| Author | Message | ||
     susan1014 Supporter Username: Susan1014 Post Number: 1751 Registered: 3-2002 |
On Friday, saw the massive crane and actual movement of major steel beams... Since no one else has mentioned it, I thought I would. | ||
| Flying_char Citizen Username: Flying_char Post Number: 195 Registered: 8-2005  |
what are they building? | ||
| peteglider Citizen Username: Peteglider Post Number: 2153 Registered: 8-2002 |
Its the steel panels that were being rammed into the ground prior to excavation. perhaps something is really coming? /p | ||
| Howard Levison Citizen Username: Levisonh Post Number: 673 Registered: 1-2004  |
The question is - have any of the contractual details been completed? >Have the easements been cleared? >Have the properties been transferred? ...If so, how was it structured? .....Split into two sales: .....- Garden Of Eden - food market .....- Sterling - condo's ........If so, is the Pilot still valid? ...If so, has any monies been transferred? | ||
| joel dranove Citizen Username: Jdranove Post Number: 876 Registered: 1-2006 |
Ask the board. Disregard Taylor's order that you not ask questions. Ask. jd | ||
| notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 3717 Registered: 5-2001  |
I am nearly positive that they are constructing a mammoth, permanent "Coming Soon" sign.  | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese  Post Number: 2119 Registered: 7-2004  |
notehead, that is a good guess. I would agree but I think they will put up some beams and then hang a small "coming soon" sign from the half finished beams as construction grinds to a halt on the large permanent signage. | ||
| Lord Pabulum Citizen Username: Lord_pabulum Post Number: 36 Registered: 7-2006  |
Is it a Tony Smith sculpture? | ||
| RBC Citizen Username: Rbcole123 Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2005 |
That site has a huge pit in the middle with a fence surrounding the perimeter of the parking lot. The fence is supposed to be locked but every morning I ride the train to NYC and notice that the gate is wide open. Huge hazard and liability for the owner of the site. | ||
| metfan33 Citizen Username: Metfan33 Post Number: 3 Registered: 7-2006 |
It seems like there's alot of work going on at the Shop Rite and SOPAC. Is the firehouse on deadline? I would like to take my kids by sometime. | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 1706 Registered: 3-2002 |
metfan, I've never been to the SO firehouse, but the folks at the Maplewood station are great & really wonderful with kids | ||
| notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 3719 Registered: 5-2001 |
Looks like McCheese nailed this one. Just heard the announcement that work on the permanent Coming Soon sign has been temporarily halted while the BOT considers approving a $12-million redesign. Apparently, the original plan called for a sturdy, 75-foot tall structure with lettering in 8-point Helvetica at the top. At some point earlier today, somebody realized that this might not be quite visible enough, so between 5:00 and 6:00 this afternoon there will be a $250,000 feasibility study by as-yet-unnamed "experts" to determine whether or not making the lettering 24-point in size will solve this dilemma, which the BOT assures us was quite unpredictable. To allay any fears that the permanent Coming Soon sign will not be coming so soon, a paper "Coming Soon" sign will be hung on it, along with cheerful colored streamers, provided by a brother-in-law of one of the BOT members to the town for the paltry price of $472,000. The BOT assures us that the actual, permanent Coming Soon sign will be "definitely" completed by "Monday, at the very latest, or possibly sometime in 2065." | ||
| MHD Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 4565 Registered: 5-2001  |
No worries, notehead....I heard the sign is a gift. On second thought, I just realized, it is just the rights to make the sign, but it's still a gift. Oh, wait...actually, I just found out that the money is coming from a Grant and won't cost the taxpayers anything. Nevermind, I just heard it was coming from a bond for sidewalk improvements, but don't worry this counts as sidewalk improvements because the sign is near a sidewalk. | ||
| Nancy - LibraryLady Supporter Username: Librarylady Post Number: 3803 Registered: 5-2001  |
Parking Deck. | ||
| joel dranove Citizen Username: Jdranove Post Number: 888 Registered: 1-2006 |
There must have been a miscalculation as to when the next elections will be held. jd | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10507 Registered: 4-1997  |
Apparently the work is "on hold" at this time. | ||
| red_alert Citizen Username: Red_alert Post Number: 323 Registered: 3-2005 |
Are they building an underground tomb for the Tau? | ||
| Soparents Supporter Username: Soparents Post Number: 2682 Registered: 5-2005  |
You are getting close red_alert, it's an escape tunnel for the BOT.. | ||
| red_alert Citizen Username: Red_alert Post Number: 325 Registered: 3-2005 |
Maybe they are digging for oil. With oil prices now-a-days, why not dig and take a shot? It worked for the Beverly Hillbillies. | ||
| MHD Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 4569 Registered: 5-2001 |
Did someone say "Beverly Hillbillies"? Time to revisit a classic MOL thread: /discus/messages/3133/110150.html?1146168707 | ||
| SOrising Citizen Username: Sorising Post Number: 646 Registered: 2-2006 |
Notehead, you started it. Hilarious. LL might be right, though. Alas. | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 3730 Registered: 5-2004  |
Actually, I think they are going to build a Coming Soon sign that can be seen from the space station. We could be known as the Outer Space Town. We could build a space center here, and hope people come to see it. There has got to be an astrophysicist in town, We could dedicate it to him/her. Heck, we could raise money for it, and any leftovers could be used to send Columbia kids to space camp so they can learn what it's like to be an astronaut. | ||
| Daniel I. Goldberg Citizen Username: Dig Post Number: 168 Registered: 8-2004 |
Dave: Please elaborate. | ||
| SOrising Citizen Username: Sorising Post Number: 649 Registered: 2-2006 |
No Rastro, even on the space station, our town is the Incomplete Casino, as SOparents so astutely observed. |
