The borough plans to purchase the property, knock down the building and pave a municipal parking lot in its place. While designs have yet to be drawn up for the planned parking lot, Mayor Jim Cassella said cars would likely enter and leave on Boiling Springs Avenue. A small buffer area would separate the lot from Park Avenue, preventing cars from entering while allowing people to enter and exit the lot on foot. The council also voted to begin designing the lot.

Cassella said the lot would need lighting and security in response to a resident’s concerns.

"We don’t want it to be a spot where people are hanging out in, that’s for sure, but it couldn’t be any worse than it was," he said.

Borough attorney Peter Melchionne is in the process of negotiating a price.

"We’re close to an agreement," said Cassella.

During its tenure, Park City became associated with loud noise and unruly patrons for some residents. The mayor and council voted to remove the nightclub’s entertainment license March 8, spurring business owner Lou Grasso to close up shop.

Councilman Gary Viccaro, the only council member to vote against the bond ordinance, said he had no qualms with the borough purchasing the Park City property in particular.

Viccaro was, however, opposed to the purchase of another property in the borough. The borough plans to purchase Global Wrap, an abandoned business located behind 2 Carlton Ave. The building will be demolished to make way for a park to complement the borough’s ongoing "Rails to Trails" project, which will convert the adjacent abandoned railroad tracks into a hiking and biking trail.

According to Councilmen Joel Brizzi and Ed Ravettine, the rails to trails project would allow the borough to apply for more money for open space. Most people think of open space as undeveloped land, but demolishing an abandoned building or tearing up abandoned railroad tracks and replacing them with a park also counts as open space, Brizzi noted.

While no negotiations have taken place between the owner of Global Wrap and the borough, Cassella said the borough sought to appropriate money. The borough also hopes to purchase the adjacent property at 2 Carlton Ave. Cassella said negotiations for purchasing the property are still underway and the borough could seek to condemn the abandoned property if an agreement cannot be reached.

The third property the borough bonded to purchase was a Sunoco gas station located at the corner of Paterson Avenue and Hoboken Road in the borough. Since the introduction of the bond ordinance, a real estate company has purchased the Sunoco station for $300,000, according to Viccaro. Since the borough cannot purchase the property, the money bonded to purchase it will be canceled and refunded to the borough, according to borough clerk Danielle Lorenc.

Cassella said the property is an eyesore and the borough was considering converting the gas station into a small park in its efforts to fix up the borough.