ANOTHER UPDATE: Instead of paving Front Street to the dead end as announced in the letter (below) dated July 31, 2026, the Borough chose to pave only part of Front Street, skipping the end leading to the parcel supposedly “inaccessible” as shown here:
UPDATE: “Due to a contractor delay, paving on… Front Street has been rescheduled for Monday, August 10, 2026, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weather permitting…”
In the past, our Council tried to increase the property tax base by selling surplus, tax-exempt, Borough-owned land, including the vacant, 0.62-acre parcel just south of the train tracks at 39 Front Street:
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/chatham/articles/chatham-borough-officials-take-steps-to-unload-pr
Today 39 Front Street remains Borough-owned, tax-exempt, and only about a block from the train station, as shown on the Borough’s official tax map:
https://chathamborough.org/forms-documents/forms/maps/1262-chatham-borough-tax-map-atlas/file
Though 39 Front Street remains vacant and tax-exempt, it’s now called “rear of 16 Walnut St,” or “16 Walnut Street, rear”and the Mayor has deemed it “inaccessible”:
How can a parcel with a 50′ frontage on a downtown public street be called “inaccessible”?
Is the trouble that that end of Front Street isn’t paved?
If so, that will soon be remedied. A few days ago the Mayor’s Department of Public Works announced its plans to pave the dead end of Front Street:
jstrickland@chathamborough.org
kkoronkiewicz@chathamborough.org
mayorcouncil@chathamborough.org
Visit the next Council meeting, set for Monday, August 10, 2026 at 7:30 pm, either:
- in-person, Borough Hall, 54 Fairmount Avenue, or
- virtually, using details to follow at chathamborough.org.