The battered Beachwood Shopping Center was engulfed in flames Monday night as Hurricane Sandy struck the Jersey Shore.
The smell of burning transformers lingered down a dark Route 9 as 80 mph winds blew through Berkeley.
No word on the extent of the damages to the controversial structure.
Estimates to clean up the asphalt plant behind the defunct shopping center, remove asbestos from the buildings and raze the site have ranged as high as $50 million, officials said.
