{"id":10425,"date":"2017-02-16T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2017-02-16T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T06:00:10","slug":"trucks-parked-at-old-foodtown-site-part-of-barter-deal-with-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/02\/trucks-parked-at-old-foodtown-site-part-of-barter-deal-with-township\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucks Parked at Old Foodtown Site Part of Barter Deal With Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_951\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"size-large wp-image-951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"The former Foodtown site off Route 70 in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former Foodtown site off Route 70 in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever notice those trucks parked in at the site of the former Foodtown supermarket on Route 70?<\/p>\n<p>They are allowed to be there, township officials say, and residents are receiving a benefit from their presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a mutual agreement with them,&#8221; said Mayor John Ducey, explaining that the trucks are from a tree cutting and removal service, and are being allowed to use the parking lot in exchange for trimming and removing some trees for the township. &#8220;They\u2019re getting the parking spots and we\u2019re getting some trees taken down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question from a resident at a recent meeting of the township council, Township Administrator Joanne Bergin said no formal study was conducted to calculate the value of the parking spaces versus the tree-cutting services, but so far the deal has been beneficial, especially since the lot continues to sit empty while its former redeveloper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/01\/trial-begins-in-lawsuit-over-brick-foodtown-site\/\">suing the township<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We supervise the work and we\u2019re happy with the agreement,&#8221; said Bergin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/02\/trucks-parked-at-old-foodtown-site-part-of-barter-deal-with-township\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice those trucks parked in at the site of the former Foodtown supermarket on Route 70? They are allowed to be there, township officials say, and residents are receiving a benefit from their presence. &#8220;We have a mutual agreement with them,&#8221; said Mayor John Ducey, explaining that the trucks are from a tree cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,286,287],"class_list":["post-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-foodtown","tag-route-70"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_0008.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}