Special Report: H Mart - Cherry Hill, NJ

H Mart
Owner: Il Yeon Kwon
Opened: 2001-2025; reopened 2026
Previous Tenants: unknown
Location: 1720 NJ-70, Cherry Hill, NJ
Photographed: June 5, 2026

The H Mart in Cherry Hill was one of the chain's relatively early stores outside the immediate New York metro area -- this store is close to Philly, not New York -- having opened in 2001, and it had become rather outdated. The basement supermarket closed in 2025 for remodeling, and over about a year it was expanded from the original 24,000 square feet or so to its present size of just under 40,000 square feet by taking up both floors of the building it's in. Now, the main supermarket is still in the basement, but nonfoods like kitchenwares, paper and cleaning, and personal care items have been moved up to the main floor. Also on the main floor is a large new food court with multiple vendors, and an attached Paris Baguette bakery/cafe.

You can see the general shape of the building here, and the supermarket takes up the basement floor (which is essentially the ground floor around back).

Let's start our tour of the new H Mart in the food court, or Market Eatery Food Hall as they call it here. As you can see, the work was quite extensive, as the store didn't previously have a food court.

This is kind of in the center of the first floor, with the Paris Baguette up in the front and the nonfoods/personal care section in the back.

K-beauty products between the food court and the nonfoods grocery aisles...

...and the expansion here has allowed for a much larger selection in what they call the H Pop department, which appears to be things like Korean toys and collectibles. As far as I know, the previous store here didn't have anything like this.

This section also includes a row of arcade-type games, with the nonfood grocery items behind that.

Moving these items up here from the basement supermarket means there's more space in the grocery aisles for food.

This store also has a large kitchenwares section.

Looking back towards H Pop and the Market Eatery...

Okay, now let's head downstairs to see how the supermarket has changed...

And the layout hasn't changed, but that doesn't mean the updates weren't extensive. The decor was redone (though because of the low basement ceilings, there's not a whole lot of space for decor), but most of the fixtures appear to have been replaced.

Now we'll tour this basement from the left side, where the produce department is (and where the entrance from the parking lot is, which you can see to the left in the above picture).

Produce lines the first aisle here, with kimchi and other prepared foods at the back. Seafood and meat line the rest of the perimeter of the store, along with frozen and dairy on the right side. The store is an L-shape, so the grocery aisles are broken roughly in half and set at an angle.

For all the (very noticeable) improvements here, this store is still very cramped. It's not a small store, but there's a lot in a very crowded space.

You can see here that the setup now is very different from the previous one.

Here's where the grocery aisles split, and you can see that they're on an angle.

It looks like all or most of the grocery shelving was replaced, or at least fixed up and repainted a bit.

Service seafood has been expanded (see here for before), but is in basically the same place.

Sushi is still made in-store, but it's no longer set up as a service counter. If I remember correctly, it was previously over on the produce side of the store, and now it's back with seafood and meat.

No service butcher counter here, though there doesn't appear to have been one previously either.

And "grocery" (that's dairy/frozen) are in the last few aisles in what's essentially the back-right corner of the store.

Here, with all new fixtures, you can clearly see the difference from before the remodel.

Beverages are in the last aisle up at the front, which will bring you towards the elevator and staircase to the food court floor and the front-end...

The changes in the grocery aisles aren't particularly dramatic, but everything's been freshened up nicely.

The front-end also now has a significantly less cluttered setup than before. I think a big part of that was moving nonfoods up to the first floor, as they were previously here too.

And here's a look at the supermarket entrance around the back of the building...

It's good to see an older store like this get a big redo, and it looks very good these days if still just cramped because of the constraints of the space. But this is as good as a remodel as could be expected given what they were working with. By the way, it's currently summer break but keep an eye out for more news posts coming soon!