The Market Report

Original Tenant: Penn Fruit Address: 3949 US-130, Pennsauken, NJ Opened:  1950s Closed:  1970s Later Tenants:  Jewel T > subdivided Photographed:  January 2021 This unnamed strip mall at US-130 and Federal Street in Pennsauken is constructed around a roughly 16,000 square foot arched-roof Penn Fruit, which was later expanded to about 31,000 square feet. That became a Jewel T discount food store, and was later subdivided with Family Dollar taking the left side and part of the Save-A-Lot in the right side. The rest of the Save-A-Lot may have been a bank or other smaller business next to the supermarket. An overview of the whole strip mall from a conveniently-placed pedestrian walkway over route 130. You see how there's a raised section in the middle of Family Dollar's ceiling? I couldn't quite figure out what that is when I was in the store, but I think it's in the middle of the arch where the building roof is higher. The rest of the ceiling is much lower, as we ...

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 2130 S Broad St, Hamilton, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  1970s Later Tenants:  Jewel T Supermarket > Strauss Auto > Dollar General Photographed:  January 2021 Our first store south of Trenton is very close -- just about a mile and a half southeast -- of our southernmost Trenton stop at the Supreme Food Market . We're on South Broad Street to the southeast of downtown Trenton in Hamilton, what might be considered a downtown of the sprawling township with multiple smaller business districts such as Hamilton Square and Mercerville . This 11,000 square foot store was built as a 1960s simple centennial A&P, and it's just up the street from a former SuperFresh . So this was converted to SuperFresh in 1983 and then moved later, right? Nope. This store actually closed by the late 1970s while the later SuperFresh was originally a department store, then became Foodtown from 1989-1999 when it switched to SuperFresh. Also in that mall...