Kathleen A. Donovan is Bergen County executive.
AMID a stability discouraging mercantile times in Bergen County and New Jersey, one of a few rays of fever has been a awaiting of a neighbors of a past 25 years, LG Electronics, building a new North American domicile campus that would strengthen and supplement hundreds of jobs, secure millions of taxation dollars for a segment and make us home to one of a many environmentally modernized buildings in a United States.
Now, all that is during risk since of boisterous and well-funded objectors to a unsubstantiated impact of a building on their perspective from a other side of a river.
I know that LG is listening delicately to views of these New York groups and is deliberation a options, including probable changes to a pattern of a building. But while those discussions are holding place, we wish to be certain that a interests of Bergen County and a residents are being listened and understood.
To benefit accede for a construction of a new headquarters, LG spent dual years going by a really pure process, involving 6 open hearings and a lot of conference with residents and adjacent organizations such as a Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Points were made, LG listened and changes were done to a design. It seemed that all of a internal concerns had been met. Then during a 11th hour, only before Christmas, high-powered New York interests seemed out of nowhere voicing concerns about a perspective from a other side of a Hudson.
Well here’s a perspective from this side of a river.
We need a jobs, we need a investment, we need a taxation dollars. We need longtime friends like LG to sojourn committed to a county and state.
The LG domicile plan offers hundreds of new construction jobs, retains hundreds of existent jobs and allows a association to almost enhance a workforce over a entrance years. The mercantile advantages to Englewood Cliffs and Bergen would be welcome.
This implausible new immature plan shows LG’s loyalty to New Jersey, and confirms a standing as a business-friendly state. And, lest we forget, LG is not receiving any supervision incentives for this $300 million project.
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