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Original Tenant: Food Fair Address: 2933 Vauxhall Rd, Vauxhall, Union, NJ Opened:  1962 Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  Drug Fair > Walgreens Photographed:  November 2020 The Walgreens, formerly a Drug Fair, at the back of this strip mall in Vauxhall just a quarter of a mile from yesterday's Whole Foods  was built in 1962 as a Food Fair. For more information and a daytime picture, see here . The store is 21,000 square feet. Despite the fact that the plaza is called the Millburn Mall, this property is definitely part of Union Township. Fun fact: that was the first Five Guys I ever went to (back when I lived in Union Township). Our next store will be in downtown Maplewood, so head over to The Market Report to check it out!

Whole Foods Market Opened: 2008 Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  2245 Springfield Ave, Vauxhall, Union, NJ Photographed:  August 2016 and November 2020 Today's store tour is a store I tend to consider to be the largest Whole Foods in the north-central NJ area. At 60,000 square feet, it's actually smaller than West Orange , but somehow feels larger. While West Orange coexists with a nearby smaller store in Montclair , the store here at Vauxhall replaced a smaller store about half a mile to the northwest in Millburn . That store today is a Trader Joe's and a Petsmart . For that reason, Whole Foods refers to this location as Millburn, despite the fact that it's actually in Vauxhall, a somewhat ambiguous area that is actually part of Union Township . (Another large part of Whole Foods' calling this the Millburn instead of the Union store, I'm sure, is the fact that Millburn's median household income is more than double that of Union's.) 2016 I caught t...