{"id":11767,"date":"2017-10-31T02:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11767"},"modified":"2017-10-31T02:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:39:59","slug":"brick-will-open-lounge-270-its-new-teen-center-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/10\/brick-will-open-lounge-270-its-new-teen-center-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Will Open &#8216;Lounge 270,&#8217; Its New Teen Center, This Week"},"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>A safe and fun hangout for Brick Township teens is set to open this week.<\/p>\n<p>The center, which was announced earlier this year, will be known as Lounge 270, located in Civic Plaza on Chambers Bridge Road. Lounge 270 will officially open Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony from 6-8 p.m. There will also be\u00a0bands, food, a rock wall and tours.<\/p>\n<p>Lounge 270 (named for the center\u2019s address at 270 Chambers Bridge Road) is being funded through a $25,000 grant the township received. A portion of Civic Plaza has been renovated in order to accommodate the new facility, which will feature\u00a0a music recording studio, computer stations, workstations, bean bag chairs, pool tables, gaming systems and more.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Ducey has said the center came about after he formed a Teen Advisory Committee after he was first elected mayor. Members of the committee helped decorate and design the space.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on Lounge 270, and its hours and planned activities will be announced at the grand opening.<\/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\/10\/brick-will-open-lounge-270-its-new-teen-center-this-week\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A safe and fun hangout for Brick Township teens is set to open this week. The center, which was announced earlier this year, will be known as Lounge 270, located in Civic Plaza on Chambers Bridge Road. Lounge 270 will officially open Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony from 6-8 p.m. There will also be\u00a0bands, [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[24,3112,2869],"class_list":["post-11767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-lounge-270","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-33N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767","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=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/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=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}