The Planning Board approved an application for renovations to Pine Brook Plaza on Route 46 at its Thursday night meeting.

The plaza, which is home to the Donut Dugout, will undergo several improvements to its façade and outside appearance, according to Mich Abraham, one of the professionals involved with the presentation to the board. Abraham stressed that the proposed renovations would not increase the square-footage of the property and that the project was largely cosmetic.

“This is basically a face-lift to the building,” he said.

The proposed changes to the property include installing towers to the roof of the plaza to view from the roadway, paver sidewalks, a repaving and relining of the plaza parking lot, as well as the repair and application of a 6 inch concrete curb on the location.

John Azarian, one of the managing members of the property’s ownership company, said that the renovations would be a “vast improvement over what exists.”

“We are purely doing this renovation because we want to upgrade the property,” he said. “ We are not going to realize any financial gain as a result of this investment.”

At the request of the Planning Board, Azarian included sidewalk development and streetscape lighting throughout the property, in accordance with the board’s overall “Old Bloomfield Corridor” layout in the master plan.

The board unanimously voted to approve the project and thanked Azarian for his willingness to improve the property to the board’s specifications.

“You don’t know how many times applications come before us and it’s a battle to improve the property,” Board president Russ Lipari said. “They came to us and I want to thank you for being such a good neighbor.”

Mayor Sandham called the propsed renovations a “great visual improvement to the area.”

“It’s a beautiful thing,” he said. “This should benefit the area tremendously.

Azarian said he expects to begin the renovation process “as soon as the weather breaks.”