Business View Magazine | October 2020

389 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 THE BOROUGH OF NORTH ARL INGTON, NEW JERSEY to strive towards making North Arlington a ‘destination,’– a place where people leave their house to go and not a town that they simply drive through when they’re going somewhere else.” North Arlington’s population is approximately 16,000, most of whom live in the Borough’s single-family homes on both sides of Ridge Road. On the East side of town sits the 208-acre Holy Cross Cemetery, which has interred almost 290,000 individuals since its establishment in 1915, and, with another Jewish cemetery including several thousand more burials, North Arlington has almost 20 times more dead people than living. “The cemetery takes up a very large portion of our town,” says Pronti. “It adds to our charm, if you can imagine a cemetery adding charm, but it’s very well-maintained.” “We’re not trying to over-populate the town, but we are looking to target the right people that will help the success of our businesses,” Pronti