Friday, January 18, 2013
Shell's owners propose eliminating car wash, building 7-Eleven at Newman Springs Road/Shrewsbury Avenue site
A Red Bank gas station/convenience store will begin making a case next month in objection to the prospect of a neighboring gas station/convenience store expanding its services with a 7-Eleven. Representatives from applicant 390 Red Bank LLC completed their testimony Thursday before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, which is considering whether to allow the Shell station at the corner of Newman Springs Road and Shrewsbury Avenue to knock down the exisiting market and build a 7-Eleven on site. The Shell owners are proposing to convert the existing 515-square-foot market to a 362-square-foot kiosk for gas attendants and remove the current rollover car wash in favor of a 2,225-square-foot 7-Eleven at the northwest corner of the site. The …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Zoning board will hear testimony at special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday
Residents partial to 7-Eleven's Slurpees, packaged sandwiches and coffee varieties may one day have three options to choose from within Red Bank alone. The Zoning Board of Adjustment will continue hearing a proposal Thursday night that seeks to replace the existing market at the Shell station at the corner of Newman Springs Road and Shrewsbury Avenue with a 7-Eleven. If ultimately successful, the 7-Eleven would join the existing outlet on Maple Avenue as well as the future store planned for the existing Welsh Farms on East Front Street. However, late-night munchies wouldn't be satisfied at all three stores. The Maple Avenue and proposed Shell station outlets would run 24/7 while the coming East Front market will be open only from 6 a.m. …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Red Bank Planning Board agrees to settlement proposed by applicant wishing to convert Welsh Farms
A legal settlement has been reached that allows the Welsh Farms at East Front Street to be converted into a 7-Eleven. However, Red Bank's second 7-Eleven will not operate overnight after a legal fight that saw the denial of the property owner's application, the adoption of a "noise ordinance" and a suit that ended up in Superior Court. The borough Planning Board unanimously agreed Monday night to accept a settlement proposed by applicant Dina Enterprises and end litigation concerning the denial of their bid to convert the store. Under the agreement, the 7-Eleven would operate from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., mirroring the hours found in the "noise ordinance," which restricts retail businesses located within 100 feet of residential housing from …
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Antique penny tray stolen from 7-Eleven, among other crimes this week.
Undoubtedly you've seen the Take-a-Penny, Leave-a-Penny trays on convenience store checkout counters. They're the ones that help you avoid breaking a new bill or give you a tiny bit of personal satisfaction when you contribute to help someone else avoid breaking another bill. Well, not everyone gets it. A Red Bank 7-Eleven employee alerted police recently to a theft in which someone decided not to take a penny, but to take the entire penny tray instead, which just happened to be an antique Dutch Masters cigar penny tray. Now no one gets to take a penny. According to Red Bank Police the incident took place at the Maple Avenue 7-Eleven on Oct. 1. An unknown male swiped the penny tray and left the store. No arrests have been made in the …
Monday, May 21, 2012
A noise ordinance prohibiting 24-hour businesses all but sealed the deal for a developer looking to convert a convenience store into a 7-Eleven.
Though Philip San Filippo, the attorney for Dina Enterprises, was able to give his closing remarks Monday night, the culmination of a months-long application set before the Red Bank Planning Board to convert a Welsh Farms convenience store on Front Street into a 7-Eleven, it might not have mattered much. With a recently instituted quality of life ordinance prohibiting new businesses from operating 24-hours a day within 100 feet of a residential neighborhood, the board, technically, had no other choice but to deny the application on the grounds that it did not fall within the restrictions of borough law. Dina Enterprises had been looking for site plan approval to construct an expansion to house a refrigerator, include illuminated signs, and…
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Red Bank Council introduced an ordinance prohibiting retail establishments located within 100 feet of a residential neighborhood from operating between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Under the guise of an ordinance designed to curb late night noise, Red Bank Council has effectively banned new businesses in close proximity to residential neighborhoods from operating 24 hours a day. The quality of life ordinance was approved on first reading Wednesday night and prohibits retail establishments located within 100-feet of a zoned residential neighborhood from operating between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. every day. According to council, the ordinance was arrived at after police records indicated that after hour businesses and 24-hour businesses regularly attracted more complaints and police calls than those businesses with regular hours. Currently, there are several 24-hour businesses in Red Bank, including two convenience stores - …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The attorney for an applicant looking to convert a Welsh Farms into a 7-Eleven is granted an extension, delaying voting once again.
At some point there's going to be a vote. At a Red Bank Planning Board meeting Monday night, Philip San Filippo, the attorney representing Dina Enterprises, asked the board to put off on voting on his client's proposed plan to convert a Welsh Farms convenience store on E. Front Street into a 24-hour 7-Eleven. A vote on the plan was expected Monday after the board carried the application from its last meeting in order to better accommodate the public hearing portion and San Filippo's closing arguments. After a few public comments and about 20 minutes, however, San Filippo asked the board to carry the application because of a couple of absent board members, to which the board acquiesced. Dina Enterprises is seeking several minor variances to…
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Debate over a proposed 7-Eleven continues in Red Bank with discussion about the true motives of a 37-year-old site plan approval.
In 1975, Red Bank's then council granted site plan approval to the operators of a convenience store on the corner of Spring and East Front Streets, a site now home to a Welsh Farms, with a couple of minor conditions. Now, Philip San Filippo, the attorney for Dina Enterprises, the group looking to turn the Welsh Farms into a 24-hour-a-day 7-Eleven, says not one of them has anything to do with the store's hours of operations. At the borough's Planning Hoard meeting Monday night, those operating hours were again the primary topic of discussion. For decades the Welsh Farms - as well as previous stores - has operated daily under a 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. schedule. San Filippo says that schedule doesn't matter, that the owner of the convenience store …
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Testimony for a proposed 7-Eleven conversion on Front Street centers on site plan approval granted more than 35 years ago.
Professionals for an applicant looking to convert a Welsh Farms convenience store into a 7-Eleven don't understand why it should matter that a store that has closed at 10 p.m. every night for the past several decades could be allowed to operate 24 hours a day. According to site plan approvals in Red Bank history, they argue, it's not even a relevant issue. At the Red Bank Planning Board meeting Monday night, Dina Enterprises presented its case for several relatively minor variances to facilitate the conversion of the Welsh Farms on the corner of Front and Spring Streets into a 7-Eleven. Among the variances they seek are an illuminated sign - one they say will be less bright than the one currently installed - and a proposed 356-square foot …
Sal
4:46 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Every small business today has a very difficult time of generating sales that are high enough to pay the costs and provide income for their owners. This is not Exxon Vs Shell___it is one small business owner Vs another small business owner the run/manage/own those sites. Both of those business owners pay very high real estate taxes and create employment and provide a public service. Unless town … more ›