The Ciconte restaurant family has plans to upgrade one of their oldest pizzeria locations, relocating their Gibbstown pizzeria across the street to a larger space that will be fully remodeled into a new restaurant offering indoor dining.
The Ciconte Restaurant Group are one of South Jersey’s top restaurant families, operating the successful Ciconte Pizzerias, The Village Pubs (Swedesboro, Washington Twp) and Cinder Bar (Clarksboro, Williamstown)
The proposed new location for the Gibbstown Pizza restaurant was originally developed as a bank and over the years has been home to a variety of businesses, including delis and a musical instrument store.
Ciconte’s Pizzeria Gibbstown is currently located at 206 West Broad Street in a building shared with a small food market. Old-timers like me will immediately recognize the building as originally being developed for a Cumberland Farms, which used to be located in nearly every community in South Jersey.
The existing Ciconte’s pizzeria is very small and primarily operates as a takeout shop… and is likely overdue for a remodel. The Ciconte family plans to create a beautiful full-service restaurant directly across the street, offering considerably more parking and significant dine-in seating options.
While I have not seen architect renderings of the new restaurant interior design, if you’ve visited the Village Pub or Cinder Bar restaurants you know the Ciconte Team is very talented and designing beautiful restaurant spaces.
Plans submitted to Greenwich Township show that the entire building will be utilized for the new Ciconte’s Pizzaeria and will include a full rebuild of the parking lot, which by my count will offer 37 parking spaces.
With the growth of takeout business across the country, a significant portion of the building appears to be allocated to kitchen capabilities. That said, documents submitted to the township show 15 tables and a maximum capacity of 74 customers.
The placement of the building with the additional of parking out front perfectly supports the restaurant’s thriving takeout business. Dine-in customers will have plenty of parking in the rear of the property, while takeout customers will likely be able to pull right into the front row to quickly grab their food and head out.
Additionally, the second floor of the building has long been utilized as two single-family apartments, and that use is expected to remain the same.
On Monday, December 1st, Ciconte’s and their experts will present their plans for the new restaurant at the monthly Planning and Zoning Board meeting.
While the building has clearly operated as a commercial space with residential apartments above, Greenwich Township is requiring Ciconte’s to move through the Zoning hearing process.
Additional aspects of the project are expected to be reviewed including perimeter fencing, parking lot upgrades and landscaping, as well as a general overview of the business.
Links and Location
The Planning and Zoning Details are:December 1, 2025, commencing at 7:00 P.MGreenwich Township Municipal Court Room (Second Floor)21 North Walnut StreetGibbstown, NJ 08027,