Bogey's Waterfront Restaurant; New City Wards? O'Donnell's Big Change; Toll Hikes are Coming in New Jersey
Wednesday, December 08, 2021
CNBNews TIPS AND SNIPPETS:
The waterfront restaurant being built on vacant ground owned by the Bogey family is located on the borderline of Westville and Brooklawn at the intersection of Route 47 and Creek Road. The nearby City of Gloucester City has been trying to build a waterfront eatery for 37 years. Why do you think that City can't get the job done? (photo credit CNBNews)
Related: Site Work Has Begun For New Brooklawn Circle Waterfront Bar/Restaurant
William E. Cleary Sr. | CNBNews
BROOKLAWN'S WATERFRONT RESTAURANT--Some construction work has started on the proposed waterfront restaurant that will be built on property owned by Donald and Svitlana Bogey. The ground borders the Big Timber Creek and is fronted by Route 47 and Creek Road. Building equipment and supplies have been stacked on the grounds and it appears the building foundation work has started.
The Bogey’s received the okay to proceed with their plans from the Brooklawn Borough Planning Board in May.
Nearby the City of Gloucester City has been trying to build a similar restaurant on the Delaware River since 1985 or for 37 years. Over that period of time taxpayers have spent an estimated $1 million just on plans and studies.
So how come Brooklawn is going to have a waterfront restaurant long before Gloucester City? In our opinion the reason can be narrowed down to one factor, the government is not involved in the project, it is private business that is building the Brooklawn restaurant. In Gloucester City it is the complete opposite, the City fathers and planning officials want to micro manage the restaurant construction right down to what color table cloths and window curtains, said one developer we spoke with.
The Brooklawn restaurant will consist of a 6,000-square-foot building and engulf approximately two acres. About 3,300 square feet of existing retail space would be demolished to make way for the project, as would about 850 square feet currently used as a garage, said Brittany L'Esperance, a civil engineer retained by the developers.
She said docks that can accommodate four boats at the site "are intended for restaurant patrons only that are interested in arriving by water."
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Gloucester City Municipal Clerk Vanessa Parent is meeting with representatives of the Camden County Board of Elections to discuss a possible change in the City's Wards. Aerial view of the west side of Gloucester City courtesy of Brian Kushner
WARDS MAY BE REDRAWN IN Gloucester City, Camden City, and Township of Winslow…The Camden County Board of Elections is holding its first meetings of the Ward Commissions for the purpose of formally appointing Ward Commissioners and discussing the development of new ward boundaries in the City of Camden, City of Gloucester and the Township of Winslow.
The meeting will be held on Friday, December 10, 2021. at the Camden County Regional Emergency Training Center located at 420 Woodbury-Turnersville Road in the Lakeland section of Blackwood.
CNBNews was doing research for another article when we discovered a legal notice announcing this meeting. Vanessa Parent, Gloucester City Municipal Clerk said she will be representing the City at the meeting.
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The nearly 100 year-old O'Donnell's Bar and Restaurant is now hosting Live Entertainment. The new name is O'Donnell's Time Out II, Entertainment Pub and Grill. It sits so close to the Walt Whitman Bridge you can hear the traffic traveling on it. (photo CNBNews)
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AT O'DONNELL'S--Long-time Gloucester City residents who gathered weekly for dinner and cocktails at O’Donnell’s Restaurant decades ago would be surprised to see that their favorite eatery has become a hot spot for live entertainment.
Mark Mathews the editor of 42Freeway visited the City recently to interview Cheryl and Bob the latest owners of the 100 year-old bar, which is trading now as O'Donnell's Time Out II Entertainment Pub & Grill. It is located at 401 N. Broadway.
Over the past ten years or more, there have been numerous owners of O’Donnells but none of them have been able to attract a following. And, although each new owner tried, they could never match the O’Donnell’s family’s reputation for great seafood, clam chowder, rye bread, great prices, and delicious manhattans that was their trademark.
It has been closed for two years.
Cheryl and Bob operated the original Time Out Bar in Barrington.
Mathews writes,
Today the Time Out II Pub is a nice local spot to hang out at the bar chatting with friends or catching the game, grab a bite to eat from their pub menu (which will be getting an overhaul), or enjoy a variety of live entertainment options from weekend live rock bands, to open mics and even karaoke!
On Friday they even had a Happy Hour Dance with Jeff Corbett “Dancing to the Oldies but Goodies”!
Inside, the bar restaurant is bright and open… everything has been refreshed, and if your memories of O’Donnell’s are the old-school family restaurant from a decade ago than you are really in for a Wow moment!
Time Out II at O’Donnell’s is located at 401 North Broadway in Gloucester City NJ. They are at the farthest end of Broadway… sitting almost under the Walt Whitman Bridge.
Tolls on New Jersey Turnpike, Atlantic City Express andGarden State Parkway to increase once again, come January 1
Gas prices are skyrocketing, food prices are up, your money is buying less, inflation is here to stay, thanks to Uncle Joe, so it should be no surprise for all of us living in the most heavily taxed state in the nation to see our highway toll prices increasing again.
You are cruel bastard Mr. GRINCH.
South Jersey Transportation Authority officials are increasing Atlantic City Expressway tolls next year, joining the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, which also will see a toll hike on Jan. 1, according to a report by NJ.com
Expressway tolls will increase by 3% under an automatic toll indexing plan — a process that was approved with the May 2020, 37% toll increases and $500 million capital plan.
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