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Fanwood New Jersey
Fanwood New Jersey

North Avenue Restoration – BID RESULTS

MUNICIPAL BID: North Avenue Restoration BID OPENING: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10 AM Company Name Price American Asphalt & Milling Kearny, NJ $169,357.98 Black Rock Enterprises Old Bridge, NJ $197,733.80 Checchio Paving Scotch Plains, NJ $180,970.92 DLS Contracting Fairfield, NJ $178,924.10 Fischer Contracting Scotch Plains, NJ $1165,948.02 JA Alexander Bloomfield, NJ $159,399.99 Apparent ...

October 31st, 2017|

Fanwood Awarded Grant for Historic Restoration and Preservation

Some of the most treasured historic sites in Union County will receive a total of $300,000 in matching grants toward restoration work and other upgrades, through the Preserve Union County program. The grant program is funded by the Freeholder Board through the Union County Open Space, Recreation and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. Fanwood has been ...

October 27th, 2017|

Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr Hosts Regional Economic Development Workshop

Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr hosted the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority (NJRA)'s Creative Community Investments workshop attended by business administrators and economic development experts from across the state at the Carriage House on Thursday. The program highlighted Fanwood's award-winning downtown redevelopment endeavors that transformed dilapidated buildings, empty storefronts, neglected properties and unsightly vacant lots into a downtown that is ...

October 27th, 2017|

Redevelopment Seminar in Fanwood

The story of redevelopment in the Borough of Fanwood has become a case study in small-town transit-oriented-development. Spurning the traditional approach of having a single developer work with local government to assemble properties through eminent domain, Fanwood worked hand-in-hand with local property owners to create a cohesive and updated downtown. This approach empowered the local ...

October 26th, 2017|

Fanwood 5K and Family Fun Run was a success!

It was like a summer day, temperature in the 80's and a slight breeze greeting several hundred participants in this year's Fanwood 5K and Family Fun Run Saturday, October 21, 2017. It was an afternoon event for the first time, but the route was the same and the enthusiasm among the runners was contagious. The ...

October 23rd, 2017|

Gas Main Replacements in Fanwood

Gas line replacement work is continuing in Fanwood, working in the northeast quadrant roughly bounded by Martine Ave. and Westfield Rd., Woodland and Portland Avenues (see map linked below). On the streets that are marked red, Elizabethtown Gas will be replacing the main that runs the length of that street, then running new service lines ...

October 19th, 2017|

North Avenue Resurfacing, Phase 1 – NOTICE TO BIDDERS

A NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed Bid Packets will be received by the Borough of Fanwood, County of Union, State of New Jersey on OCTOBER 31, 2017 at 10:00 AM prevailing time at Borough Hall, 75 North Martine Avenue, Fanwood, New Jersey 07023 at which time and place the Bid Packets will be publicly ...

October 19th, 2017|

Vigil for Peace: Remembering the Las Vegas Shooting Victims

Residents of Fanwood and Scotch Plains gathered Friday night, Oct. 6, 2017, in the meditation garden of the Dhammakaya Temple on Midway Avenue in Fanwood for a vigil of remembrance for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Mayor Colleen Mahr hosted the event, which featured a poetry reading by Fanwood poet Tom Plante, a ...

October 7th, 2017|

Fanwood’s First Home-Based Business Reception

Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr and Economic Development Director Liz Jeffrey hosted an informative round-table for Fanwood’s home-based businesses on Thursday, September 28th. The informal gathering, inside Fanwood’s historic Carriage House on Watson Road, was a networking opportunity for the town’s sometimes hidden entrepreneurs. About 20 business owners enjoyed wine and cheese and heard Jeffrey run ...

October 3rd, 2017|