Acme, Clifton, NJ (Seasons Kosher Supermarket coming soon)
Here sits the vacant Acme in Styertowne Shopping Center in Clifton, NJ. The store is being prepped to open as Seasons Kosher Supermarket.
Styertowne is a mid-century community shopping center, opened in 1952 with a Grand Union supermarket and Levy Brothers Department store as anchors. Like many early shopping plazas, it has a front, upper level and a rear lower level.
Grand Union closed in the mid-1990's, and was replaced with C-Town. The C-Town lasted only 2 years, and then CVS took over the space, leaving the center without a supermarket. Acme built a new supermarket from the ground-up on property previously used by Verizon in the rear of the shopping center.
Acme opened in 2004, and had a pretty lackluster run through 2015. As a very generic conventional market, the store simply could not compete with the better merchandised (and better priced) options available throughout the area. In addition, Acme made no effort to merchandise to non-Anglo communities, and in the New York Metro area, this will guarantee failure.
Acme, Clifton, NJ (Seasons Kosher Supermarket coming soon)
Here sits the vacant Acme in Styertowne Shopping Center in Clifton, NJ. The store is being prepped to open as Seasons Kosher Supermarket.
Styertowne is a mid-century community shopping center, opened in 1952 with a Grand Union supermarket and Levy Brothers Department store as anchors. Like many early shopping plazas, it has a front, upper level and a rear lower level.
Grand Union closed in the mid-1990's, and was replaced with C-Town. The C-Town lasted only 2 years, and then CVS took over the space, leaving the center without a supermarket. Acme built a new supermarket from the ground-up on property previously used by Verizon in the rear of the shopping center.
Acme opened in 2004, and had a pretty lackluster run through 2015. As a very generic conventional market, the store simply could not compete with the better merchandised (and better priced) options available throughout the area. In addition, Acme made no effort to merchandise to non-Anglo communities, and in the New York Metro area, this will guarantee failure.