Montclair developer submits site plans for 'CentroVerde,' better known as DCH site

Montclair officials received a site plan for CentroVerde at Montclair, which is the name now bestowed on the three-building redevelopment set for the DCH property, on Thursday.

STAFF PHOTO BY GEORGE WIRT

The site plan for CentroVerde at Montclair, the new name for the DCH redevelopment project, includes three buildings with retail, commercial and office space. The development will also have a 25-foot atrium, a plaza and a courtyard.

STAFF PHOTO BY GEORGE WIRT

The street-level floor of CentroVerde's buildings will be retail space, and above that will be residential units.

The plans depict Phase 1 and 2 of what the township calls the Montclair Center Gateway, a mixed-use project with residential, retail and office space slated for the former DCH dealership site on Bloomfield Avenue, between Valley and Orange roads. The project is considered critical to the township's future, a source of new ratables and tax revenue on a four-acre slice of what's currently empty land with vacant buildings.

The site plans shows three six-story buildings, with their ground floors mainly dedicated to retail space, with storefronts adorned with fabric awnings and metal canopies. Residential units are perched above the retail-filled ground level. The plan also calls for a sprucing up of the Church Street circle.

The Montclair Center Gateway plans include a 25-foot, two-story atrium in Building 3, at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Orange Road, as well as a plaza that would face Bloomfield Avenue. Building 2, precisely on the old DCH dealership space at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Valley Road, has an open courtyard behind it.

Building 1 is past Building 2 on Valley Road, and will be built next to the Montclair Board of Education Building.

The group developing the DCH property, Montclair Acquisition Partners LLC, filed its site plans with Janice Talley, director of the Township Department of Planning and Community Development.

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Montclair developer submits site plans for 'CentroVerde,' better known as DCH site