development boom in Montclair going to bring a sizable number of new students into the district, which, in turn, could create a need for more facilities?

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news The promise is that the new mixed-use development next to the Wellmont Theater will help make Montclair an even bigger cultural destination than it already is and also create much-needed parking relief for residents. Whe...