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ShopRite of Wayne Hills Owner: Inserra Supermarkets Opened:  October 31, 2021 Previous Tenants:  on site of former Wayne Hills Mall Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  30 Wayne Hills Mall, Wayne, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 We arrive at the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, NJ to check out the brand-new Wayne Hills ShopRite! As much as I am sad to see the ancient -- and totally unique -- Wayne ShopRite just west on Hamburg Turnpike close up shop, its replacement about a mile and a quarter northwest is beautiful. The 80,000 square foot store is located on what used to be the indoor mall portion of the Wayne Hills Mall, which was demolished. The mall also includes a Burlington Coat Factory to the left of the ShopRite, a vacant Toys R Us and Kmart across the parking lot, and an LA Fitness in a former Pathmark. The ShopRite opened on Halloween 2021. So that means that the ShopRite is bringing some much-needed life to this mall. It does also mean that Plaza ...

Original Tenant: ShopRite Address: 242 Lincoln Blvd, Middlesex, NJ Opened:  1968 Closed:  1984 Later Tenants:  Pathmark (1984-2015) > Price Saver Fresh Marketplace (April 2019-September 2019) > SuperFresh (coming soon) Photographed:  December 2021 We return to 242 Lincoln Blvd for a whole lot more pictures. This is a long post, and if you're not interested in wandering around this entire property feel free to just read the introduction and move on. The real news here is that all indications point to this property being successfully sold to SuperFresh. The property, which has been vacant since September 2019, was the subject of one of my visits back in July 2020 . In the last year and a half, nothing has really changed. However, this Tweet appears to confirm what I heard from an inside source several months ago. My source told me that Howard Lee, who owns several SuperFresh stores in the area along with Food World in NY, had entered negotiations to purchase t...