Dornoch Plans Sales Office

Dornoch Plainfield, the company that is building 63 condos over a new senior center at 400 East Front Street, is seeking City Council approval to lease this city-owned lot at East Front Street and Westervelt Avenue for $500 a month for seven months.

The company plans to put a trailer on the site to serve as a sales office.

The item will be up for City Council approval at the meeting to be held 8 p.m. Wednesday in Municipal Court.

Dornoch won approval for the $15 million project in January 2007 and is constructing the new senior center at no cost to the city on the building's ground floor. The current senior center is in leased space in the block-long building at left.

The new condo development, The Monarch, is expected to be marketed to empty-nesters and young professionals rather than families with children. Completion is scheduled for mid-2008.

--Bernice Paglia