{"id":10999,"date":"2017-05-22T01:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10999"},"modified":"2017-05-22T01:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T05:38:31","slug":"brick-council-to-vote-on-new-plan-for-foodtown-lot-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/05\/brick-council-to-vote-on-new-plan-for-foodtown-lot-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Council to Vote on New Plan for Foodtown Lot This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The former Foodtown site off Route 70 in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

A revised Foodtown redevelopment plan up for consideration by the township council this week would settle a lawsuit and finally allow construction to begin on the site.<\/p>\n

The agreement would divide the\u00a0property\u00a0into two lots. M&M at Route 70, the original redeveloper that had been suing the township, will retain one of the lots on which three retail pads will be built.<\/p>\n

The second lot will be conveyed to TCA Properties, which will build an \u201cindoor recreation center\u201d at the site, according to a copy of a resolution on Tuesday night\u2019s council meeting agenda.<\/p>\n

The agenda does not include the financial particulars of the new plan. In 2007, when M&M was appointed redeveloper for the entire project \u2013 with the hopes of building a full-service hotel there \u2013 the company, led by developer Jack Morris, agreed to purchase the site for $7.5 million. No money was ever exchanged, however, because the developer was not responsible for purchasing the site until the planning board approved what would be developed there.<\/p>\n

Mayor John Ducey and the township council terminated the agreement<\/a> in 2014, after M&M had failed to meet numerous deadlines and unsuccessfully pitched a residential condominium plan for the site which would have violated the original agreement. M&M quickly filed a lawsuit<\/a>, a bench trial for which began earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The township, then led by Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli, bought the site in 2003 for $6.1 million. It was formerly housed a Foodtown supermarket and Bradlees store.<\/p>\n

The council will consider the new plan at its meeting\u00a0May 23, which begins at 7 p.m. at the township municipal complex.<\/p>\n

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