Business View Magazine | May 2019

211 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2019 and Education Center located in a restored WWII warehouse, containing an extensive literary and video collection. Events include air shows and static displays of vintage aircraft. “So, it’s been this little area to spend the day and enjoy things at the Airport,” says Silvers. “There’s also been interest to do another type of military museum, out there. That would be really exciting, because they would be renovating some of the existing historical buildings at the Airport, and that would add to that destination point.” Outside the Airport perimeter is a 300-acre, city-owned industrial park, the Millville Airport Commerce Center. Silvers says there are a couple of pending contracts between the city and developers. “There’s a food processor, a recycling facility, and we’ve had interest from a cold storage facility,” she reports. “The food processor will be coming for site plan approval in May. That could be, at final buildout, a 487,000-sq.- ft. facility.” The Commerce Center is already home to RLS Logistics’ 56-foot tall, 1.6 million- cubic-foot, refrigerated warehouse, which the Newfield, NJ-based company built there in 2014. Silvers adds that the City is also focused on the economic development of its downtown, and that several buildings there have recently changed hands. The old Regional Music building on High Street, which has been vacant since 2016, will soon be repurposed as a Taekwondo Center. “It’s a great thing for High Street and will bring people downtown,” she avers. “It’s right near the Arts Gallery and right near restaurants. There’s also a larger redevelopment project expected at the 500 block of High St. that will be underway, this year. They’ve acquired the property for the project; we’ve seen their renderings, so it’s a matter of putting together the financing and I think we’ll start to see some groundbreaking there, shortly.” Silvers explains that the High Street corridor is located within the city’s 301 census tract, which has been recently designated as one of the country’s 8,700 Federal Opportunity Zones, a new economic development program, created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that aims MI LLV I LLE , NEW JERSEY