This town has its second Chipotle Mexican Grill — and its first Chipotlane.

The new restaurant, which opened Thursday at Route 70 and Brace Road, is part of an ongoing expansion in South Jersey and elsewhere by the California-based chain.

It also reflects a growing preference for the Chipotlane —a drive-thru lane that allows customers to pick up digital orders without leaving their cars.

The lanes do not take conventional drive-thru orders.

The owner of the Short Hills Town Center in Cherry Hill plans two new retail/office buildings where several shops were destroyed by fire in March last year.

Parking for the new development on Evesham Road would include spaces at the site of the former Tír na NÓg restaurant, which was demolished last year. The restaurant was in the Short Hills farmhouse, which was more than 100 years old.

A Starbucks restaurant, which was in the building destroyed by fire, would anchor the proposed retail building. The Starbucks would have a drive-up window, which the former one did not, according to plans filed with the Cherry Hill Zoning Board of Adjustment by owner Town Center at Short Hills Cherry Hill LLC of Old Bridge, Middlesex County.

The proposal is scheduled to go before the zoning board on March 18, although possible site plan changes could delay the presentation, according to the township.

Short Hills’ plans call for:

• A 10,560-square-foot retail building that includes a 2,241-square-foot Starbucks with a dining patio. Plans show another tenant occupying 2,275 square feet and four tenants occupying the remainder of the space. Starbucks is the only named tenant in the plans. A restaurant might occupy the second large space, according to the plans.
• A 7,875-square-foot office/retail building with about equal space divided between two tenants. Plans indicate a doctor’s or dentist’s office could occupy the building.

Shops in the former building, which included Starbucks and the Classic Cake bakery, faced Evesham Road to the south. The new shops would face east, fronting a parking lot, according to the plans. Starbucks and its drive-through lanes would face Evesham Road.

The owner also proposes right-turn entrance and right-turn exit driveways into the shopping area. The site now has only a right-turn-out exit. The shops and offices also can be accessed from Short Hills Drive.

70and73.com reported last July that the cause of the fire was “undetermined,” according to a report from Cherry Hill Chief Fire Marshal Thomas Shemeley.

However, a joint investigation by insurance investigators and others representing parties in the fire insurance claim determined that, at the time of the fire, a developer was adding a new transformer and during a switchover from the old transformer the conductors for part of the plaza were cross connected with the new transformer, energizing the neutral leg of the wiring system when power was restored, according to Shemeley’s report.

*Article Courtesy of 70and73.com

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The TD Bank in Cherry Hill is among the 81 closing across the country, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday.

The TD Bank in Cherry Hill is among 81 stores across the country and 13 in New Jersey that are slated to close, the bank said on Friday.

A TD Bank spokesperson confirmed with Patch Friday that the bank at 1506 Berlin Road in Cherry Hill is among those slated to close.

The decision to close the 81 stores, roughly 6 percent of the company’s total storefronts, comes as part of a continuing re-evaluation of how TD Bank serves customers, according to a statement from the company.

“In reaching a decision to close specific TD Bank stores, we consider many business factors, including the number of customers visiting our stores, transaction volumes, the location’s proximity to other TD Bank stores and the number of customers who use multiple store locations,” company officials said.

The bank has already begun notifying customers of the closures.

Layoffs are likely to follow this news, according to an NJ.com report, but the company hasn’t revealed how many employees will be affected. The publication also reported that the stores will close as of April 23.

Here are the 13 storefronts to close:

• 601 College Drive, Blackwood
• 1506 Berlin Road, Cherry Hill
• 351 Midland Avenue, Garfield
• 1636 Route 38, Lumberton
• 571 New York Avenue, Lyndhurst
• 688 Paramus Road, Paramus
• 430 N Beverwyck Road, Parsippany
• 5 State Highway 31, Pennington
• 536 N Maple Avenue, Ridgewood
• 129 South Black Horse Pike, Runnemede
• 10 Mule Road, Toms River
• 361 Union Boulevard, Totowa
• 560 North Avenue E, Westfield

*Article Courtesy of Smart News

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Hobby Lobby is opening two new craft stores in New Jersey in 2021, the company has announced.

A Cherry Hill location is expected to open in January, with a Paramus store following suit in February. The Cherry Hill store will be located at Hillview Shopping Center on Route 38, and the Paramus store will be located at 545 NJ 17. Both stores will take storefronts vacated by Babies R Us.

Both locations are looking to hire between 35 and 50 employees, with full-time pay of $17 an hour and part-time pay of $12 or $11 an hour, depending on the location.

“The success of our stores in New Jersey is a good indicator that Cherry Hill (and Paramus) shoppers will be pleased with the quality, selection and value we offer in the craft and home decor market,” said Director of Advertising Kelly Black.

Hobby Lobby stores sell a mix of craft supplies and home decor. All stores are open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and are closed on Sundays.

*Article Courtesy of NJ.com

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CHERRY HILL – The Ellisburg Shopping Center has stood for decades at Route 70 and North Kings Highway.

But a proposal to add two restaurants there offers a trip down a more figurative road — Memory Lane.

A document filed with Cherry Hill’s planning board lists scores of tenants who have come and gone at one of the town’s oldest retail centers.

The parade of stores includes long-forgotten names like discounter W.T. Grant in the ‘60s and ‘70s, vaguely remembered merchants like Blockbuster Video in the 1980s, and modern merchants like Whole Foods Market.

The filing’s intended to assess environmental conditions at the 27.8-acre site. But it also provides a history lesson of sorts — showing the changes that have swept through South Jersey’s shopping scene.

Consider, for instance, that the plan calls for demolition of a gas station to make way for a free-standing restaurant — its tenant still to be found — off Kings Highway.

Another restaurant, part of the Florida-based BurgerFi chain, would occupy the current home of Mattress Firm. That building would undergo “partial demolition and a retrofit” to accommodate the restaurant, according to Richard Goldstein, an attorney for the shopping center’s owner.

Both restaurants would be around 3,000 square feet, with indoor and outdoor dining. Neither is expected to have a drive-thru service, Goldstein said.

The township planning board approved the proposal at its meeting Monday night, with member Marlyn Kalitan welcoming the pending change at a “historic” site.

“That’s where our first library,” she said, referring to a site that later became a post office and currently holds a Honey Grow restaurant.

The service station facing demolition, now known as US Gas, dates back to the shopping center’s origins in the mid-1960s. Back then, the report notes, it carried the name of a grocery chain — Food Fair Gas.

The assessment, which runs for more than 3,000 pages, notes other examples of once-vibrant stores making way for another generation.

For instance, it says, the Grant’s discount store was occupied by All In One Linen Outlet in 1984 and by Bed Bath & Beyond in 1999. Shoppers now know the site as Buy Buy Baby.

Another original tenant, S.S. Kresge, had vanished by 1980, when its site was occupied by Dee’s Appliances. The property was occupied in 2004 by Ross Dress for Less and most recently held Stein Mart, one of several tenants who’ve closed during the pandemic.

The shopping center’s past is relevant because some tenants, including the gas station, had an environmental impact.

For instance, the assessment notes heating-oil tanks were once buried behind a ShopRite supermarket and the adjacent Washamatic Laundry. Three dry cleaners operated at the site over the decades, it adds.

And it notes a 1992 report that found two tenants — Ellisburg Camera Shop and Perfect Photo and Cleaners — that developed pictures for their customers.

“Both of these facilities recover silver from the photographic development process and discharge their waste,’ said the earlier report, which noted chemicals in the stores included “developers, bleaching agents and corrosive materials.”

The analysis also cites “stained” soil behind the former Playdrome entertainment center, now The Big Event, which shared its building in 1984 with Chef Wang’s Szechuan Wok.

The stain likely occurred because someone from the bowling alley was pouring waste oil onto the soil, it says.

But the biggest impact likely came from the shopping center itself, which is owned by Maryland-based Federal Realty Investment Trust.

The sprawling complex rose at a site that had been used for farming or was forested since at least 1888, the document says. The shopping center appeared shortly after local residents voted in 1961 to change the municipality’s name from Delaware Township, setting the stage for a suburban boom.

Aerial photos in the report show the surrounding area becoming crowded with homes and commercial buildings after the shopping center’s arrival.

That intense growth in 1992 doomed a nearby roundabout that initially led traffic past open fields — and gave the complex its original name, Ellisburg Circle Shopping Center.

As one sign of the area’s evolution, the report notes, the traffic circle’s southeastern side — where a Chipotle is now under construction — once held a combination gas station and produce stand.

The retail complex now holds an L-shaped strip center, six outlying buildings and — the most recent addition — a solar field behind the Playdrome.

The report, prepared by California-based Partner Engineering and Science Inc., unearthed the shopping center’s past with help from township records and vintage telephone directories.

Its findings apparently overlooked a twin theater that drew crowds into the early ‘80s, before morphing into a sporting goods outlet, a book shop and a dollar store, among other uses.

But the document still notes long-departed tenants like a Sherwin-Williams paint store, Barsons Café & Deli, Stein’s Men’s & Boy’s Clothing, and a record shop from 1980 named Jingles.

*Article courtesy of Courier Post

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