{"id":1322,"date":"2015-06-28T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=1322"},"modified":"2015-06-28T08:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T08:01:35","slug":"new-apartments-in-kozys-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/places\/new-apartments-in-kozys-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"New Apartments in Kozy\u2019s Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Momentum \u2013 New Apartments in Kozy\u2019s Parking Lot<\/h3>\n

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September 2013 Site Plan for Luxury Apartments to be Built on the Previous Site of the Parking Lot for Joe\u2019s Kozy Bar and Club Bene. Image Courtesy of HighviewHomesLLC.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the sad wake of the demolition of the complex of buildings which had previously made up Joe\u2019s Kozy Bar and Club Bene, springs new life in the one-time parking lot in the form of, according to the builder Highview Homes, LLC<\/a>, \u201c148 luxury residential rental units, along with a 2,820 square foot\u00a0clubhouse and pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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View of the Future Site of Morgan Luxury Apartments – January 2015. Image Courtesy of Paul During.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you to one of my childhood neighbors, and very long time Morgan resident Paul During, for the above photo of Kozy\u2019s parking lot looking toward the main channel of Lockwood Boat Works (75 years young this year) and the below photo of the foundation of one of the new three story apartment buildings being constructed.<\/p>\n

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Foundation Slabs for Future Three Story Tall Morgan Luxury Apartments \u2013 June 2015. Image Courtesy of Paul During.<\/p><\/div>\n

What nearly no one knows this that this parking lot site, adjacent to the main channel of Lockwood Boat Works, was once part of the massive T. A. Gillespie Loading Company which had its short life in 1918 (the plant blew up!).\u00a0 As the below map shows, there was housing for Laborers, the Commissary, and the southernmost part of a small hospital.\u00a0 It floored me the first time I saw this map that there was once a hospital on Route 35 across from Midland Avenue.\u00a0 If you grew up in the area, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll be floored to learn this as well.\u00a0 Many Morgan residents will remember Elmira\u2019s, which later established the unique bar known as \u201cThe Bedroom\u201d where both my sister Linda and brother Doug once worked.\u00a0 I have some old menus from The Bedroom which will one day get posted to this web site.\u00a0 The T. A. Gillespie Loading Company Hospital seems to have been right about where Elmira\u2019s was later located (and now isn\u2019t).<\/p>\n

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Map Showing the 1918 T. A. Gillespie Loading Company Buildings Which Were Once Located at the Site of the Morgan Luxury Apartment Construction. This Map Shows the Original Course of the South Amboy \u2013 Keyport Road, now Route 35 and Old Spye Road. Image Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve read that present day residents in this area are very nervous that shabby housing will be built at this site.\u00a0 Based only on the Highview Homes web site showing images of their other developments, read from 3,000 miles away, the apartment complex looks like it should be quite nice.\u00a0 Guess we\u2019ll all see.\u00a0 As of the time of this writing (end of June 2015), the Highview Homes web site further indicates, \u201cWe expect to begin leasing in Sayreville either late summer or early fall. \u00a0More information on the progress of this development will be available later this spring and residents are expected to begin taking occupancy in late fall or winter of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally posted on June 28, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Momentum \u2013 New Apartments in Kozy\u2019s Parking Lot   In the sad wake of the demolition of the complex of buildings which had previously made up Joe\u2019s Kozy Bar and Club Bene, springs new life in the one-time parking lot in the form of, according to the builder Highview Homes, LLC, \u201c148 luxury residential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1322\/revisions\/1324"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}