{"id":13964,"date":"2019-01-02T00:14:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2019-01-02T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T05:15:00","slug":"catering-facility-approved-for-herbertsville-road-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/01\/catering-facility-approved-for-herbertsville-road-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Catering Facility Approved for Herbertsville Road Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Allen Farms property in Brick Township, Oct. 2018. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick officials have approved the application of a catering company to build a multi-story facility on a Herbertsville Road farm and upgrade existing buildings on the property.<\/p>\n

The township\u2019s zoning board approved the application of The Farm at 511, LLC<\/span>, owned by Merri-Makers Caterers, an Edison-based company, to construct the facility at what was long known as Allen Farms, a country store and fruit and vegetable stand. Though Herbertsville Road is heavily used as a commercial sector, the farm property is located within the Rural Residential Zone, which necessitated a variance to be granted by the board.<\/p>\n

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The Allen Farms property in Brick Township.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Allen Farms property in Brick Township, Oct. 2018. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The company will construct a new 6,000 square-foot, two-story building with a total gross floor area of 10,974 square feet to be used as a catering facility at property. The existing building from Allen Farms is proposed to be used as a retail store for prepared food items on the first floor and storage on the second floor. The existing residential dwelling is proposed to remain standing.
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The board also approved the use of the facility for food preparation and storage for eventual delivery to off-site catering facilities. Merri-Makers operates a number of catering venues across the state popular for weddings and corporate events. Their most well-known property in Ocean County is the Bonnet Island Estate, located on Barnegat Bay across from Long Beach Island.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brick officials have approved the application of a catering company to build a multi-story facility on a Herbertsville Road farm and upgrade existing buildings on the property. The township\u2019s zoning board approved the application of The Farm at 511, LLC, owned by Merri-Makers Caterers, an Edison-based company, to construct the facility at what was long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13601,"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":[2,1649],"tags":[2365,24,55],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-local-business","tag-allen-farms","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-herbertsville-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/allen_farms_brick23.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3De","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","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=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}