Four new stores coming to Monmouth Mall Dick's Sporting Goods among stand-alone stores to be built BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN -- Monmouth Mall is growing its selection of retailers with four new, stand-alone stores to be built in its parking area. One of those buildings will house a new two-story, 50,000-square-foot Dick's Sporting Goods, according to Peggy Ciok of the borough's Planning and Zoning Office. Tenants for the other three smaller structures have not yet been identified by mall management, Ciok said. The sporting goods store, to be constructed adjacent to the mall's parking garage on the Wyckoff Road side of the property, comes courtesy of the borough Planning Board's unanimous approval of the mall's final site plan on Oct. 23. The board granted the mall owner Vornado Realty Trust of New York City a variance from a borough ordinance requiring additional tree plantings on the side of the parking lot facing Wyckoff Road. Those trees are intended to buffer the mall property from residences along Wyckoff Road, according to Councilman Carl Sohl, a board member. With the variance, Vornado will plant fewer than the five trees that the borough usually requires per parking spot in a commercial property, Sohl explained. The other three, single-story pad sites measure 6,000 square feet, 8,000 square feet, and 14,000 square feet according to Ciok. Those buildings will constructed along the mall's perimeter road, paralleling state Highway 35. On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the mall management referred all questions regarding the new additions and the expected opening date for Dick's to Ben Levine, the center's general manager. Levine could not be reached for comment at press time. Pittsburgh-based Dick's Sporting Goods sells brand-name athletic equipment, sporting and fitness apparel and footwear according to its Web site. The retailer has more than 250 stores in 34 states, mainly in the East, South, and Midwest. The mall, originally constructed as an outdoor shopping center at routes 35 and 36 in the early 1960s, is known as Eatontown's biggest ratable and houses four anchor stores, more than 100 smaller retailers and eateries, and a multiplex movie theater.