Ocean Spray Leaving NJ
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That's a fairly big hit; over 200 employees and the taxes they must pay on half million sq ft facility on 60 acres will just add to it. To their credit they will keep the employee's if they want to follow the company. I wonder if their facility in Chatsworth will also be closed?
Another newspapers article.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/05/ocean_spray_to_close_bordentow.html
Quoted from the 2nd article:
“It’s just very disappointing,” said Assemblyman Joseph Malone, R-Bordentown. “It’s a different world now. With corporations, it’s not about loyalty anymore, it’s about bucks.” Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch said he was first notified of the potential move in September.
I think this Assemblyman has alot of nerve with this statement. Does he really think a business, any business, should remain in a state, any state, that does not make it adventageous for a company to operate. Let's give OS some credit here. It's not like they're moving out of the country or to a state on the other side of the county.
I'm usually against companys and their greed, but I think this statement about "loyalty" is uncalled for.
“It’s just very disappointing,” said Assemblyman Joseph Malone, R-Bordentown. “It’s a different world now. With corporations, it’s not about loyalty anymore, it’s about bucks.” Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch said he was first notified of the potential move in September.
I think this Assemblyman has alot of nerve with this statement. Does he really think a business, any business, should remain in a state, any state, that does not make it adventageous for a company to operate. Let's give OS some credit here. It's not like they're moving out of the country or to a state on the other side of the county.
I'm usually against companys and their greed, but I think this statement about "loyalty" is uncalled for.
With Ocean Spray gone, that should clear the way for the "Medfordization" of Chatsworth...
I could not find anywhere that says the Chatsworth facility will be closed. It is just a gathering station for the local growers and then the berries were shipped out. I doubt the local growers could afford to ship their berries to PA, but you never know.
I agree entirely. You can't create conditions that hurt businesses and then act indignant when they start leaving.
Two former employees of that plant worked where I work. In fact, one still works at our place on Saturdays. The plant was the oldest they had and they just needed a newer facility and maybe they wanted to get out of the state. I don't see Chatsworth closing. They need that for processing. Things will still be the same.
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With Ocean Spray gone, that should clear the way for the "Medfordization" of Chatsworth...
Medfordization?!
i think shamongization is a way damn better word for that
My Company moved from NJ to PA 5 years ago due to the cost of complying with extreme environmental regulations and permitting costs and we were a very basic research operation.
In reading further on this and as has been mentioned, there is no direct relationship between Chatsworth and the Bordentown plant.
All of the product gathered at Chatsworth is shipped and processed in Massachusetts where it is turned into a concentrate and then it was shipped to Bordentown to be made and packaged into various products.
In reading further on this and as has been mentioned, there is no direct relationship between Chatsworth and the Bordentown plant.
All of the product gathered at Chatsworth is shipped and processed in Massachusetts where it is turned into a concentrate and then it was shipped to Bordentown to be made and packaged into various products.
I lived there for many years - my daughter graduated from Shawnee and loved it. Finally moved away when they clearcut the woods next to my home and built two McMansions on lots that were way too small. It is still a nice town but has completely lost its pinelands village character - it's just a suburb now. I fear a similar fate awaits Chatsworth someday... sure hope that I'm wrong.
I cant argue with you, there are just simply too many people in medford and there is too much commerce - but i still love it here and perhaps outwardly it has lost the character of a pinelands village, but if the people here dont forget the history of their town the original face of medford wont be forgotten. very close to me there are a bunch of subsidized/low income housing units going up and i cant help but think "thanks mt laurel"..but still, i live in an area that was farmland not too long ago, so maybe im to blame as well...but i have to live somewhere, but because i love the pines "proper" and the history and hike/spend time there fairly frequently, i dont feel like an intruder...maybe i am, but i hope im not, because i appreciate the pinelands...
i do agree with you about the development though...it keeps eating away at the forests that are already fragmented enough
no harm done