CTown Supermarkets
Owner: Nick Gonzalez
Opened: 1985
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: Krasdale
Location: 120 Clinton Ave, Central Ward, Newark, NJ
Photographed: January 2019
We've actually extensively covered this store on Grocery Archaeology (before I switched that to all closed supermarkets), even though I hadn't actually been at the time. My
March 2019 post has a lot of details about the store's history here, with the exception of the fact that CTown opened in 1985, which actually makes sense with the aerial photos we examine. As mentioned there, the C is long gone from this exterior sign, making it only a Town Town supermarket.
The inside, however, is much better maintained, if not the most modern. Though I haven't heard any updates on this lately, the CTown was originally slated to be demolished and replaced with a much larger, modern Food Depot on the same property, hence the lack of the renovation that Gonzalez's other stores in
Orange and
Dover have. Also, check out the other Food Depot in Newark, which opened in 2012,
here! Up next we'll be heading over to the Ironbound for our next four stores in Newark, beginning with a former supermarket tomorrow on
Grocery Archaeology!
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