West End Update

From the comments section of the previous thread:

The Wellwood Manor purchase is settled. That building will be relandscaped and restored outside and in with a mind towards its historical character, down to its mosiac tiles, brass mailboxes and original two-piece intercom telephones in the foyers (decorataive, not functional).

You might have noticed already that in the same block as Wellwood Michael's Liquor Store has a new facade and attractive awning to match the one uptown on the PNC building.

Our Boro has agreed to allow the two vacant store fronts between Wellwood and the liquor store to open as a grocery/convenience store. A tenant has already signed a five-year lease for that operation.

Down the street on the other side Pennsauken Twp approved changing the dry cleaning storefront now empty 7 years into a residential apartment. The West End Task Force is working with Pennsauken and the N.J. highway department to block off the end of 43rd Street to make that street into off-street parking for that building.

Sprint has indicated it will include in its next five-year plan the closing off of 42nd Street and rehab of that little (blue) corner shop filled with Sprint electronics as part of a new landscaping design.

Down at the intersection with Rte. 130, the tenant of the yellow brick liquor storage building has expressed to the Task Force that he will erase the grafitti.

The West End Task Force applied for a continuation grant to complete its work in getting the vacant white Kawasaki building leveled and turned into parkland with a NJ Transit bus stop shelter along Rte 130.

Camden City has approved a new commercial zoning plan for the block from the liquor storage building (which the Task Force wants moved away from the intersection) down to the Dental building at Myrtle Ave.

Ragan Design Group is the planner that has worked on these changes for the West End. Ragan is the same planner who prepared Merchantville's Master Plan a few years ago.