Englishtown Documentary

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

No one wants a race track in their backyard except racers. Not the element homeowners want in their town. No one is building a new drag strip anywhere in New Jersey. The land is too valuable, there is ZERO ROI and the residents don?t want it.

The airport lies between the track and the residential neighborhoods of Millville. Across the street there's nothing but woods. However, there are residential neighborhoods two miles down the road.

Here is a 2020 article on land use in New Jersey. It cites data from 2015 indicating that only 13.7% of the state's land was still developable.