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No Further Action Letter for Athenia Steel Year In Review by Jordan Schwartz and Joe Hawrylko n the wake of the Dec. 06 Latteri Park school referendum defeat, the City Council offered to let the Board of Education build the school on land the city has owned since 1999, on the site of the former Athenia Steel company. If the Board does not accept the offer, Mayor James Anzaldi stated in Jan. 07, the city would begin construction during 2007 on ball fields on the northern section of the Clifton Ave. property. A senior citizen apartment complex, built in 2004, occupies the front six acres of the 35-acre site. Using the Athenia Steel property for a school is old news. During 2004 and 2005, a majority of the Board, then led by President Joe Kolodziej, had worked with the city in the hopes that it could use the 11 northern acres of the property for a 1,700 student school. The “deal” was that City Council was to expedite the environmental cleanup of the northern portion of the property and once completed, the Board would “swap” Latteri Park for the environmentally cleaned Athenia Steel site. Despite promises from the Mayor and Council, the necessary approvals from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection never materialized.
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