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AUGUST 26, 2010 VOL. 14, NO. 44
Blue Heron Pines East is up for sale, again
By
STEVE PRISAMENT
Staff Writer
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP –
Owner Ole Hansen & Sons Inc. is looking to develop or sell its 344-acre site on Tilton Road that has municipal approval for the construction of more than 900 homes. A sign at what was to be the Blue Heron Pines East Country Club offers the property as fully approved for development of 944 units. According to David Goddard, Hansen’s president and chief executive officer, “We are entertaining any and all development options for future use of the property.” These include residential homes under the current approvals, as well as any commercial and industrial development concepts that would fit the zoning for the property, he said. “There is even an option available to us to develop market-rate housing under the recently adopted legislation allowing for the conversion of a previously approved agerestricted community into a market rate residential community if it fits certain specific design criteria established by the law,” Goddard told The Current Wednesday, Aug. 18. The property is zoned commercial-industrial with a conditional use for age-restricted housing, he said. Hansen had a deal for K. Hovnanian to develop the property in 2007. See PINES on Page 23
Ex-fighter pilot, now Ram’s Head owner, has high praise for A.C. air show
By
STEVE PRISAMENT
Staff Writer
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP –
Some 350 Atlantic City Air Show workers were hosted to a volunteer briefing reception and dinner at Ram’s Head Inn Monday, Aug. 23. It was the seventh year the group was united courtesy of Harry Knowles and his family who own the restaurant on the White Horse Pike just west of the Garden State Parkway. “Dad’s heart really lies in being a pilot,” said son Wade Knowles, who is in charge of the local operation for the family, which also owns restaurants in West Orange. “We stay all three days for the air show. We love it.” According to his son, Harry Knowles works hard every day in the restaurants. “My mom does, too,” Wade Knowles said at Monday’s dinner. “She’s in The Manor (in West Orange) first every day. We’re a six-generation restaurant family.” Harry Knowles bought a “tavern-restaurant – the Moresque” on New Year’s Eve 1956-1957 at what became the family’s flagship restaurant The Manor in West Orange, he said Monday. “I worked as a waiter and I put out vending machines,” the senior Knowles said. “I didn’t see much future in the vending machine business so I sold that and bought the Moresque. We expanded it and it became The Manor.” In the mid-1970s he met Fred and Ethel Noyes when they were all members of the New Jersey Restaurant Association, Knowles said. The Noyes had developed Historic Smithville and sold it to open the Ram’s Head Inn at the site of the former Dutch Barn. “When she died in 1978, Fred called and asked if I’d be interested in buying it,” Knowles said. “I drove down to see the place. I was astounded by it. We restored the main building, put in a new kitchen and added parking lots.” Knowles, who was a P-47 fighter pilot in World War II, said he considers his family’s sponsorship of this event a highlight in his 53 years as a restaurateur. “We’re very proud to be a part of this each See PILOT on Page 23
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A free showing of the movies “Up” and “Race to Witch Mountain” on Friday, Aug. 20 drew kids of all ages out to the grass near Patriot Lake by the Municipal Complex on Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway Township. Above, Maddie Lewis, 11, and her brother Ray, 9, of Galloway Township share a blanket while waiting for the film to start. See more photos on Page 2.
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