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Original Tenant: A&P Address: 261 Comly Rd, Lincoln Park, NJ Opened:  1970s Closed:  1990s Later Tenants:  Cost Cutters/Drug Fair combination > Walgreens > ACE Hardware Photographed:  June 2021 Our second stop in Lincoln Park is this 29,000 square foot former A&P which closed by the 90s after the current Lincoln Park ShopRite opened in 1987 and then became a Cost Cutters-Drug Fair combination store. It became a Walgreens briefly before Walgreens moved to a former Rite Aid property around the corner at 153 Main St, demolishing the Rite Aid (which itself was a former ShopRite). This then became Costello's ACE Hardware. Our other stops for the day are the current ShopRite in town and Wolfson's Market just outside of town, and tomorrow, we are heading north (admittedly outside of the Parsippany/Great Piece Meadows area just for the day) for three posts in Butler and Kinnelon -- check out one here on The Market Report, one on  The Independent Editi...

ShopRite of Lincoln Park Owner: Larri Wolfson Opened:  1987 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  60 Beaverbrook Rd, Lincoln Park, NJ Photographed:  August 2019 A longtime favorite of mine, the ShopRite of Lincoln Park was built in the late 1980s to replace a smaller store at 153 Main St (demolished for a Walgreens) which was roughly across the street. This sprawling 65,000 square foot store has received freshening up but is largely original to how it would've looked on opening day. Outside, we see a unique logo using a typeface no other ShopRite uses. The exterior has also been freshened up, with a new overhang (compare the black metal overhang to the previous awning ) but is largely original too. The monument signs around the property are also wonderful... As of my 2019 visit, none of the exterior signage had been updated. This is one of the remaining single-location ShopRites, so that this store's owner Wolfson does not own any ...