BERGEN: Fair Lawn, Tenafly, Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Teaneck, & Bergenfield - The Home Team

More than ever, North Jersey towns need their accounting firms, doctors' offices, retail stores and pizzerias for the property tax revenue they generate, and they're doing what they can to help them stay in business.

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InvestNJ Business Grant Program

To help New Jersey businesses face the fiscal challenges of the current national economic crisis, Governor Jon S. Corzine signed legislation creating the Invest NJ Program. The bill, A3294/S6 (December 9, 2008), establishes the program within the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and authorizes $120 million in grants to stimulate capital investment and job creation in the Garden State for a two-year period.

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22-60 Broadway
Redevelopment of Hyway Theater property by the Broadway Medical Group, LLC

The applicant has filed with the Fair Lawn Planning Board for site plan approval to renovate the existing building and off-street parking to accommodate a mixed-use of medical and general offices, and retail establishments.

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Broadway Gateway Signage

Please tell us what you think!

The Broadway Improvement District is considering a new gateway signage program that welcomes and informs those traveling into and through the Broadway district.

The design of the sign explores the use of ‘Broadway’ as a potential ‘branding’ strategy taking into account Fair Lawn’s only cinema (the Hy-way Theater) and hotel (the ‘new’ Hyatt Place) and builds on a number of district eateries such as Rose’s Place and Campania Restaurant.

While we continue to explore how best to strengthen and market the district to existing and new customers, please take a moment to give us your thoughts about the design that you see here.

Please contact Don Smartt, District Administrator at info@broadwaysid.com.

Bob Beshlian, President
Broadway Improvement Corporation.

Broadway Vision Plan

The Broadway Improvement Corporation presented the completed Broadway Vision Plan prepared by H2M and Urbana Consulting, LLC and delivered in November, 2008 to the elected officials of Fair Lawn (January, 2009) and Elmwood Park (February, 2009). Each Borough Council was asked to forward the plan to their respective Planning Boards to review and assess the recommendations within the plan for their impact within ecah of the respective municipalities. BIC representatives will meet with the Planning Boards to answer any questions that may arise.

The plan, which the BIC represents a 'master plan' for the improvement of Broadway Commercial District shared by Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park. The plan evaluates issues and opportunities on Broadway and provides a comprehensive vision for the future of the entire corridor. Funding for the report was provided by the Broadway Improvement Corporation, New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of NY/NJ.

The report was first presented at a meeting of Broadway's Commercial Property Owner/Business Owner's held on June 26, 2008 at the Warren Point School.

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"A Partnership Will Help Your Businesses Prosper"

Fair Lawn Mayor Steven Weinstein believes public/private partnerships between municipalities and their commercial districts benefit entire communities through shared goals.

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Fair Lawn Business Recipient of the
Improvement & Modernization Loan

Facelifts for Facades, Sign & Awning

Among Elements on the Economic Agenda

Fair Lawn , NJ — January 15, 2008 — An ambitious modernization and revitalization program offered to Fair Lawn businesses has already had a positive impact in this Bergen County town of 31,000 residents.

Sponsored by the Fair Lawn Economic Development Corporation (FLEDC) in cooperation with Columbia Bank and Valley National Bank, the Fair Lawn Improvement and Modernization Loan and Grant Program is helping local business owners in all business zones purchase new equipment and supplies and make physical and aesthetic improvements to their commercial properties. The program offers up to $35,000 that can be paid back over seven years.

Louis Vintaloro (third from right), owner of the Performance Jiu-Jitsu Academy , is pleased to accept a check from the FLEDC as part of its Improvement and Modernization Loan & Grant Program. Vintaloro used the funds to make several interior and exterior improvements. He is joined by (l to r) Darren Lizzack (EDC trustee), Bob Beshlian (BIC chairman), Stuart Hermann (EDC chairman), David Nutt (commercial lending officer, Columbia Bank), and Todd Malkin (EDC trustee).

In its second year of service to the community, the FLEDC has approved the first loan to Performance Jiu-Jitsu Academy on Broadway, which teaches the art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. The results of the loan, according to owner Louis Vintaloro and other FLEDC participants, have been very encouraging. The Academy has made several interior and exterior improvements to better position itself as a professional, highly qualified martial arts facility.

Click here to download the Fair Lawn Improvement & Modernization Loan and Grant Program brochure

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