{"id":9956,"date":"2016-12-16T00:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2016-12-16T00:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:50:02","slug":"bricks-visitation-relief-center-to-reopen-in-shopping-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/12\/bricks-visitation-relief-center-to-reopen-in-shopping-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick’s Visitation Relief Center to Reopen in Shopping Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The now-shuttered Pathmark supermarket in Brick\u2019s Laurel Square shopping center. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Visitation Relief Center, shuttered since October over a lack of permits and inspections<\/a> at its Mantoloking Road location, is planning to reopen at a vacant storefront in a Brick shopping center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping to reopen soon after the new year,\u201d said Fr. Edward Blanchett, pastor of the Visitation Roman Catholic Church. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working with the township trying to move the [certificate of occupancy]\u00a0process through as quickly as is reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The relief center\u2019s new location will be in the Laurel Square shopping center, which currently houses a K-Mart store and previously was home to a Pathmark supermarket. The center is moving to a vacant storefront in the shopping center that used to house Nick Catone\u2019s MMA & Fitness.<\/p>\n

A permit to occupy the\u00a05,266 square foot space was issued Wednesday, said Daniel Newman, township construction official.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relief center includes a mixed use of business offices and mercantile space,\u201d Newman said, in an e-mail. \u201cThe mercantile area will include a food pantry while office space will be used to provide other services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blanchett said the relief center, when reopened, will operate as a supermarket-style food pantry to tackle long-term food insecurity issues in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things the VRC is doing is re-examining a lot of their activities,\u201d he said. \u201cIt first dealt with solving the immediate problems after Sandy, and now it\u2019s positioning itself to provide long-term aid to the community. One of those things would be the food pantry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately,\u00a0Blanchett said, the goal of the VRC is move back into its original building at 725 Mantoloking Road, adjacent to the church. In the mean time, the VRC\u2019s new home will allow the nonprofit agency to serve its clients, most of whom have been referred to other agencies since the center closed, or have received help from the parish\u2019s St. Vincent de Paul Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of those groups just don\u2019t have the resources the VRC had,\u201d said Blanchett.<\/p>\n

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