{"id":13977,"date":"2019-01-03T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2019-01-03T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:44:16","slug":"white-castle-under-construction-in-brick-hardees-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/01\/white-castle-under-construction-in-brick-hardees-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"White Castle Under Construction in Brick, Hardee’s On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A White Castle restaurant under construction in Brick, N.J., Jan. 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s a tale of two long-approved fast food restaurants in Brick \u2013 one dating back more than four years and another at 11 years.<\/p>\n

Both White Castle and Hardee\u2019s restaurant locations were approved in Brick, but until recently neither had been built. Now, however, the tell-tale shape of a castle has been emerging from the location where that White Castle was first approved in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are very excited, especially a lot of our seniors, believe it or not,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey.<\/p>\n

White Castle will open its Brick location at a pad site in the Riverwalk shopping center. The building itself will be located right next to the Outback Steakhouse site and have entrances from within the shopping plaza as well as Hooper Avenue. According to planning documents, the restaurant \u2013 known for its addictive hamburger sliders and chicken ring sandwiches \u2013 will have 60 seats and a drive-through lane.<\/p>\n

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A White Castle restaurant under construction in Brick, N.J., Jan. 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

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A White Castle restaurant under construction in Brick, N.J., Jan. 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

White Castle has long been rumored to be interested in coming to Brick, with the company first proposing to build a location in 2017. Though nothing was ever built, the chain revived its application at hearings in 2010, 2012 and finally in 2017.<\/p>\n

Down Brick Boulevard, progress on another fast food restaurant \u2013 also the first of its kind in the area \u2013 has come to a halt.<\/p>\n

Ducey said township officials were last in touch with the developer of a proposed Hardee\u2019s restaurant over the summer when concerns were raised about the appearance of the lot on which the restaurant was supposed to be built.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on hold, at least for now,\u201d said Ducey.<\/p>\n

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A pad site at the Bay Harbor shopping center in Brick where a Hardee\u2019s restaurant had been proposed. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hardee\u2019s was approved in Dec. 2014 to be constructed at a pad site at the Bay Harbor shopping center, which is also home to Stop \u2018N Shop as well as Burlington Coat Factory. The plot where the restaurant would have been built, outside the jug handle that runs through the shopping center\u2019s parking lot, had been approved for use as a fast food restaurant since 2009, but it was in 2014 that Hardee\u2019s formally received permission to build.<\/p>\n

There are few details as to what, exactly, prompted the project to be put off. Last year, its owner told another publication that the Brick restaurant would be branded as a Carl\u2019s Jr. instead of a Hardee\u2019s. The two chains, with virtually identical menus, are both owned by CKE Restaurants.<\/p>\n

Ducey said the property owner has been issued a notice of violation for failure to properly maintain the property.<\/p>\n

Last month, the township\u2019s planning board voted to approve an application by Starbucks to build a location<\/a> within the jug handle area of the Bay Harbor plaza. The coffeehouse will be linked to Hardee\u2019s (or Carl\u2019s Jr.) by a walkway if it were ever to be built, officials said.<\/p>\n

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