Getting Ready for Amazon: Council to Consider Special Avenel Redevelopment Plan

A redevelopment plan that will include the Blair Road and Omar Avenue section of Avenel will be put before the township council tonight at its regular meeting.

The area designated in the agenda for the meeting includes the old C&S Wholesale Grocers building, where KTR Capital Partners was rumored in January to have a contract to

The C&S building has been humming with activity in recent days. Workmen have been putting a new roof on the warehouse, in probable preparation for Amazon's move into the neighborhood sometime next year.

The items for the council at tonight's meeting include a resolution put forward by Mayor John McCormac that the council approve that "certain properties" in that section of Avenel "are in need of redevelopment."

The properties to be added to redevelopment plan were not named on the council agenda. 

An accompanying ordinance will also be put before the governing body, that the newly devised Blair Road and Omar Avenue Redevelopment Plan be adopted.

There was no sign in the plan whether the properties, if designated as being in need of redevelopment, would be eligible for any special property tax breaks, such as the many Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) programs that many Woodbridge businesses use.

McCormac could not be reached for comment.

The council meeting will be held tonight at Town Hall at 7 pm.

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