![]() ![]() developed over a period of years by the United States Rubber Company, Uniroyal's predecessor company, there was seven‐story building of 289,000 square feet, built in 1930, two buildings of 200,000 square feet from 1918, and several smaller structures. The Gera facilities are known as the Passaic Industrial Center.Īt the Uniroyal facilities. The Botany Mills complex, for example, is Passaic Industrial Estates now, owned and operated by the Church Management Corporation, of which Pater Sharp is a principle. Smaller manufacturing and distribution operations have succeeded them in multi‐tenent facilities. With the departure of Gera Mills, a woolens manufacturer, then Botany Mills and finally the two rubber products manufacturers in 1974, the large industries of the earlier era have moved away. The Hackensack Water company of today is the successor to the Dundee Water Power and Land company, the town's historians say. ![]() The Passaic Navigation Company chartered a group to build the Dundee Canal to get the ships through the rapids at Passaic's northern border, and industry grew. “There will be quite a few hires in the Passaic area,” said Gerald Sauler, president of Technical Tape, an American Stock exchange company that had sales of $60 million last year.Ī century ago the Passaic River carried barge traffic from Paterson to Newark Bay. Eventually the company expects to have a thousand people at work in the 930,000 square feet of Passaic space. The huge bare floors in the few buildings give little evidence of it so far, but in a few weeks 300 to 330 people should be at work producing Tuck's pressure‐sensitized tapes for industrial and home use. They are the vanguard from Technical Tape Inc., a New Rochelle, N.Y., company that has bought the Uniroyal property for the expanded operations of its Tuck Tape division. ‘Vacant until Arne Carlson and his crew put in an appearance a few weeks ago. But most of the “old Uniroyal paltn,” as it still is known locally, has been vacant since the last of the Uniroyal people left. The Raybeslos‐Manhattan butictIngs were bought by a real‐estate operator and leased out to smaller industrial tenants. pulled up stakes from their manufacturing facilities here, at a cost to Passaic of 3,000 jobs. N.J.-The year 1972 is not recalled with affection by this venerable industrial city on the Passaic River. ![]()
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