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Letters to the Editor
By MAYOR SHELLEY BRINDLE
May 25, 2022
This week the Town Council voted to approve a redevelopment agreement that would allow for a 60-unit apartment project at Prospect Street and Ferris Place, known as the Sophia, to move forward. The developer must still go to the Planning Board to obtain site plan approval at a future public ...
At the May 10 meeting of the Westfield Town Council residents concerned about the Sophia redevelopment project at the junction of Ferris Place and Prospect Street voiced a number of concerns about its massive scale and its impact on this neighborhood. This 67 unit/acre 4-story apartment building is ...
If you’ve attended a sporting event or perhaps a graduation ceremony at Kehler Stadium, you may have noticed that from a distance the artificial turf field looks nearly identical to the natural grass in the surrounding area. While the artificial turf and natural grass may appear to be the same ...
The Sophia is a beautifully designed building that is supported by the Master Plan, zoning and forward-thinking residents who want to see downtown Westfield revitalized and alive with new people. The Sophia is also supported by current residents who would like to sell their homes someday and move ...
To the Editor: The proposed Sophia apartment building at Prospect Street and Ferris Place is obtrusive and out of scale with its surrounding residential neighborhood. At a height of 50 feet and a footprint of 35,000 square feet, the bulk of the Sophia building would overwhelm the adjacent ...
Change is something that we all must deal with in our personal, business lives and even our residential neighborhoods. At the turn of the century there were two horse racing tracks in town (actual visitor destinations for folks from the metro area that arrived by the then new railroad train line, ...
We are residents in Westfield asking the Town Council to reduce the size and scope of the proposed Sophia apartment development on the corner of Prospect Street & Ferris Place. The proposed four-story development includes 64 apartments and 96 parking spaces on less than one acre of ...
To Mayor Brindle and the Westfield Town Council: I am writing to express my wholehearted support for the position of the Concerned Westfield Citizens for Right-Sizing the Prospect-Ferris Development and to challenge Mayor Brindle and the Town Council to do the right thing: Executing a ...
My wife and I always enjoyed the vitality and energy that the town of Westfield provided. When we sold our home in Scotch Plains 3.5 years ago we decided to move to Westfield and take advantage of all the town had to offer. It has been very discouraging to observe the number of vacant stores and ...
I have had a 52-year career in consulting engineering specializing in traffic and transportation. I am a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers as well as the American Society of Civil Engineers. As a Westfield resident for 50 years, I am proud to have served on the Union County ...
I have lived in Westfield for almost 30 years and lived in Cranford for almost 10 years prior to that. Westfield is a wonderful community and I feel lucky to have been able to settle and raise my family here. Over that time, I have watched Westfield’s downtown reach its peak in the early 2000s, ...
To whom it may concern, I beg your indulgence for a moment to offer a thought about the health of our downtown. I have been a resident of Westfield since I graduated college moving here in the autumn of 1991; basically, my whole adult life. I love and have always loved our community. My ...
I am a Westfield Lifer. I was born here and have been a resident since 1951 I and my family have lived in a residential home on Prospect Street for over 37 years, our family owned and operated a business in Downtown Westfield, The Leader Store for over 65 years. I am very well acquainted with the ...
Editor's Note: This letter has been revised with the author. The crazy proposal to put a four story, 64-unit apartment building on Ferris Place in Westfield would bring a traffic nightmare to Prospect Street and Clark Street. The Prospect St./Ferris Place intersection is already highly ...
I grew up in Cranford, but I live in Westfield now. When I was in my early teens, my friends and l couldn’t wait go to Westfield to walk around town and go to the Rialto Movie Theatre. Downtown Westfield was the place to be; cool stores, coffee shops and the Rialto Movie Theater. We all wished ...
My wife grew up in Westfield and we moved there with our family in 1999. A couple years later I set up my law practice at 114 Elm Street. Our plan is to sell our home and hopefully move into the Sophia when it is completed. I am glad to see the Traffic Study found no issues with the project. I ...
This year marks 50 years I have been a resident of Westfield. My parents settled in Westfield for many of the same reasons others did, and for the same reasons that I continue to live here. Westfield’s downtown, parks, great schools and the close proximity to all that Westfield has to offer, ...
Tamaques, Jefferson and McKinley Elementary school parents, are you aware of what is happening to our south side environment? This Mayor and her administration have devised a scheme to bypass the voters of Westfield. When the BOE attempted to build a lighted sports complex, they had to do it ...
I am writing to voice my concerns, with the hundreds of my fellow residents who have signed a petition, regarding the Prospect/Ferris, 64 unit and 96 car proposed project. We are all extremely troubled by the magnitude in size of this project. How and why did this development grow to such an ...
