Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Group has filed an appeal with Zoning Board.
A Borough Council meeting Monday probably would have lasted all night if everyone who showed up to oppose a gambling addiction clinic that plans to lease the Parrot Mill Inn had their say. So Tallmadge Avenue resident Christine Walls, whose neighbors have protested the planned clinic, did something simple. During the public comment portion of the meeting, Walls got up to the microphone to speak. "We don't want to all get up and say the same thing," Walls said. So she asked everyone in the room who came to oppose the clinic to raise their hand. It seemed as if every hand went up. The display—and subsequent public comments from residents afterward—made it clear that Michael Osborne, who owns Tricare Treatment Services and plans to move his …
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Parrot Mill Inn
47 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Tone of meeting contrasts sharply with that of meeting one month ago.
After a Borough Council meeting last month during which many Main Street business owners and Chatham Chamber of Commerce officials spoke in favor of a Business Improvement District for Main Street, one would have thought that the creation of a BID in Chatham would have been a foregone conclusion. At a meeting Monday, the council was scheduled to vote on the BID's adoption. But that possibility was quickly rendered impossible. A large number of Main Street property and business owners came forward at the meeting to speak out against the BID. Many said they had been unaware of the BID creation process until about one month ago, and said they did not think it was the best way to help improve business at downtown establishments. "I'm not …
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Chatham Borough Municipal Building
54 Fairmount Ave, Chatham, NJ
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
According to a sign in the restaurant window, the new establishment will be called D'Oro.
The Main Street space that housed Fuoco Ristorante Italiano will eventually be home to a new restaurant, according to a sign in the front window of the now-closed establishment. The sign says the new restaurant at 219 Main St. will be called D'Oro and will open under new management. It does not say when the restaurant will serve its first meal. Fuoco closed about one month ago. Details about the closing have been difficult to come by, and from the outside, the restaurant still appears to be open. Tables are set, and the sign outside proclaiming "Fuoco" as the restaurant's name has not been taken down. Walls painted with a fiery logo ouside the restaurant have also not been removed. Its Web site is still up and running as if the restaurant …
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Fuoco Ristorante Italiano
219 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Historic site will be leased.
The Parrot Mill Inn will close in the next couple of months and reopen as a gambling addiction clinic. At a meeting Wednesday, the borough Planning Board unanimously approved the application of Michael Osborne, owner of Tricare Treatment Services, to provide counseling, mental health sessions and overnight accommodations to gaming addicted individuals at the historic site. The clinic will be called "Tricare at the Parrot Mill Inn." Officials said the details of the group's lease of the building will be finalized in the next few months. Osborne, a gambling behavioral therapist—a title he acknowledged was unregulated—told the board his facility would be the nation's first addiction clinic devoted to gambling. No physical changes will be made…
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Parrot Mill Inn
47 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Restaurant closed about two weeks ago.
Fuoco Ristorante Italiano has closed but could reopen in the coming months, according to a man inside the restaurant building today. The man said the Main Street Italian restaurant, which offered a prix fixe $9.95 lunch menu, had closed. Chatham Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carolyn Cherry said the restaurant closed at some point the week before last, so it closed about two weeks ago. The man inside the restaurant, however, said Fuoco could reopen in the coming weeks or months. Asked why the restaurant had closed, he said, "I don't know." The tables inside the restaurant are still set, and the brightly lit establishment still looks ready for customers. A sign outside the restaurant is still intact, and the restaurant's Web …
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Fuoco Ristorante Italiano
219 Main St, Chatham, NJ
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Zach Subar
1:12 pm on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I've been trying to figure out what's going on here, so if anyone's got any information, feel free to pass it along. more ›