FMERA Making Move To Fort Monmouth Library

By Christopher Sheldon

The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority will have a new home by the end of this month.

FMERA’s new offices at the former Fort Monmouth library are nearly complete, and the board's public meetings will be held there beginning in August.

A public access plan for the new offices has been created by FMERA, the Army and the New Jersey State Police.

Visitors will be able to visit the FMERA office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday. They will have to enter through the main gate on the west side of Oceanport Avenue in Oceanport. Visitors must stop at the booth to inform the guard that they are visiting the FMERA offices.

They will be given a dated blue permit for their driver side dashboard and the guard will log in the vehicle license plate number and write it on the permit, which will also have a map indicating the route to and from the FMERA office.

Visitors will not able to go beyond the designated route and the permits will be good for one day only. Long-term permits can be assigned to specific individuals if authorized by FMERA.

To attend FMERA’s monthly board meeting, visitors will also enter through Oceanport Avenue and stop at the guard booth.

The following is directions to the new FMERA office from Oceanport Avenue.

• Visitors will proceed west on Sherrill Avenue and then left onto Brewer Avenue.

• Sherrill Avenue will be barricaded beyond Brewer Avenue, forcing the left hand turn. 

• The parking lot will be marked for FMERA Meeting Parking or a guard will direct the visitor into the parking area. 

• When leaving the meeting, visitors will be directed to proceed south on Brewer Avenue, past the FMERA office and to turn left onto Saltzman Avenue. The road will be barricaded to force the left hand turn. Gosselin Avenue and Malterer Avenue will be barricaded as well.

• Visitors will then continue on Saltzman to the Main Gate and exit onto Oceanport Avenue.

FMERA is also warning visitors that there is a large population of deer on the Fort Monmouth property, so all visitors should drive with caution.