The Market Report

Original Tenant:  Foodtown Address:  451 Ridgedale Ave, East Hanover, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  1999 Later Tenants: CVS Photographed: March 2019 Our third East Hanover store today is this former Foodtown in downtown East Hanover separated from the ACME and Pathmark on route 10. The 12,600 square foot store was built in the 1950s or so by a Foodtown owner. JoshAustin610 calls it Ross's Foodtown, but this store was also by the end of its life a Michas Brothers/Manyfoods location whose Whippany ( earlier and later ) and Cedar Knolls ( earlier and later ) locations we recently saw which all were closed or sold by 2003. Oddly, this CVS lacks a sign on the side of the store with the only sign facing out to the street. I believe there was an older store here in town, but I don't know for sure. There doesn't seem to have been a replacement for this store, and it lasted all the way until almost the end of Manyfoods. Tomorrow, we move up to 46 in the eastern part of ...

Original Tenant: Two Guys Address: 240 NJ-10, East Hanover, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  early 1980s Later Tenants:  Pathmark (early 1980s-ca. 2000) Photographed:  March 2019 This 121,000 square foot space at the back of the Hanover Commons was built as a Two Guys department store, which closed by the early 80s. At that time, the left 51,000 square feet of the space became a Pathmark while the right half became a Bradlees. This is the side that became Bradlees, and the division between Dick's and Marshalls is approximately the same as where Pathmark/Bradlees would've divided. This Pathmark was replaced around 2000 by the Whippany store to the west and the Livingston store to the east, which opened in 2000 and 2001 respectively. The facade of the strip mall has been remodeled a few times since these new anchors opened; Kam Man Market is also across the street (New Murray Rd). There's not much to see along the front here given the extensive facade renovations, but d...

Original Tenant:  ACME Markets Address:  235 NJ-10, East Hanover, NJ Opened:  1960 Closed:  possibly 1970s Later Tenants: Gogel Tire Photographed: November 2019 Our first of three East Hanover stores is the former ACME, now Gogel Tire, at route 10 and New Murray Rd. This store opened in 1960 as a 50s-style flat roof, and has been expanded (probably by Gogel) to 24,000 square feet but retains its original appearance. The bones of the building seem to be very original but this sign is not. This facade treatment may or may not be original to ACME, but it looks similar to what it would've originally looked like regardless. There's a lot to see right around here too, so make sure to check out the former Pathmark just across route 10 as well as the former Foodtown just over in downtown East Hanover. Plus, check out our tour of the Kam Man Market directly across route 10 from 2019 here . Tomorrow, we move up to 46 in the eastern part of Parsippany with one store her...

Kam Man Foods (aka Kam Man Market in some locations) is a five-store chain based in Edison, NJ that specializes in Chinese and other eastern Asian foods. According to Wikipedia, its name in Chinese translates to Golden Door. The original location is in Chinatown in Manhattan, while newer locations have opened in Edison and East Hanover, NJ, as well as Boston and Quincy , MA. The Boston location has since closed. The store here in East Hanover is located in a mall that was also once home to a nearly 100,000-square-foot Pathmark, although the stores were never open at the same time. The entire mall has recently undergone a facade renovation, which was in progress at the time of my visit. I first visited this Kam Man long before I got interested in supermarkets. I was blown away, especially by the produce -- so many things I had never seen before! Then I actually started to visit a lot of supermarkets, and was introduced to Food Bazaar, SuperFresh Food World, Hmart, and other si...