Business View Magazine | September 2020

246 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 TOTAL TEAM LENDING C O M M I T M E N T Y O U C A N C O U N T O N. SM – Steve Guidette , Market President, Commercial Lending for New Jersey 201.725.5967 LOCAL LOAN DECISION MAKING FOR LOCAL NJ BUSINESSES. www.Provident.Bank tied it all together,” he states, “and slowly but surely, one project after the next, we’re building a charming and quaint downtown.” And the town continues to work on that image. Last year, Denville built a decorative wall around one of its downtown parking lots, and this year, it added green picnic tables along the wall. “The people liked it so much that we’re going to keep them there,” Andes says. In addition, because restaurants were shuttered in response to COVID-19, and since Broadway is still wide enough, the town allowed its downtown restaurants to extend their seating into the street’s parking spaces. “You can’t eat inside, but they have sidewalk cafés with places to eat outside,” he adds. “We want to be the town that the families come to - nice shops and nice dining.” Regarding places for those families to live, Andes reports that while the town is mostly built-out, there is some redevelopment taking