Business View Magazine | October 2020

392 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 We Create the Future. Lyndhurst Office 34 Park Ave, P.O. Box 426 Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 201-939-8805 Mountainside Office 200 Central Avenue, Suite 102 Mountainside, NJ 07092 201-939-8805 www.negliaengineering.com Construction Management | Landscape Architecture Site Engineering | Surveying Traffic Engineering Planning | Municipal Engineering Pronti says that the industrial district is a good location for trucking and warehousing. “The area was completely depleted for 20 years,” he reports. “Slowly, there were a few signs of life. Most recently, we hired a group to come in to redevelop it; they have big plans to make that a warehouse hub for trucking and storage. And our main goal is to keep the trucks in that area without interfering with our residential area. We have quite a few projects on the horizon that are going to re-route roads to keep the congestion to a minimum, while increasing our tax revenue. And we’ve been successful in doing that. Over the past four years, our municipal taxes have shown a zero percent increase for our homeowners. We were able to do that by attracting the right businesses into town.” North Arlington is also paying attention to its infrastructure needs. “The local water company and gas companies are redoing many of the service lines into the homes,” Pronti says. “That is an upgrade that they are paying for. We have temporarily suspended our road paving projects around that work, so we didn’t have our newly-paved roads being torn up by the utility companies. This autumn, we will begin our paving, so we will be seeing much better roadways and much less reason to dig them up, afterward.” In addition, the Borough has a tree planting program that Pronti says was established as a response to the devastation of its tree canopy over the last several years due to hurricanes. “We suffered the loss of much or our greenery in town,” he notes, “and we also had previous administrations that would cut down trees and allow people to pave in front of their houses. We’ve taken many strides to change that approach; we planted over 500 trees in the past five years in our town. Unfortunately, we lost a few earlier this year, when we endured a windstorm and lost 22 trees. We do have plans to replace them, as well and that’s a big part of our green initiative. We are also looking to put more trees along our riverfront. on the west side