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Vacancy Visions: What Should Go Here?

This location is a doozy.

 
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This is what the Chester Garden Club thought would look good at our telephone pole farm.
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This week we want to know what should go in this space.

 

Also, we would like to know what the heck is currently in this space! Seriously is it a telephone pole garden?

But this seems like some prime location near the new municipal complex in Chester Borough. What would you like to see there?

Related Topics: Vacancy Visions

Jacki Stymiest Spinelli

7:17 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

Nothing should go here. It is part of Telcordia that was purchased with Open Space money, therefore is not able to be developed. FYI - the whole property is very historical in many ways. There are some that say it was part of the Manhattan Project. Bell Labs owned both the Borough and Township side (it was divided up into Telcordia and Lucent). There were many interesting things there - a building where they used to test things against earthquakes and lightening, a bunker, a "bubble building. People who lived across the street (and some who still do) will tell you of their lights dimming every once in a while never really knowing what was being tested across the street. Under a lot of the fields were miles of wires and cables that were being tested. The poles are indeed telephone poles that were being tested against weathering, etc. I believe it is the township's view that they will stay the way they are.

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Russ Crespolini

9:43 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

When I was a kid, the place always fascinated me. I couldn't resist throwing it up there to see what answers I would get. Curiouser and curiouser.

Kat

9:22 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

Nothing - the "telephone pole farm" should remain as is. I consider this space to be one of those oddities that adds a peculiar charm to Chester. In this instance, to remove the oddity would be to decrease the charm.

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Russ Crespolini

9:44 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

No argument there. There should be a WEIRD NEW JERSEY marker out from with the post Jacki just wrote in front of it.

Pat Rossettie

9:34 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

And please notice that the Chester Garden Club has planted a lovely swath of daffodils to dress it up!

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Russ Crespolini

9:45 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

They DID?

Huh. I must have shot this before spring sprang. I need to take a new pic.

VSV

2:36 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012

Absolutely nothing should be "done with it" !! Why does everything have to have something "done (to) it ". It's iconic. It's a science experiment. It's art !!

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Russ Crespolini

8:04 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012

VSV, relax! Nothing "has to be" done. This is just a fun post we put up from time to time to start a conversation, share some ideas...be creative. Fun!

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Russ Crespolini

8:04 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012

Pat, I changed the photo to reflect your good work!

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Joan S. Case

3:55 am on Tuesday, May 1, 2012

It's where telephone poles grow! We have to leave it there, or we won't have any more telephone poles! {:O)

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Janet

11:01 am on Tuesday, May 1, 2012

How about a zip line?

Re. the telephone poles - seems like there should be some cool kid games to play amongst them - some variant of tag - hide-and-seek - capture the flag......

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