For Blackstone 360, a 105-unit project was just the beginning of what has become a major investment in East Orange. The development and design-build firm has since rehabilitated two other buildings in the city — comprising an additional 252 apartments — and now has a fourth project under construction that will deliver another 150 units to the neighborhood.
Long-term issues need long-term solutions
When the drafters of the federal and New Jersey constitutions established the length of terms for elected leaders from two to six years, they probably thought those were the right lengths to enable those leaders to focus on both short- and long-term issues. Unfortunately, most of the focus has been on the short term with little planning for the longer-term issues. Long-term has come to mean getting past the next election.
