{"id":10504,"date":"2026-05-12T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:56:56","slug":"toms-river-bank-building-to-be-demolished-replaced-by-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2026\/05\/toms-river-bank-building-to-be-demolished-replaced-by-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Bank Building to be Demolished, Replaced by McDonald’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The location of a proposed McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Toms River, N.J., Dec. 2025. (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Toms River planning board has approved plans for McDonald\u2019s corporation to demolish an existing bank building and construct a new restaurant with a dual-lane drive-through<\/p>\n

The new restaurant, at 1256 Indian Head Road, will replace the former Wells Fargo bank branch that was located within the parking lot area of the adjacent Home Depot store. Last week, the board adopted a resolution granting the company preliminary and final major site plan approval, along with bulk variances and design waivers for the property. The roughly 3,694-square-foot McDonald\u2019s restaurant will replace the bank, which sits on a pad site, and will include related site improvements.<\/p>\n

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A modern McDonald\u2019s restaurant architectural design. (Credit: McDonald\u2019s USA LLC)<\/p><\/div>\n

The board granted several variances and waivers in connection with the approval. These include a front yard setback to the building of 119.9 feet, where 120 feet is required \u2014 a pre-existing nonconformity \u2014 and a front yard parking setback from Route 9 of 34.8 feet, where 50 feet is required, also a pre-existing nonconformity.<\/p>\n

Additional relief allows ADA parking spaces of 8-feet and 11-feet in width rather than 12-feet as normally required; an internal landscape dividing strip of 5.3-feet instead of the required 10-feet; and four fa\u00e7ade or building-mounted signs where only one is permitted. The approval also permits four menu board signs rather than two, waives the requirement for a sidewalk along the roadway frontage, and allows a drive-through canopy and gateway signs with a height of 11 feet where 6 feet is permitted.<\/p>\n

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The Toms River planning board has approved plans for McDonald\u2019s corporation to demolish an existing bank building and construct a new restaurant with a dual-lane drive-through The new restaurant, at 1256 Indian Head Road, will replace the former Wells Fargo bank branch that was located within the parking lot area of the adjacent Home Depot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,2081,742,1993,11],"class_list":["post-10504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-featured","tag-home-depot","tag-mcdonalds","tag-newsbreak","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mcds.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}