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CLOSE Joe Romano, a principal with Accordia Realty discusses revised plans for luxury apartments in downtown Pompton Lakes Aug . 17, 2017 before the Redevelopment Agency . Jai Agnish/Northjersey.com Accordia Realty , revised drawings, Pompton Lakes, N.J." /> Accordia Realty presented revised drawings on Thursday for an apartment and retail project on Wanaque Avenue in Pompton Lakes. (Photo: Jai Agnish/Northjersey.com) POMPTON LAKES — Revised plans for downtown luxury apartments on Wanaque Avenue will spare the beloved Cardinal Cafe . A substantial redesign of  Accordia Realty 's five-story residential and retail building reduces the number of apartment units to 44 from 82.  One of the owners of Accordia described the changes and presented new conceptual drawings to the Pompton Lakes Redevelopment Agency on Thursday night . The project is planned for between R&M Hardware and Tony's Pizza. The new design means that the building that houses the Cardinal Cafe ...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...

Drawing the lines in battle over space By Jeff Simms Scenic Hudson is hoping to nearly double the parking at the base of Mount Beacon to ease congestion at one of the Highlands’ most popular hiking spots . Meanwhile, the Beacon City Council and a developer clashed over who should provide spaces for a new 24- unit apartment building on Main Street. Mount Beacon Representatives from Scenic Hudson appeared before the Planning Board earlier this month to discuss plans to expand the lot at the park from 40 spaces to 77. The project, if approved, would be completed this winter, said Meg Rasmussen, a park planner for the nonprofit conservation group . It would involve moving the Howland Avenue lot entrance farther away from Route 9D and turning it into an exit. Cars routinely line Howland on holidays and weekends when the park’s lot is full. An overflow area north of the lot will be off-limits (it was recently determined to be wetlands), while the existing lot will be widened and orien...