2 Years In 1 Minute: ShopRite Of Wyckoff Time-Lapse Video

WYCKOFF, NJ — A resident has created a unique video of the construction of the ShopRite on Greenwood Avenue.

Barry Houldsworth filmed the site with a drone. Houldsworth owns Avios Aerial Media and films aerial footage with the drone for various clients.

Houldsworth started filming the site when construction began in March 2017.

"The most obvious challenge is that when first setting up there is nothing but a site and nothing to use to frame the pictures or video I’m about to start recording," Houldsworth said. "Once started, you can’t change the location or the whole effect is ruined. And so we have to fall back on a time-honored practice of guessing."

Houldsworth improved his chances of getting good footage early on by looking at architectural plans showing where the store would be built.

"That doesn’t help much with altitude, angles, etc. But at least it had me pointing in mostly the right direction.," Houldsworth said.

Houldsworth filmed from 16 different locations.

Houldsworth has filmed throughout Wyckoff and Bergen County. He twice filmed his neighbor Jerry Ghinelli's decked-outChristmas lights display.

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ShopRite opened in January.

The opening came years after the Mahwah-based Inserra Supermarkets battled with competitor Stop & Shop in court.

Stop & Shop contended that the Wyckoff Planning Board did not have jurisdiction to consider ShopRite's 2010 application because a "supermarket" was not a permitted use in the zone where ShopRite is being built.

ShopRite's application before the Wyckoff Planning Board dates back to 2010 when the first of what would eventually be 38 hearings on the application was held over two years.

The board unanimously approved the application in February 2013, which kicked off the legal battle and series of appeals by Stop & Shop.

The case eventually made its way to the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division where a three-judge panel eventually ruled in favor of ShopRite.

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Email: daniel.hubbard@patch.com