You know that elaborate Arts and Transit Neighborhood the university was planning on building where the current Dinky station is?

Yeah, not happening.

After the Borough and the Township failed to agree on zoning for the neighborhood at Monday night’s joint meeting, Tilghman and Durkee decided to pull the plug on current plans.  Tilghman said that the University will soon begin working on designs for a new art complex in an area that would not require local approval.

This project had been in the works for over four years.  Tilghman pointed out that Frick Chemistry Laboratory was thought of, designed and built in the time it has taken for the Borough and Township to come to zero conclusion about approving zoning for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

Tilghman called Monday night a “go or no go” moment for the University, saying that she needed to know if the university could “move forward” with the project.

However, the only movement during the four-and-a-half hour meeting was the occasional eyebrow raise by Township Mayor Chad Goerner whenever a community member said something particularly ridiculous during the open-mic part of the meeting. “The bus is a stiletto pointed at the heart of the Dinky, bleeding off ridership and eventually killing it” was definitely the highlight of the night.

Read more about the story at AllPrinceton.

(image source: http://www.princeton.edu/artsandtransit/design/)