Morris Park Residents Breathe Sigh of Relief... For Now.

Daily News' Adam Lisberg reports that the proposed 911 Center to be located in Morris Park is way too expensive and will be scaled back.

The Tishman Technologies proposed contract was close to $1 billion!!!

So they're going back to the drawing board to work on a redesign of the project which would bring the numbers down a bit.

It's a little sad that Bronx residents were saying all along that this project was too large in scope for a quiet, residential community such as Morris Park, but the only reason the project is being re-evaluated is because of the cost. Money talks, eh?

~ErLu

Morris Park 911 Center?

Thank you to a BoogieDowner reader who alerted us to this New York Times story by Katherine Bindley about a possible 911 Emergency Call Center being planned for a nine-acre site at what is now the Hutchinson Metro Center in Morris Park. The call center would work in conjunction with the MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, which fields about 33,000 calls per day.

Residents are concerned that the possible arrival of this center, which has grown from its originally planned 17-story building to a 37-story building, will overwhelm the mostly residential neighborhood that already shows signs of overcrowding.

Community Board 11 has voted against the plan for the call center, but feels that the massive project will proceed anyway and strain the resources of the neighborhood.

Hopefully CB 11 is able to squash the plans for this center, or least get the city to scale back the nature of the project so that it is more in keeping with the low-key vibe of Morris Park.

*Photo courtesy of www.wisebread.com*

~ErLu