[Coleus]

When the Democrats are in control in NJ, it's OK to pave over wetlands.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Clemenza]

Puts me in mind of the old Olivia Newton John Movie and song.

I like the charming swamp that greets me when my train pulls out of the hudson river tunnel. Its like the everglades without palms, alligators or charm...

[qam1]

At issue is a sprawling office, retail, and entertainment complex. The Mills Corp. and Mack-Cali Realty plan 2 million square feet of office space and 600,000 square feet of stores around the East Rutherford arena, including a 20-story artificial ski slope, a culinary institute, a luxury spa, and a minor league baseball park. As part of the deal, Mills would preserve the 600-acre Empire Tract in Carlstadt, where it had been trying to build another mall against the bitter opposition of environmental groups.

Living in the area, I am fine with everything (What happened with the NASCAR racetrack that was also suppose to go there?) except the mall(s). Mill Creek Mall can't be more than 2 miles away (plus it's in Essex County where it can be open on Sunday where a future mall at the Meadowlands in Bergen can't) and the Garden State Plaza and Bergen county malls are within 5 miles and you could sort of count the Park Avenue strip in the town of Rutherford as an outdoor mall so with all these malls nearby I can't see any good reason to put another monstrous one up.

[Sam the Sham]

What a relief. Heaven knows Bergen County, NJ is desparately short of malls. How good to know one more will be built. </sarcasm>

After all, it will be so far away from the huge outlet stores mall complex in Secaucus and the existing strip and enclosed malls up Route 17.