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Plans for Controversial 200,000+ SF Warehouse on Pleasant Valley Ave. Proceed
By JANEL “JAYCEE” MILLER,
1 day ago
The top part of this image shows how 907 Pleasant Valley Ave. looked in May 2023, while the bottom part shows how the same section of the road looked in July 2024. Credits: Janel "Jaycee" Miller
MOUNT LAUREL, NJ — Plans for the construction of a 214,665-square-foot cold storage warehouse at 907 Pleasant Valley Avenue that several Mount Laurel residents had sought to keep from being built appeared to be underway recently.
A TAPinto Mount Laurel reporter drove past the site on July 23 and observed that the building originally on the property was gone and several construction vehicles were on site.
In an e-mail, Bill Giegerich, the Township’s Economic and Community Development Director, told TAPinto Mount Laurel that there was “no timetable yet on when it might be completed, but the estimate would be sometime in the first half of next year.”
TAPinto Mount Laurel has previously reported how, over the course of multiple meetings in 2023, the Mount Laurel Planning Board approved NJ Mount Laurel Pleasant’s application to tear down the empty office building that once stood at the site and turn it into a 214,665-square-foot cold storage warehouse. Various manufacturers would ship their fresh, frozen, and pantry food items to the warehouse, and trucks would take these items to grocery stores.
Several Mount Laurel residents had voiced their concerns over the construction of the warehouse, citing truck traffic, noise, lighting, stormwater runoff and landscaping at the site as potential problems. Several Planning Board members also had questions about the warehouse, some of which echoed the concerns of residents and additional concerns such as the warehouse’s height, façade, and length of time items would be stored in the warehouse. The Planning Board’s approval was contingent upon the applicant’s willingness to address 22 different conditions, including some that addressed these concerns.
Giegerich told the TAPinto Mount Laurel reporter it was too early to say if the applicant had met those conditions.
“They are basically just clearing the ground at this point,” he said in the e-mail. “The 22 conditions set forth in the resolution… deal with project completion.”
Lawyers from Archer & Greiner PC, who represented the applicant during the Planning Board meetings, did not return TAPinto Mount Laurel’s request for comment. An e-mail sent to the applicant's point of contact also requesting comment came back as undeliverable.
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