{"id":10843,"date":"2017-04-26T01:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2017-04-26T03:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:30:58","slug":"brick-to-open-teen-center-that-will-feature-music-studio-games-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/04\/brick-to-open-teen-center-that-will-feature-music-studio-games-and-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Open Teen Center That Will Feature Music Studio, Games and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_812\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"size-large wp-image-812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Civic Plaza (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civic Plaza (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township teens have expressed to township officials that they want a place to meet, and soon they\u2019ll have one, Mayor John Ducey said.<\/p>\n<p>Funded through a $25,000 grant the township recently received, Brick will renovate a portion of Civic Plaza on Chambers Bridge Road and open its first-ever teen center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as we did our parks for our families, we want to have something for our teens in town,\u201d said Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>The teen center will include a music recording studio, computer stations, workstations, bean bag chairs, pool tables, gaming systems and more. The work to renovate and decorate the space is being spearheaded by a group of teens themselves, Ducey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be an awesome amenity to our town and give kids a productive place to be,\u201d said Ducey, who formed a teen advisory board early in his mayoral administration.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey said there will be a formal grand opening announced when the space is ready \u2013 likely in late May or early June.<\/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\/04\/brick-to-open-teen-center-that-will-feature-music-studio-games-and-activities\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township teens have expressed to township officials that they want a place to meet, and soon they&#8217;ll have one, Mayor John Ducey said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812,"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_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":[4,2],"tags":[24,250,2869],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-civic-plaza","tag-teen-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/civic_plaza.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2OT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","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=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}