{"id":8187,"date":"2016-04-22T00:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2016-04-22T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:57:20","slug":"brick-kmart-store-survives-another-round-of-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/brick-kmart-store-survives-another-round-of-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Kmart Store Survives Another Round of Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7961\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7961\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Laurel Square shopping center, Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laurel Square shopping center, Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kmart store in Brick&#8217;s Laurel Square shopping center has survived another round of store closures announced late Thursday by Sears Holdings Corporation, the parent company of the Big Box chain.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of the store&#8217;s closure have circulated for years, but they have always been proven incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Sears announced Thursday that it would close 78 stores between the Sears and Kmart brands. No stores in New Jersey were on the closure list.<\/p>\n<p>The Laurel Square shopping center, between routes 70 and 88 in Brick, has seen a marked decrease in traffic since its anchor store, Pathmark, closed late last year. Its Brixmor Property Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/03\/whats-next-for-bricks-laurel-square-pathmark-shopping-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">told Shorebeat recently<\/a> that it plans on continuing to operate the property as a shopping center and is trying to lure another supermarket chain to take the place of Pathmark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/brick-kmart-store-survives-another-round-of-closures\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kmart store in Brick&#8217;s Laurel Square shopping center has survived another round of store closures announced late Thursday by Sears Holdings Corporation, the parent company of the Big Box chain. Rumors of the store&#8217;s closure have circulated for years, but they have always been proven incorrect. Sears announced Thursday that it would close 78 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7961,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[24,2099,2026],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-kmart","tag-laurel-square"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-283","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","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=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}