By Mark Grieco, Somerset.
“Facts,” said John Adams, “are stubborn things…” I was reminded of this quote by Adams when reading about the disbanding of the Hamilton Street Business and Community Corporation (HSBCC). Over the past 10 years, the non-profit HSBCC had been tasked with overseeing the Hamilton Street Business District, over a 1-mile long stretch of residential and commercial properties in the eastern part of the township. As a full disclosure, I had been active in the HSBCC in its earliest days, but left after a few years.
One often-repeated remark in Franklin is the notion that this stretch of Hamilton Street was the downtown of Somerset. It had fallen onto tough times and needed some revitalization to bring it back to its former glory. This dovetails with a widely held notion throughout the township that “Somerset” was once a village, of at least equal historical status to the other villages in the township. Unfortunately, the facts speak of something else entirely. Without an accurate understanding of what Somerset is, the township council and their advisors will labor to solve the wrong problem.
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