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The Huffington Post. She remains
critical of the town’s eagerness to
dole out tax abatements. “Why
should the developer get that benefit?” she asked. “None of us got
that benefit.”
Officials with Applied Development could not be reached
for comment. Mary Jane Celli, a
councilwoman in Long Branch,
wrote in an email that the tax
abatements were part of an effort
to attract developers after many
years. “They were the first developers to come to the city after
years of courting developers and
offers to build,” she wrote. “When
folks are so negative about tax
abatements they should look at
the whole picture not the narrow
view of one small segment.”
New Jersey
Natural Gas
technician
Carlos Rojas
looks for
leaking gas
mains in Long
Beach Island,
N.J.