N.J. town has a dinosaur park and a Target. What it doesn’t have is a supermarket.
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
A South Jersey township has a dinosaur fossil park where visitors can dig for prehistoric souvenirs, a full-sized Target discount superstore and it’s expected to soon have up to three stops on a planned regional rail line expansion.
What Mantua Township doesn’t have is a supermarket or a high-end restaurant worthy of an available liquor license.
This has led to the township commissioning a study to look at ways to bring both to the township.
“We’re just trying to make a determination so that we can know for ourselves, firsthand, whether it is feasible for a grocery store to consider setting up shop,” Deputy Mayor Bob Zimmerman said. “We have friends, neighbors and constituents who come to us and say, ‘Why don’t we have a grocery store?’