{"id":7089,"date":"2019-11-13T00:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2019-11-13T01:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T06:49:18","slug":"talks-on-municipal-purchase-of-surf-club-property-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2019\/11\/talks-on-municipal-purchase-of-surf-club-property-stalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks on Municipal Purchase of Surf Club Property Stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The former Joey Harrison’s Surf Club in Ortley Beach, July 2018. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

A plan for Toms River to purchase the former Joey Harrison’s Surf Club property in Ortley Beach for use as a public beach and recreation area has hit a snag over price.<\/p>\n

Toms River Township Administrator Don Guardian said Tuesday night that there have not been any new developments recently, and that the would-be deal is stalled over what it would cost the township, with help from the state, to buy the valuable oceanfront land.<\/p>\n

Guardian said the property was appraised at a market value of $6.3 million, with the state recently agreeing to increase that figure to an even $7 million. Numerous state regulations govern the purchase of private properties by public agencies, with little latitude given to pay what an appraiser would consider above-value. Toms River is hoping funding from the state’s Green Acres or Blue Acres program could be utilized to turn the former nightclub property \u2013 destroyed in Superstorm Sandy \u2013 into a public beach, expanded boardwalk and more parking for beachgoers. Ortley Beach residents have heavily lobbied for the township to make the purchase, especially in light of multi-million dollar purchases in North Dover and western portions of the township in recent years.<\/p>\n

Guardian has previously said that an attorney representing the Barcelona family, which owns the Surf Club property, had been trying to up the price of the land. The $7 million figure, however, appears to be the highest price on the table.<\/p>\n

“That is the final offer and they asked for the owners to proceed,” Guardian said.<\/p>\n

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A plan for Toms River to purchase the former Joey Harrison’s Surf Club property in Ortley Beach for use as a public beach and recreation area has hit a snag over price. Toms River Township Administrator Don Guardian said Tuesday night that there have not been any new developments recently, and that the would-be deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[472,19],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joey-harrisons-surf-club","tag-ortley-beach-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/surfclub.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1Ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}