There are many vacant buildings along the White Horse Pike.
In Mullica, the partially built Devonshire Motor Lodge has puzzled passers-by for decades, said Hammonton resident and Egg Harbor City attorney Jim Schroeder. The outer shell of the building went up about 30 years ago and was never finished, he said.
Broker-owner Charles Maimone, of Century 21 Reilly Realtors in Berlin, Camden County, said he is in negotiations for a sale of the 20,000-square-foot building shell, on 12.9 acres. It is listed for $395,000.
The building was meant to provide overnight accommodation, Maimone said, but the owner stopped building it when his pre-cast construction company got too busy. “So it sat,” Maimone said.
Then the township rezoned the property from commercial to forest, he said, taking away any potential for development for years. About two years ago, new officials zoned it back to commercial.
Mullica Mayor Jim Brown said it’s one of the properties he would most like to see put to good use.
“It’s an ideal site in a wide-open area,” he said. “There’s no congestion. Entrances and exits already exist. It’s the kind of location I think would be a good site for some kind of warehousing or light industrial, or any kind of office building.”
He said the township’s economic advisory committee is working hard to bring businesses to the pike in Mullica, and revenue into the township’s coffers.
“We have got a lot of irons in the fire,” Brown said, “from meetings with realtors, banks and private individuals. I can’t talk about them yet.”
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I hope that the people interested in the Inn are not the ones who wanted to put in a halfway house for prisoners. That plan failed the planning board because the Inn was in the Forest Zone. Now that the Brown Administration changed the Inn to the Elwood Village, I don't know what will be allowed in.
I'm sure that the company that is in negotiations to buy the building has already received town approval for whatever they want to put in there. I just hope it's not a tax exempt, non profit drug rehab or something else that the county wants to throw here.
The only reason that the so-called "Devonshire Inn" is an eyesore is because the vegetation was illegally cleared some years ago and all the top soil was removed to prevent regrowth. The township should have forced the owner to reforest it.
There are a lot of commercial "eyesores" along the White Horse Pike, and not just in Mullica.
Def residential halfway house for drug offenders. Its already another "done deal" and our stupid mayor and current committee either doesn't know or care. Hell, they all live elsewhere in the township.
How do you know? Where can we get information?
The zoning would not allow a rehab there.
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