The Market Report

ACME Markets Opened: around 1993 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  953 NJ-33, Hamilton Square, Hamilton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 I mentioned in yesterday's post that there were two supermarkets operating at Hamilton Square, an 82,000 square foot Saker ShopRite  and this 60,000 square foot ACME. This store opened in the early 1990s as a replacement for an older location just west which we'll be seeing tomorrow. While it was built with the 1990s red white and blue decor , the Hamilton Square ACME was remodeled around 2000 to an unusual decor package only seen in a few other Albertsons-owned stores. It was then remodeled again sometime around 2019-2020 to Quality Built, and while it looks nice, it's not that exciting. Not that the very bland prior decor package was that exciting either, but at least it was unique. This was my first 1990s-era "fortress" store, as they were referred to over on Acme Style, that I visited myself. I must say that they look much...

Original Tenant: Grand Union Address: 1750 Whitehorse Mercerville Rd, Hamilton, NJ Opened:  1970s Closed:  late 1980s Later Tenants:  Laurenti ShopRite (late 1980s-late 1990s) > Big V ShopRite (late 1990s-2002) Photographed:  January 2021 Well everybody, allow me to introduce one of the coolest abandoned supermarkets I've ever visited. This beauty of an eyesore takes up 33,000 square feet of a 63,000 square foot totally-abandoned strip mall on Whitehorse Mercerville Road in the Hamilton Square part of Hamilton Township. An additional 45,000 square feet next door -- likely previously a department store -- is now a self-storage facility (see before and after here). Google Maps caught the abandoned strip  after all the tenants closed but before the property was blocked off . I was able to wander in to this mall, which is all still supposed to be available retail space, for some very cool exclusive interior photos. (To my knowledge, no one else has gotten int...