Saturday, May 11, 2013
Also, the township finally awards its fifth (but not final) liquor license, among other top stories this week.
Where did Moorestown land in South Jersey Magazine's latest list of the top towns in the area? East Gate Square paid $1,030,000 for the license, but has provided few details about what it plans to do with it. What should be done with the existing library? Where should the police and municipal court go? The township is turning to experts for advice. The magazine's 2013 rankings came out Monday. "It gives me comfort knowing they'll always remember," says the son of a Moorestown officer killed in the line of duty. Our columnist fondly remembers her mother—and the many lessons she taught, from thrift shopping to spring cleaning. The majority of those arrested came from the suburbs to buy drugs, police said. These are just a few of the many …
East Gate Square paid $1,030,000 for the license, but has provided few details about what it plans to do with it.
Town council officially issued the fifth liquor license to East Gate Square Monday, 10 months after East Gate initially submitted its proposal. The owners of East Gate will pay Moorestown $1,030,000 for the license, $400,000 of which the township already received as a "good faith" deposit last July. East Gate’s proposal identified the Friendly’s restaurant on Nixon Drive as the possible future site of an “American-style bistro,” though no other details have been provided. Attempts to reach a representative of East Gate Square for comment were not immediately successful Monday. While the turnaround for issuing four liquor licenses to Moorestown Mall owner PREIT was much quicker, Mayor Stacey Jordan said the holdup did not fall on the …
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Updates on the municipal complex and the status of East Gate Square's liquor license proposal were provided at this week's Moorestown council meeting.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
For those who couldn’t make it to this week’s township council meeting, there were a few interesting items that didn’t make it into a full story, but were nonetheless noteworthy. Here are a few leftover tidbits from the meeting: Council will hold it next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, in the IT room at Moorestown High School.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Moorestown council members seemingly found a compromise Monday night between the will of the voters and a judge's ruling.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
CLARIFICATION: The amended ordinance passed by council last night confines the issuance of liquor licenses to just the SRC (Specially Restricted Commercial) zone on the south side of Route 38. _______________________ Caught between a judge’s ruling and the will of the voting public, township council tried to find a happy medium Monday night by confining alcohol to the Moorestown Mall and East Gate Square. After Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder ruled in East Gate’s favor and decreed the township couldn’t restrict liquor licenses to the mall, the township faced multiple options, ranging from an appeal to amending the ordinance passed earlier this year, which imposed the mall liquor restriction. Solicitor Thomas Coleman, after …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The township attorney laid out council's options, but they haven't made a decision yet.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Members of township council met Wednesday to hash out their options after a judge ruled they couldn’t confine alcohol to the Moorestown Mall, but won’t make any decisions until Monday at the earliest. Council met behind closed doors for roughly an hour while solicitor Thomas Coleman brought them up to speed on the decision rendered by Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder last month. Ruling on a lawsuit brought against the township by East Gate Square, Bookbinder shot down a township ordinance aimed at restricting the issuance of licenses to the mall, and also invalidated the second referendum question. Township manager Scott Carew said Coleman presented council with various options for how to move forward during the executive session. “…
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The township is faced with a few options after a judge ruled it couldn't restrict alcohol to the Moorestown Mall.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Members of council will meet this week to discuss the township's options after Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder shot down their ability to restrict liquor licenses to the Moorestown Mall. Council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the conference room at the township offices at 2 Executive Dr. The sole item on the agenda is the adoption of a resolution to go into closed session to discuss the outcome and implications of the East Gate lawsuit. The owners of the East Gate Square shopping center sued the township earlier this year, claiming its restriction of the issuance of liquor licenses to the mall was illegal, citing—among other things—the fact that the shopping center is in the same zone (Specially Restricted Commercial) …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Following Judge Ronald Bookbinder's decision last week in favor of East Gate, Moorestown Township Council will discuss their options at a public meeting this week.
UPDATE: A meeting has still not been scheduled to discuss the outcome of the East Gate lawsuit, township manager Scott Carew said Monday. He said the township is looking at the end of this week or early next week (after the Labor Day holiday on Monday) to hold the meeting. _________________________ Township council will meet this week to discuss its options after Judge Ronald Bookbinder sided with East Gate in its lawsuit over the township's ability to restrict liquor licenses. Bookbinder ruled last week the township couldn't confine the sale of alcohol to the Moorestown Mall, and invalidated both the township ordinance imposing the restriction and the second referendum question the ordinance was based on. Township attorney Thomas …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Judge Ronald Bookbinder ruled the township can't keep the sale of alcohol confined to the Moorestown Mall, despite the result of the November referendum.
UPDATE: Check out the attached PDF to read Judge Bookbinder's complete ruling in the East Gate case. ________________________ A judge ruled Wednesday that the township’s attempt to restrict alcohol sales to the Moorestown Mall is invalid, along with the votes of thousands of residents who supported the restriction. East Gate Square sued the township back in April, arguing its restriction of the issuance of liquor licenses to the mall constituted spot zoning and was illegal. The township imposed the restriction in accordance with the will of the voters, who cast their ballots (by a margin of 3,750-2,876) in favor of keeping alcohol at the mall. However, Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder couldn’t find any reasonable justification for …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Attorneys were supposed to argue the case before Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder today, but the hearing was moved to next week.
A hearing on East Gate Square's liquor license lawsuit against the township originally scheduled for this afternoon has been moved to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21. East Gate sued the township earlier this year, arguing its restricton of the issuance of liquor licenses to the Moorestown Mall was unlawful. Attorneys were set to argue the case in front of Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder today, but the hearing was moved while both sides seek more information. In other Moorestown legal news, attorneys involved in STEM's (Save The Environment of Moorestown) lawsuit against the township over the use of Open Space funds are scheduled to hold another conference call with Bookbinder sometime tomorrow (Thursday), according to attorney Donald …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Council voted unanimously to award four licenses—at $1 million apiece—to the Moorestown Mall owner, which expects to have restaurants open by next spring.
Township council formally awarded four liquor licenses to PREIT Monday, but representatives from the Moorestown Mall owner who attended the council meeting were still mum on which restaurants those licenses will be used for. “We’re in deep negotiations with tenants, and we’re as anxious as anybody,” said Bruce Goldman, executive vice president. “We want to be able to announce (what the restaurants are) as much as people want to hear.” Because state law restricts an entity (or an individual) to only holding two liquor licenses at a time, PREIT set up two subsidiary companies—Moorestown Beverage I, LLC and Moorestown Beverage II, LLC—so it could be awarded the licenses. PREIT is in the process of undergoing the proper verifications—e.g. …
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4:26 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
I completely agree with you, PREIT is free to do as they please with the licenses, as is East Gate. I wonder if things would have been any different if the pitch by PREIT had been “we are hoping for Vetri style restaurants but might settle for Fridays, Applebee’s or Ott’s type establishments and there’s no way legally to restrict licenses to the mall”? more ›