{"id":11866,"date":"2017-11-27T02:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T07:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2017-11-27T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T07:08:03","slug":"two-years-later-its-unlikely-a-supermarket-will-return-to-former-brick-pathmark-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/11\/two-years-later-its-unlikely-a-supermarket-will-return-to-former-brick-pathmark-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years Later, It’s Unlikely a Supermarket Will Return to Former Brick Pathmark Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The now-shuttered Pathmark supermarket in Brick\u2019s Laurel Square shopping center. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

There are no signs that a supermarket will return to the northern side of Brick after the township\u2019s Pathmark store closed the day before Thanksgiving 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re moving away from doing a grocery store there,\u201d Mayor John Ducey said last week, referring to Brixmor, the company that owns the Laurel Square shopping center which Pathmark once anchored.<\/p>\n

Sources with knowledge of the site\u2019s status previously told Shorebeat that Acme and Foodtown were interested in opening stores there, but negotiations had apparently broken off last spring. In the main portion of the shopping plaza, a Kmart store remains open along with some smaller businesses, but the parking lot on most days is largely empty.<\/p>\n

Brixmor representatives did not respond to a request to comment on current or potential future tenants.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast we heard, they want to do some type of entertainment facility there,\u201d said Ducey, who estimated \u201c90 percent\u201d of people he talks to favor a supermarket returning to the site.<\/p>\n

Ducey did hint, however, that there is a chance a supermarket could return to the former Foodtown site on Route 70, where retail space will be paired with an indoor sports complex<\/a> under a plan to redevelop the long-empty plot.<\/p>\n

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There are no signs that a supermarket will return to the northern side of Brick after the township\u2019s Pathmark store closed the day before Thanksgiving 2015. \u201cThey\u2019re moving away from doing a grocery store there,\u201d Mayor John Ducey said last week, referring to Brixmor, the company that owns the Laurel Square shopping center which Pathmark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1649],"tags":[24,286,2026,1532,3127],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-foodtown","tag-laurel-square","tag-pathmark","tag-supermarket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1352.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-35o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}