Whole Foods Proposal Resurfaces for Waterview Plaza

Despite a Parsippany-Troy Hills Township vote against creating an overlay zone that would allow the creation of a Whole Foods grocery store and 45,000-square-feet more of retail space, one developer is re-floating the same proposal nearly a year later.

According to dailyrecord.com, RD Management, who sued the township after its overlay zone request was denied, has posted on its website blueprints and renderings of a “future” development on the land at Waterview Plaza originally requested for use.

The proposal would include a 40,000 square-foot Whole Foods store, anchored by two 22,700-square-foot retail spaces, the report said. Also in the rendering are additional buildings and spaces amounting to more than 50,000-square-feet, the report said.

One major change in the new concept plan is the amount of housing. The original proposal included 60 town homes. The new blueprint shows no housing, the report said.

Meetings between RD Management and Parsippany's planning board and council lasted a year, with many sessions attended by hundreds of residents opposing the development. 

While the council had final say in the matter, the planning board approved the proposal earlier in the process. 

The financial implications, however, were grand. As previously reported in Patch, some $1.14 million was set to be brought in to the township as a result of the development.

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