Scotch Plains To Vote On Future Of Bowcraft Tonight

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ — The iconic beloved family amusement park, Bowcraft, may soon be no more. Housing will most likely occupy the property off Route 22 is the Scotch Plains Planning Board passes a vote Wednesday night to designate it as a redevelopment area.

This vote would allow the township to negotiate a financial agreement, a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), with the would-be developers, ATA Developers to make way for a housing development, according to mycentraljersey.com.

The Planning Board had previously unanimously approved Bowcraft Amusement Park's application for the development in September of 2016 and the developers got approval to demolish the property in December.

The project would consist of 190 apartments and 10 townhomes on the Bowcraft property. It will include 40 affordable housing units, a swimming pool, a club house, and 403 parking spaces.

It is unclear when demolition would begin if the board passes the plan on Wednesday.

Bowcraft has been owned by the same family since 1995 and had previously denied claims of the housing project in 2016. They remained open in 2017 and are still open as of September in 2018.

A call to Bowcraft for comment was not returned to Patch.

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