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03-08-2018, 08:32 AM
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I live nearish to Monmouth Mall, owned by our POTUS's son-in-law.
It doesn't seem to be ghetto, but I don't know that I've ever been there on a Friday night. I mostly go there for Planet Fitness, but you can access that without going inside the actual mall. I am not a person who likes to shop in actual stores, so I am only there to shop a couple of times a year.
There are several chain restaurants that seem to get business, as well as the movie theater.
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03-08-2018, 08:33 AM
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Ah didn't Short Hills Mall have some pretty terrible stuff happen there relatively recently?
I don't like any enclosed malls in NJ. They all feel unsafe to me
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Somebody mugged a couple and then shot the man in the head and killed him a couple of Christmastimes ago.
You do have a point. Places like that would be targets for people with guns or bombs. |
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03-08-2018, 09:00 AM
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Red Robin is there.
Therefore, it is the best mall in NJ.
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03-08-2018, 09:09 AM
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I don't like any enclosed malls in NJ. They all feel unsafe to me
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There could be muggers at any of these malls, but I think that there is one forum member who can elaborate on this point for us. However, I have to say that I have never seen any of the classic simultaneously obese and skeletal muggers at Short Hills Mall.
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Originally Posted by ansky
I don't think I have been to any mall in over 10 years. It's hard to imagine how these malls are still surviving as they really serve no purpose other than a hangout spot for wayward teenagers.
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Every mall--even the more upscale ones--is suffering badly from the growth of online shopping. If you visit any mall nowadays, the number of vacant stores is clearly increasing on a monthly basis. In some parts of The US, vacant department stores at malls have been converted to senior citizen/assisted-living housing, and I wouldn't be surprised if that trend surfaces at some malls in NJ.
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03-08-2018, 09:13 AM
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I like the new open malls they are building better.
Anyone remember when Garden State Plaza was an open-air mall?
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03-08-2018, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by bookspage
I like the new open malls they are building better.
Anyone remember when Garden State Plaza was an open-air mall?
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If you were as old as I am, you would remember when The Mall at Short Hills was an open-air mall, as was Menlo Park Mall.
When Cherry Hill Mall first opened, it was quite a sensation because it was one of the first enclosed malls in NJ.
The big problem with open-air malls is that they do very little business during the winter and on very rainy days.
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03-08-2018, 10:14 AM
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"THE JERSEY GARDENS MALL that is a dangerous ghetto."
Jersey Gardens could be the most successful real estate development in the history of New Jersey. The property is worth more than $1 billion - multiples of its construction cost - and brings hundreds of millions from other countries into the state each year.
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03-08-2018, 10:26 AM
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"THE JERSEY GARDENS MALL that is a dangerous ghetto."
Jersey Gardens could be the most successful real estate development in the history of New Jersey. The property is worth more than $1 billion - multiples of its construction cost - and brings hundreds of millions from other countries into the state each year.
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I can add that a very substantial portion of their customer base consists of foreign tourists who are shopping for bargain clothing (and luggage to carry it in) just before their homebound flights depart from EWR.
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03-08-2018, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by bookspage
I like the new open malls they are building better.
Anyone remember when Garden State Plaza was an open-air mall?
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Of course! That's how it was when I was growing up. Then they built Paramus Park, which was a nicer, fancier mall in comparison back then, so GSP turned around and enclosed, too. Then they expanded and got HUGE, and now Paramus Park looks like nothing. |
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03-08-2018, 10:40 AM
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Westfield acquired the JCPenney box at Garden State Plaza and is set to spend half a billion to improve the mall.
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