Maybe Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams,” was right: If you build it, they will come. That certainly seems to be true of Surf City Square, a strip mall situated in the cutout between Sixth and Seventh streets in the heart of the borough’s business district. 

But times change, and “people want housing,” attorney John Novak said during the May 26 meeting of the Surf City Land Use Review Board.