Monday, September 17, 2012
Acclaimed Philadelphia chef Marc Vetri plans to open a second Osteria at the Moorestown Mall, according to a PREIT spokeswoman.
It's official. Nearly a year after entering into talks with PREIT, world-renowned Philadelphia chef Marc Vetri has signed a lease agreement to open a restaurant at the Moorestown Mall. PREIT spokeswoman Judy Trias said Vetri signed the lease late last week, only a few days after PREIT, which owns the Moorestown Mall, was formally awarded four liquor licenses. She said the restaurant will be a version of Vetri's Osteria, located on Broad Street in Philadelphia. The original Osteria opened in 2007 and has been consistently recognized as one of the best restaurants in the city. Vetri himself leaked the news Friday, tweeting, "Let's see if you can figure out what this means!!!! BOOM!!!," with a picture of the lease agreement attached. "…
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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 …
Monday, September 10, 2012
Moorestown council could resolve five major issues tonight, including the scope of liquor licenses and improvements to Wesley Bishop North.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Tonight’s council meeting looks to be a memorable one, with the possible resolution of five major projects/initiatives on the docket. The following is a sampling of what’s on the agenda: The council meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the IT room at Moorestown High School. Check out the above attached PDF to see the full meeting agenda.
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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 …
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Moorestown township manager Scott Carew says the township has enough revenue and savings coming its way to offset the many projects on its plate.
A rough sketch of Moorestown’s fiscal future shows it has enough money to complete most of its major capital projects—without having to raise taxes. After Councilman Mike Testa voted against a bond ordinance to fund improvements to the Church Street Recreation Center, claiming he needed to know what the tax impact would be, financial officer Tom Merchel prepared a budgetary outline laying out every financially significant project currently on the township’s plate. The sum total of the projects on the list—including $13.3 million for the new municipal complex, $690,000 for the rec center, and $1.4 million for Wesley Bishop North—came to $19 million. Township manager Scott Carew said, based on Merchel’s projections, that $19 million would …
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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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder is expected to rule on the East Gate Square lawsuit this month, along with one part of the Open Space lawsuit.
From a strictly legal perspective, August could be a watershed month for Moorestown. At 10 a.m. Friday, Superior Court Judge Ronald Bookbinder is expected to rule on an injunction filed against the township by attorney Jeffrey Baron to keep it from spending money out of the Open Space, Recreation, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund for field improvements at Wesley Bishop North. Baron also filed a complaint against the township, on behalf of STEM (Save the Environment of Moorestown), to completely block its use of the fund for the field project. Township council voted 3-2 last week to appropriate money from the fund for the $1.5 million project. Baron contends the language in the township's interpretative statement on the 2007 …
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Council will discuss improvements at Wesley Bishop South and the municipal complex project next Tuesday, and Moorestown Mall owner PREIT plans to attend the next meeting.
For those who couldn’t make it to Monday night’s township council meeting, there were a few items on the agenda 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 its next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6 in the IT room at Moorestown High School.
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don cheech
9:42 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
hopefully it wont cost $600 a couple to eat at his moorestown location. more ›