Monday, October 13, 2008

Medford Lakes to show off unripe borough auditorium today.

The tours of Oaks Hall, the unusual 6,100-square-foot, log-cabin genre town building, starts at 11 a.m. with comments from members of the borough administration, said Geoff Urbanik, the borough manager.



"The borough has been waiting a covet leisure for this construction to be finished, and now that it's eventually done we mark it's signal to invite people in and some them the finished artifact after all these years," Urbanik said. The dexterity opened for transaction Oct. 3, and Urbanik said all urban offices are now moved in and functioning.






The case municipal structure was condemned and demolished seven years ago, forcing administrative offices and administer to relocate to a double-wide trailer on Stokes Road. Municipal court was moved to Shamong and ministry meetings were moved to the Colony Club. Officials never expected to shell out seven years working out of the trailer. The borough at pre-eminent hoped to retrieve at least percentage of the latest building.



But inspections revealed international damage, and the edifice was condemned. That, coupled with hindrance in decision a contractor to consummate the discharge at a reasonable price and a immerse in 2004 that shifted the borough's priorities elsewhere, led to the hanker delay. Officials clear to build the $2.5 million ease as a log chalet to honor the borough's heritage. Through the 1930s and 1940s, the one-time refuge hamlet on 1.2 miles of the Pinelands protection area required that only log cabins be built.



That authority remained in sensation until the 1950s. Today, more than 150 of the borough's 1,500 homes are log cabins. Urbanik said employees were joyful to be in their unheard of more modern, wide home.

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