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Original Tenant: ACME Markets Address: 1 Sunnybrae Blvd, Yardville, Hamilton, NJ Opened:  ca. 1970 Closed:  2001 Later Tenants:  CVS Photographed:  January 2021 The pitched-roof ACME in the Sunnybrae development in the Yardville section of Hamilton Township was one of the latest pitched-roof stores, opening around 1970. The 19,000 square foot store lasted until 2001, when it was replaced by the existing Yardville ACME just a quarter of a mile southeast. Acme Style has more details on the store and its replacement here . Tomorrow, we move on to Bordentown for a look at the ShopRite over on The Market Report !

ACME Markets Opened: 2001 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  4400 S Broad St, Yardville, Hamilton Township, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 I visited the Hamilton Square ACME at the northeastern part of Hamilton Township, roughly three and a half miles north of this one, and this Yardville ACME, in the southeastern part of Hamilton Township, on the same day. As I mentioned on the Hamilton Square post, that store used to have a really unusual decor package but right before my visit had been remodeled to Quality Built. I assumed this one had also been recently remodeled to Quality Built, but I am very pleased to say that I was wrong. The 55,000 square foot store was built in 2001 as a replacement for the older Yardville ACME, now a CVS, about a quarter of a mile away. Check out today's other post on that store here . It looks to me as though the store still has not received Quality Built, but I don't know for sure. As I mentioned in the Hamilton Square post, I find this late...

ShopRite of Hamilton Market Place Owner: Richard Saker / Saker Supermarkets Opened:  early 2000s Previous Tenants:  unknown, possibly none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  130 Marketplace Blvd, Hamilton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 We're touring the smaller of the two Hamilton Township ShopRites today, the larger being the ShopRite of Hamilton Square roughly three miles northwest. I don't have a tour of that store, but we did see the ACME just west on NJ-33 also at Hamilton Square. While that store is over 80,000 square feet, this one comes in at just over 60,000, so it's significantly smaller. It's quite nice though, and I wonder about the store's history because of its smaller size than most contemporary Saker stores. Many of the Trenton-area ShopRites went through the Laurenti to Big V to Saker (or close) cycle, such as Whitehorse which closed in 2002 rather than being purchased by Saker, which was at the time called Foodarama. The exterior p...

Original Tenant: Big C Department Store Address: 2465 S Broad St, Hamilton, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  1980s Later Tenants:  Davidson Foodtown (1989-1999) > SuperFresh (1999-2010) > subdivided Photographed:  January 2021 A&P had a 1960s-era store just to the northwest at 2130 S Broad , which closed in the 1970s. This 62,000 square foot store opened in the 1970s as a Big C department store before becoming a Davidson Foodtown in 1989 , which then sold to SuperFresh in 1999. It's unclear if the Davidsons who owned this Foodtown were the same Davidsons who owned the New Brunswick locations on George St (later CTown and now Bravo) and Elizabeth St (later Estevez Foodtown and now Food Universe). The space has been subdivided, with Ollie's Bargain Outlet (good stuff cheap!) taking the right half and a gym taking the left half. There's still a supermarket at Independence Plaza, though, as a Save-A-Lot has opened up in the front part of the mall closest to Broa...