AT&T
has been diligent in their attempts to lease property from the Department of
Public Work’s George Cobb Land site because they would like to build a cell
tower there.
Stephen
Canning of North Jersey reported, “Lincoln
Park was first approached by AT&T in early 2011 about the idea and
subsequently went out to bid for the right to lease the property. AT&T
turned out to be the high bidder, but talks to lease the land and construct a
tower fell apart after the sides couldn't agree to terms. Recently however,
AT&T approached the borough again about the idea and seemed willing to
compromise with Lincoln Park.”
The
reason this project fell through before was because Lincoln Park didn’t like
the idea of colocators on the cell tower. Colocators are companies that will
place their own antenna on an already constructed cell phone tower.
"The
borough gets a percentage of the rent from those colocators, but we don't want
to have to enter into contract with each one of them and have to manage each
one of them," Borough Attorney Tiena Cofoni said. (Source: North Jersey)
This
deal is not final because the borough still has to go out to bid and it’s not
certain that AT&T will be the highest bidder.
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