Tenants in what is known to residents as the McCaffrey’s shopping center on the corner of Southfield Road and Route 571 will soon have all of their names on a new, bigger sign.
According to Sam Surtees, the Division of Land Use manager, a permit for the new 165-square-foot sign was issued last month, and officials from the Heller Group picked up the permit on April 6.
A sign was approved at the Planning Board last April, but it was several months before the property owner submitted plans for resolution compliance after the Planning Board meeting. The initial plans contained several problems, and it took another several months before revised plans were submitted, Surtees said. Finally, the permit was approved.
A few years ago, the township amended its sign ordinance to allow signs up to 165-square feet, but the ordinance limited the number of tenant identifications to six. “They wanted to increase it to 20 so that all of their tenants could have identification signs,” said Surtees.
The Planning Board approved the application, and the new sign — which also renames the shopping center to McCaffrey’s Center, instead of its current Southfield Shopping Center — will have 20 tenant identifications.
The sign currently on site is only 48-square feet and was added when the shopping center was built in the 1990s. The new sign will be three times as big.
