SOUTH RIVER – A brand new grocery store is a part of a redevelopment plan for the previous Laffin Chevrolet website on the nook of Important and Reid streets.
Brothers Builders PJ, LLC, the designated redeveloper for the property, has utilized to the Planning Board for preliminary and last main website plan approval to develop a mixed-use constructing at 7 and 11 Important St. (County Route 535) and 1, 3 and seven Reid St, in accordance with paperwork filed with the borough. The location is close to the Important Avenue entrance to South River from Sayreville by way of the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge.
Port Plaza will function 17 flats; an roughly 13,357-square-foot grocery store, Seabra Meals; an roughly 2,711-square-foot wine retailer, and an roughly 3,927-square-foot ready meals café, with associated website enhancements, the paperwork say.
The challenge contains loads of parking, a small park and a walkway up in opposition to the waterfront, stated Mayor Peter Guindi.
The proposed improvement doesn’t require any variance aid. The tons can be consolidated if the appliance is authorised. The property is situated in Sub-Space-150 of the Decrease Important Avenue Redevelopment Space, the place the proposed makes use of are permitted.
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In October 2016, the Borough Council adopted the Decrease Important Avenue Redevelopment Space Redevelopment Plan. The plan for the Laffin website was just lately amended and authorised by the Borough Council and can now go earlier than the Planning Board for website plan approval, borough officers stated.
The lengthy awaited challenge has been about 10 years within the making, the mayor stated.
“It is unbelievable what they’re doing,” Guindi stated. “You are going to see a beautified starting to Important Avenue. No extra decaying buildings. That is the pathway to South River. That is the start of the redevelopment for the residents of South River.”
Guindi stated whereas working for mayor final 12 months, he ran on the promise of redevelopment within the borough.
“We’ve got to cease dragging our toes,” he stated. “We’ve got to cease speaking about excuses and begin doing and that’s precisely what I am doing. I have been working with the administration to get this carried out. Now we’re on a path to redeveloping all of Important Avenue, in addition to Water Avenue and the Causeway Waterfront Zone.”
The mayor stated a groundbreaking for Port Plaza has already been scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 9.
A listening to on the appliance is scheduled for the 7 p.m. Oct. 15 Planning Board assembly.
Seabra Meals makes a speciality of ethnic merchandise imported from Portugal, Spain, Brazil and different South American nations, in accordance with its web site. Headquartered in Newark, the family-owned enterprise operates supermarkets throughout the East Coast.
The household additionally owns The Armory, a restaurant in Perth Amboy, borough officers stated.
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