Burlington HQ is moving to Philly | Inquirer South Jersey
And a Moorestown native is the latest “American Ninja Warrior” winner.
Good morning, South Jersey.
After more than a half a century of being based in South Jersey, Burlington Stores’ headquarters is moving to Philly.
And meet the winner of the latest season of American Ninja Warrior, who happens to be from Moorestown.
Plus, Shamong will consider a one-year ban on Flock cameras, and more news of the day.
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Burlington Stores, the Fortune 500 company based in its namesake Burlington Township, on Thursday announced plans to move its headquarters to Philadelphia.
In all, the discount retailer expects to spend $370 million on the move and use another $30 million in state grants.
About 4,700 people worked at Burlington’s corporate campus and at warehouses in Burlington County as of last year. The company employs 8,000 across New Jersey, according to a spokesperson.
What this means for New Jersey workers:
Burlington plans to relocate 1,500 employees from New Jersey to the new Philly headquarters and hire an additional 500. Moves will begin no earlier than late 2028.
The retailer has no plans for layoffs.
It expects to keep its New Jersey warehouse and distribution centers in Burlington, Edgewater Park, Florence, and Logan Township.
The Inquirer’s Erin McCarthy explains the retailer’s plans for its current headquarters.
In other business news: The Campbell’s Co., headquartered in Camden, laid off about 515 employees amid declining sales.
For almost a year, Moorestown native Josiah Pippel had to keep a massive secret.
On his 20th birthday, he became the winner of the 18th season of American Ninja Warrior. He won the $250,000 prize and beat out reigning champion Kai Beckstrand.
Now that the episode aired this past Monday, he can properly and fully bask in the glory.
“I’ve been waiting 11 months for this,” Pippel said of the episode. “... We had a big watch party at the gym [where he works], and it’s been a really cool experience, especially with so much time in between. I had a chance to experience it then, and then kind of die down, and now the high is back again. So it was like winning twice.”
Pippel has been a competitor in ninja since he was 7, and he trained for a decade at Movement Lab in Hainesport.
Read on to find out what’s next for Pippel and what he plans to do with the prize money.
What to know today
Shamong Township Mayor Michael Di Croce introduced an ordinance this week that would put in place a one-year moratorium on Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers.
Mantua’s first day of school is now pushed to Wednesday after this week’s storm left thousands of residents with blocked roadways and no electricity.
Five people, including four children aboard a school bus, went to the hospital for suspected minor injuries after a car crash in Washington Township Wednesday morning.
Evesham signed a letter of intent to buy the former Barton Run Swim Club site and preserve it as open space, according to 70and73.
Speaking of that township, Evesham Library will be getting a new technology center and an expansion of its children’s area and activity/meeting room as part of a $500,000 renovation project. It’s the library’s first major upgrade in nearly 30 years.
The irritating fumes at a Walmart in Deptford that led to nearly 20 people being sent to area hospitals for evaluations was caused by an insecticide that fell off a shelf, authorities said.
Members of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, the South Jersey Men’s Club, and Jewish War Veterans Post 126 of Cherry Hill organized an event to line the perimeter of the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill with nearly 3,000 American flags on Thursday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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🏖️ Down the Shore
This feature appears as part of our free weekly summertime series, the Down the Shore newsletter.
September has arrived, schools have opened, and this is the last Down the Shore newsletter feature for the season as summer comes to a close.
With that, enjoy one of our readers’ end-of-summer Shore memories:
My sisters and I grew up in South Philly and summered with my aunt and uncle on Cresse Avenue in Wildwood Crest. I live in Margate now; nothing was as magical as Wildwood in the ’60s. Just before Labor Day, we always had a big crabs and macaroni dinner. My dad purchased the crabs somewhere offshore, with corn from a Goshen farm.
Aunt Betty declawed the crabs — she wore sturdy black shoes and wielded her kitchen tools like weapons. My mother and Aunt Sue were inside preparing the rest. Aunt Betty and Uncle Joe had a big picnic table. They removed the umbrella and added newspaper. Shortly before sunset, we started eating. First was the linguine. The crab gravy was so sweet you hated to stop at one serving. Then magically, the crabs appeared, later the corn. We stayed at the table for hours. My mom and my aunts somehow kept the food coming while never appearing to leave the table.
But it was also a bittersweet occasion — a highlight of the summer, which was ending.
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