Business View Magazine | September 2020

284 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 Building Excellence Since 1963 Luxury Apartments • Luxury Homes • Luxury Senior Living Industrial • Office/Retail • Hospitality/Recreation WOODMONT PROPERTIES 100 Passaic Avenue, Suite 240, Fairfield, New Jersey 07004 Tel: 973.316.9400 | Woodmontproperties.com As a multi-disciplined and vertically integrated real estate company, Woodmont Properties employs its internal resources to develop a property from raw land through successful completion. had the legal authority to approve the Redevelopment Plan,” Perry explains. “Nobody else had that. We put it all together and put the thing in motion, and it had to go through us because there was no other way to do it. There needed to be one entity from the governmental side; it’s critically important that one entity be the quarterback But, we have a great relationship with the County, so we’re kind of working as partners in getting this done.” The developer chosen for the project is the Woodmont Company, a commercial real estate firm. “They’ve hired an architectural firm from Maryland, and we’ve had a lengthy meeting with the Department of Environmental Protection to go through it with them,” Perry notes. “With a project near the water, there’s a lot of DEP permitting involved. So, we’re starting the application process with the DEP, very soon. Once we have a complete application, we’ll have a better handle on the time it will take. Realistically, it’s probably a year-plus away