Bellmawr Landfill Project: Dredging and Short Update

UPDATE: See image below

Two updates on the Bellmawr Landfill project. An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (7/27/2008) talks about the Bellmawr developer buying other South Jersey property that could affect dredging projects on the Delaware. In the article he gives an update on the Bellmawr project and comments on the soil being used in Bellmawr. Secondly, a few months back the developer updated their website with a few images of the current project plans. Each clearly depict "Bass Pro Shops: Outdoor world"

Philadelphia Inquirer Article: Dredging
Core of the article is about Maritime officials becoming concerned that a property in Logan currently slated for dredging soil from the Delaware has been purchased by Charles Gallub, the developer of the Bellmawr project. His plans for the Logan project have the maritime officials concerned that they will lose the property as a location for Delaware River dredging soils, as he currently has an arrangement with the New York Port Authority to receive dredged soils at Bellmawr... and their is a serious risk that his timelines are ahead of the Delaware project and he uses the NY soil for the Logan project.

From the Inquirer... the furor is "based on misinformation that's being spread around," Gallub said. He pledges that the site [Logan] will remain available to the river's maritime industry."

Specific to Bellmawr:
The article confirms that the Bellmawr property is receiving soil from the New York Port Authority. There apparently is a dredging project taking place in New York. They NY Port Authority is also managing the World Trade Center project, but there is no mention if any WTC soil is used in Bellmawr.

Quoted from the Inquirer article: "The material [Bellmawr fill] is treated to meet residential soil standards, one of highest levels of cleanliness. It is not what most people would consider New York-dredged material," Nogowski said.

Development:
In the article, Gallub says buildings will start going up in Bellmawr by the end of the year and the project was progressing nicely.

Also from the Inquirer article: "The first phase in Bellmawr, along Big Timber Creek, is expected to be completed in 2010. Gallub said it would include 600,000 square feet of retail and commercial space - a large retailer, a multiplex cinema, four hotels, four restaurants, and a regional visitors center".

Updated site plans:
A few months back, the development website http://www.bellmawrwaterfront.com/ updated their website to include new images of the project plans. I haven't had a chance to post about it until now. While some of the Bass fishing sites for the area are skeptical because there is nothing officially listed om the Bass Pro Shops Corporate Web site... the BellmawrWaterfront images CLEARLY show Bass Pro Shops is coming to town.

Images from the BellmawrWaterfront website (for larger images... please go to BellmawrWaterfront.com)

UPDATE:
New image: The developer updated the site map. It already has an updated layout from just 2 monthjs ago. You can clearly see an AMC movie theater, the hotel locations have moved to be closer to the water... and the large Retail location that is targeted to be a hunting and fishing outlet... simply says Retail right now.


Also.. the Patco speedline station is also clearly marked. The area closest to the Environmental center is labled as office, and the middle portion (deptford) is also all retail.


Nothing is labled "residential". Click for larger image.

Image1) Site map image shows placement of Bass Pro Shops store, the FOUR hotels, multiplex, and what I believe is a few residential buildings. (Even on the developers site, its tough to read the small images)

Image 2) Aerial Rendering showing the placement and design of the Bass Pro Shops. We've all seen the mountainous pile of dirt building up... especially on Rt 42... so this building will have a prominent location. Everyone on rt42 will see it! Also shown is a portion of the walking trail... which will circle the property and meet the needs of the GreenAcres reuse agreement.

Image 3) Streetscape rendering... Rendering of the main store...


For other information on the project (from my blogs):
Feb 28, 2008: Bass Pro Shops! Bellmawr pulls in a big fish?
Jan 27th, 2008: Bellmawr Council Meeting: Landfill Update
January 23rd, 2008: Public Hearing Jan 30: Rt 42/295/676 project
August 23, 2007: Council Meeting Update: Landfill discussed
March 27, 2007: Landfill Project Meeting Details
(Some of my earlier posts where done at the Courier Post and are now gone.... one of the reasons I stopped posting there. I like controlling the destiny of the articles)

Regarding the use of the images above... I captured these images from the BellmawrWaterfront.com website myself. I am emailing the developer to confirm its ok for me to use here. I really don't think he'd have an issue, but if he does... I'll remove and just ask people to go to the site.