{"id":13751,"date":"2018-11-14T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13751"},"modified":"2018-11-14T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T06:39:07","slug":"brick-developing-new-plans-for-restaurant-at-traders-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/11\/brick-developing-new-plans-for-restaurant-at-traders-cove\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Developing New Plans for Restaurant at Traders Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A proposed bar and restaurant to be built at Traders Cove Marina in Brick, NJ. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Plans for a bayfront bar and restaurant at Traders Cove Marina are undergoing a \u201creboot,\u201d Township Administrator Joanne Bergin said, with the municipal government looking to scale down a proposal that faced criticism<\/a> from some local environmentalists, as well as the county and some residents.<\/p>\n

Bergin said the state Department of Environmental Protection had, in the past, approved a CAFRA (Coastal Areas Facilities Review Act) permit for a restaurant on the site in a specific footprint that was smaller than the one which would have been occupied by the bar and restaurant proposed by Chef\u2019s International<\/a> under an agreement with the township that never came to fruition. The township is now working to develop plans to build something within that original permitted area, which is located in a smaller footprint on the same site as the Chef\u2019s International proposal. Officials have approached the DEP about the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said, \u2018if this is the footprint was approved by CAFRA, would there be an objection to it?\u2019\u201d explained Bergin. \u201cThey were certainly more amenable by looking at that footprint rather than the larger one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The size of the facility would be \u201cdownsized significantly\u201d from the Chef\u2019s International restaurant, which drew questions from state regulators as to its financial structuring \u2013 mainly, a leasing agreement between the company and the township.<\/p>\n

The good news for those hoping for a new bayfront establishment is that there is now a history of state park facilities hosting bars and restaurants. The township has requested and received copies of the request for proposal sent out by the state before a bar was built at Island Beach State Park, as well as the financial agreement between the restaurant\u2019s operator and the DEP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to look at those, combined, and see what we can come up with,\u201d said Bergin.<\/p>\n

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Boats docked at Traders Cove Marina, Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The area where the Chef\u2019s International restaurant was proposed is currently a grassy area north of the floating docks and east of the playground area.<\/p>\n

Bergin said the township\u2019s RFP process will determine what restaurant operator will open an establishment at Traders Cove.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it will be Chef\u2019s International, but we don\u2019t really know,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the process we\u2019re going to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Plans for a bayfront bar and restaurant at Traders Cove Marina are undergoing a \u201creboot,\u201d Township Administrator Joanne Bergin said, with the municipal government looking to scale down a proposal that faced criticism from some local environmentalists, as well as the county and some residents. Bergin said the state Department of Environmental Protection had, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8480,"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":[2],"tags":[24,2174,1047,40],"class_list":["post-13751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-chefs-international","tag-restaurant","tag-traders-cove"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5336-e1463531067871.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3zN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751","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=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}