A Composer’s Dream: Housing For ‘Nice’ People

From the New York Times. Mitch Leigh is advertising for nice people to populate, in the words of the article, "an entirely new village of sorts in central New Jersey, with apartments and stores, a hotel and an Imax movie theater, surrounded by hundreds of acres of green space. It will have an eye toward creating a community for artists, and also, the developer insists, toward “nice” people."

This sounds like something people have been trying since the Utopian Movement of the 1800s, but Leigh, who was the composer of "Man of La Mancha," has been working on this impossible dream for over twenty years. Over 1000 acres of New Jersey has been purchased with "La Mancha" money for the purpose. And now he's advertising for inhabitants. And he's serious about the nice people part. At the end of the TV ad he says.......

“If you’re not a nice person, please don’t call.”

If you're a nice person, you may contact him at jacksontwentyone.com. I think I'll do that right now. Below is Mitch's pitch.