Click on the image to the right to see the WFMZ artical regarding the 328,000 square foot warehouse.
Peron Consruction does an initial presentation of a 328,000 square foot warehouse to the Philllipsburg Town Council.
Peron Construction, 100% owned by developer Michael Perrucci, received approval for their fourth warehouse site plan for the Peron Howard Street Property. This iteration of site plan approval is for a 328,000 square foot warehouse. This site plan has approval for 200 trucks per day and rail was mentioned.
Note, the article indicates that this is the third site plan approved, but there was an ordinance for a 510,000 square foot warehouse passed in May 2021. The May 2021 ordinance is currently subject to litigation. Hence, the 328,000 square foot site plan is the fourth site plan for the Peron Howard Street property.
A note to keep in mind. If the Peron Howard Street Property zoning is changed from Riverside Residential to Industrial, Peron Construction is not constrained to build the 328,000 square foot warehouse that it obtained approval for in the January 25, 2024 Land Use Board Meeting. We believe a primary reason for the approval of this site plan is to try to sway folks to support changing the Peron Howard Street property from Riverside Residential to Industrial, and for the town to avoid losing the lawsuit Docket Number WRN-L-000248-21.
We believe the rail is a fiction that is being presented to try to convince some residents and businesses to support the wrehouse. Even though there is rail by the property, there are several issues, in our opinion, that would make the rail prohibitive.
- The curret rail is not able to handle freight
- The cost to bring the current rail up to condition to handle freight would be prohibitive
- Michael Perrucci has promised a rail connection to the property since his original purchase of the property to build residences on the property in the mis 2000s (around 2005, need to look up actual date of his meeting with Council). No rail has ever come about.
- As mentioned, this is the fourth site plan approved for Peron Construction. Various site plans have been done because the State would not let Peron Construction build the warehouse on open space land encumbered by the State of New Jersey, modifications in the site plan were made to try to win votes by promising a rail connection, and a site plan was made because a previous site plan would not have worked.