Harrison Tp (Gloucester) Adds Redevelopment Area

Harrison Township in Gloucester County NJ has a new redevelopment area .  As reported by the Gloucester County Times, the area was designated in need of redevelopment in order to make PILOTs (Payments In Lieu Of Taxes) and other incentives available to the putative developer of the property who originally intended to construct single family residential dwellings on the property.  The area, officially known as Block 59, lots 12-14 and 17, is on the north side of Mill Road and Mullica Hill Road (Route 322), near Mill Pond.  In light of the current housing market, the municipality and the developer apparently are working together to see some development occur at this site.

Designation as an area in need of redevelopment means that the municipality now has at its disposal the constitutional right to clear or redevelop the “blighted” or “redevelopment area.”  The municipality also has the statutory  right to prepare a redevelopment plan and then select a redeveloper who may or may not be the current owner of the property.  Thereafter, the municipality may also exercise its power of eminent domain to take the private property.

We’ll see how their cooperative efforts progress.

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