By a 4-3 margin, members of the Gloucester County Planning Commission voted to recommend the removal of the proffers on the former Rite Aid property at Gloucester Point, which would allow the site to be turned into a 7-Eleven by right during its regular monthly meeting held last Thursday in the colonial courthouse. Moises Castro c/o Verdad Real Estate submitted a rezoning application to reclassify the property from General Business (B-1, conditional) to B-1, which would remove all proffered conditions associated with a previous rezoning application in order to develop the convenience store. The property was originally zoned as B-3 (office business) until 2003 when it was developed as an Eckerd pharmacy and retail store under a B-1 rezoning, which included proffered conditions regarding the building and site layout. Eckerd was then rebranded as Rite Aid, which permanently closed in January 2024 and the parcel has sat vacant ever since. The property can be currently developed as long as ...