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Mayor James Cassella of East Rutherford said Tuesday that he met with Triple Five officials several weeks ago for an update on the bonds.

“I asked them point-blank, ‘When do you think?’” Cassella said, adding that he was told that they would be sold “hopefully in February.”

But the project has been delayed so many times — dating to its inception as Meadowlands Xanadu more than a decade ago under a previous developer — that “I take it with a grain of salt,” the mayor said. “We’ll see.”