Lakewood Township taking Suggestions for Revitalizating the Downtown

Shalom this is M Weisberg I would just like to inform our of a new initiative that was undertaken by the Lakewood Development Corporation in conjunction with Lakewood Township to revitalize the downtown area the Clifton Avenue area from 6th Street uh down to Main Street this area has suffered um from neglect and and uh competition from other shopping areas in town and um right now the township on lake with Development Corporation would like to make it a priority to spruce up that area to bring new businesses into the area and as that particular area is very walkable to a large section of the tour um we feel that it's would be extremely convenient if there was um Pleasant um shopping that was available uh with parking and uh with safety so we're soliciting ideas of how to do that right now um so we've convened a downtown business committee which includes many of the um outstanding businesses that are already located in the downtown area and some of the ideas that have come up are to um convert the Town Square which has not been used uh very much for productive purposes and to turn that into parking and to Spruce it up and give it a facelift that it should be attractive as well as uh taking different measures to uh keep it keep the street safe and clean and U things along those lines at this point we're reaching out to the tiur at large and especially those that live or have businesses in that area for any other other ideas that they may have to spruce up that particular area so comments could be added to this post right here in the comment section or that it could be sent to D Klein at the Lakewood Development Corporation exe he's the executive director and you know please take this as invitation and opportunity to try to do what you can um to get your ideas heard and to benefit the the Tira at large and the downtown in particular and again we want to remind everybody that um the election this year is extremely important um uh mail ballots are already out and could be returned at any time early V voting has started and you can go to the m Municipal Building no matter what district you're in in Lakewood and cast your vote there at the municipal building or you can wait till Election Day November 7th and go to your regular polling place and with that I wish the tiur really a wonderful shabas we just to yesu and us