Millville Insider

A copy of the construction permit for the demolition of 214 N. High Street shows the cost to be $80,000. Many of you will remember 214 N. High Street as the site of Champion’s Hardware. Champion’s is actually a brick and mortar 2 story T-shaped building and is quite large. In fact it appears to be larger than the site of the infamous $2 million dollar no-bid demo at 109 E. Main Street next to Jim’s lunch. Santiago (without the legal authority to do so) hired a contractor with a phone call and the Commissioners without a single question endorsed what he did. Your elected officials decided to pay for the demolition without getting at least one other price! The City paid 25 times as much to demolition 109 Main St. than a private citizen is paying to demolish 214 High. And I’d be willing to bet the private owner isn’t paying for the contractor’s insurance like the City did. Millville taxpayers should be livid! How long will the city of Millville put up with this wasteful spending

The City of Millville has relied on Don Ayres for economic development for many years.   Just look around town to judge his work. A recent article was posted on NJ.com regarding a decision made by Mr. Ayres and the city commission which, at the time, included Mr. Parent. Copy and paste the link to read complete article:   https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/04/if-a-space-elevator-was-ever-going-to-happen-it-could-have-gotten-its-start-in-nj-heres-how-it-went-wrong.html     The article discusses how the city of Millville gave Liftport   $50,000 to develop an elevator to the moon, yes to the moon! The Cumberland County Empowerment Zone also gave Liftport $50,000. Of course the company never came to Millville and never developed the elevator to the moon and never gave the money back. Of course, the owner of Liftport would love to do business with Millville again. Below is an excerpt from the article.             “Don Ayers, who served as the director of economic dev