By Kevin Coughlin
What an errant car began, a bulldozer has finished on Market Street.
The former Accent on Knits shop, damaged when a car drove through its entrance in March, has been leveled to make way for a five-story triangular office building.
Morristown’s council approved tax incentives for the office project last month, enabling it to move forward.
Roseland law firm Fox Rothschild LLP is hoping a 42,000-square-foot structure will be completed by December 2016, when it aims to move 116 employees there. The Hampshire Companies are developing the wedge-shaped parcel between Market and Bank streets, which has been touted as a gateway to downtown Morristown.
New sidewalks, a small park, public art and a pedestrian walkway linking Market and Bank are scheduled as project amenities.
A Hampshire subsidiary bought the property from Harry Simon, owner of the adjacent Simon Gallery.
A Morris Plains man was charged with drunk driving after crashing his 2002 Lexus 300 through the vacant storefront at 1 am on Thursday, March 26, 2015.
I hope that the “architects” (with a very little a) of this building aren’t planning on going into NYC and finding the most intellectually dumb building that they can find, JUST LIKE HEADQUARTERS PLAZA… and building it on this pie shaped lot.