Volume LXX, Number 29
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Local Police Respond to Tense Climate
Three police officers were killed and three others wounded last Sunday morning in an ambush in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ten days earlier, five officers had been shot dead and 12 injured during an otherwise peaceful protest in Dallas, Texas. Twenty-eight officers have died from gunshots this year, as opposed to 18 at this point last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. In every police department — urban, rural or suburban — tensions are running high and vigilance has become a top priority. Princeton is no exception. “Currently the threats are many and widespread. Officers are being targeted, ambushed and slaughtered nationwide, and I am extremely concerned about this,” stated Princeton Police Chief Nick Sutter. According to Mr. Sutter, he has ordered all patrol units to include not one but two officers, and the Princeton Police Department (PPD) is “monitoring intelligence reports very carefully. Until those reports show a decrease in the threats against law enforcement officers, we will take these and other heightened precautions to protect our officers.”
Taking a pro-active approach to the challenges of the current crisis, Mr. Sutter said that the Princeton police will be increasing their “positive footprint in the community.” He explained, “More than ever our community needs to see our officers as the well intended, everyday men and women they are. These are daughters, sons, husbands, wives, sisters, and brothers that have the same concerns that every other American has right now. The only way for our community to see this for themselves is to encounter our officers in a positive
way on an individual basis.” The officers of the PPD will be more present throughout town, according to Mr. Sutter, as they seek to increase visibility and positive encounters. “When our community gets to know our officers on a firstname basis, trust in the department and the legitimacy of our mission will be more likely earned,” he pointed out. “This type of relationship-building is exactly what our police departments need right now.” Mr. Sutter added that the police will also be “engaging in meetings and other
No tenant has been named yet for the empty building on Witherspoon Street that housed the Princeton Army & Navy Store from the 1960s until the store closed early this year. But developer Jeffrey M. SieBaseball, Americana, and gel, whose company ML7 Construction & Highway Dreams in a Design owns the building along with the Time of Terror . . . . . . 11 those on either side occupied by Small New Jersey Symphony World Coffee and the accessory store Presents Four Emerging Lisa Jones, has definite plans to reimagComposers . . . . . . . . 17 ine and redesign the long, skinny space. Continued on Page 9 Mr. Siegel was among three area deMeeting the Spacetime velopers to speak at a breakfast meeting Riffs Improv Group . . . 26 last Thursday at Springdale Golf Club. Rosencrantz & GuildenOrganized by the Real Estate Business stern Are Dead Delivers Alliance of the Princeton Regional ChamMercer County’s project to replace county is awaiting word from NJDOT on at Princeton Summer ber of Commerce, “Revitalizing and Rea bridge on Carter Road in Lawrence when we can have the contractor resume Theater . . . . . . . . . . . 27 purposing in the Region” was focused Township, stalled last week as a result work.” on efforts to revamp and enliven existing Johnson Aims to Come of an order by Governor Chris Christie Carter Road is the proposed detour buildings that, for various reasons, have Up Big for U .S . at Rio halting roadwork across the state, has for NJDOT’s Route 206 bridge project in outlived their usefulness. Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 not resumed despite appeals from law- Princeton that is scheduled to begin in late All three of the speakers — Mr. Siegel; makers. August or early September. “The Carter PHS Alumna LopezJames P. Herring, president of Herring According to County Executive Brian Road project is very important because Ona Buoyed by Team Properties; and Jon McConaughy, foundM. Hughes, “The contractor for the Carter if we can’t fix the Carter Road bridge on Camaraderie . . . . . . . 35 er of Brick Farm Group, had examples to Road bridge project in Lawrence stopped time, the state can’t fix the Route 206 share. Mr. Siegel said that Small World work last Friday and is awaiting word from bridge on time,” Mr. Hughes added. “Route Coffee will remain “for a very long time,” the county on when he can resume. The Continued on Page 4 and that Lisa Jones has an existing lease. His focus is on redeveloping the former Army & Navy building. “We will design a new entrance to go to the upper floors and pull the storefront out,” he said. “We’ll widen it and create more usable space.” Mr. Herring focused his talk on a 250,000-square-foot office building in Sandy Bing Reflects On Skillman and a former medical office His Career in Education at facility at 281 Witherspoon Street, next Hun, PDS, and Stuart . . 7 to the AvalonBay rental complex that is Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 nearing completion on the site of the forBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 mer Princeton Hospital. The Witherspoon Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 29 Street building was gutted and redesigned Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . 28 by architect Joshua Zinder, and is now Classified Ads . . . . . . . 41 home to a new combination of tenants. Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 10 “The former surgery center on the third Music/Theater . . . . . . 17 floor smelled medical. And it was a rat New To Us . . . . . . . . . 31 warren of offices,” Mr. Herring said. “But Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 39 Police Blotter . . . . . . . . 8 it had great bones. We re-introduced it to Real Estate . . . . . . . . 41 the marketplace by holding an Arts CounReligion . . . . . . . . . . . 39 cil event there, which went very well.” The Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 second floor of the building is now headTopics of the Town . . . . 5 quarters for a law office, financial comTown Talk . . . . . . . . . . . 6 pany, a medical practice, and yoga studio. “Years ago, you wouldn’t see that kind of mix,” he said. “But now, it’s a way of life.” SAVE UP TO “How To” Guide A30% second OFF buildingEVERYTHING owned by Herring Properties on thePet site will be demolished COOLING OFF IN STYLE: Where else but in Princeton can you beat the heat in the spray from James Fitzgerald’s FounAt all 29 Concord locations! Pages 18-21 and a new retail building is in development. tain of Freedom with Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads looking on, and Minoru Yamasaki’s Robertson Hall
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