The plan also outlines permitted uses as well as landscaping, fencing and buffer standards. Newton NJ Newton gets grant for new bike trail, approves school resource officer contract The redevelopment plan also requires infrastructure for future electric vehicle charging stations. It outlines things like lighting, signage and building design standards. The plan being submitted to the Planning Board is a general outline of standards the town expects as the two properties are developed. The armory complex was built in 1956 and abandoned by the state in 2008. The plan notes that the current grocery store was built in 1971. That space and the current parking lot closest to Route 206, was to be reconfigured with a couple of smaller building pads and expanded parking area in the front. In a 2008 redevelopment plan, Ronetco, a family-owned company which holds franchises for several ShopRite stores in New Jersey, showed a new store on the armory site with the current store to be torn down.
It is our goal to have the property revert back to the town by the end of this calendar year with some cleanup yet to occur which would become the responsibility of the designated redeveloper." Town Manager Tom Russo said the remnants of the cleanup are still in progress, but the approval process through the Planning Board will take some time.Īs a result, he said, "the plan and cleanup are running concurrently. That hillside was a 'hotspot' of lead from the bullets shot into it during military training. The 5.5 acre site contained underground fuel tanks, the armory building had asbestos and there was a shooting range with a small, sandy hill as the backstop. Under terms of the armory property being given to the state National Guard, ownership of the property returned to the town should it not need the armory.īut, also under terms of that same deal, the property had to be returned to the town after all environmental concerns had been addressed. However, redevelopment of the north side of South Park Drive is more than a decade in the waiting.
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