ALDI
Opened: 2019
Previous Tenants: Pathmark
Location: 3020 NJ-35, Hazlet, NJ
Photographed: January 2021
Our next Hazlet store is the very new 24,000 square foot ALDI in the Hazlet Town Center! It replaced part of a former 45,000 square foot Pathmark. Acme Style grabbed the strip pre-renovation (it's been very nicely revitalized) back in 2017.
Here we can see most of the Pathmark space with a newly renovated facade. The store moved in here from a smaller location across the street, which you can check out in today's other post here. Tomorrow we're going to see our final Hazlet store just across the highway here on The Market Report!
Looking good! Wonder if they'll repave the parking lot soon. I remember it being pretty rough when I was there years ago.
ReplyDeleteIt's still amazes me to see the most recent satellite photo I included in the post (circa 2017) that shows the kmart absolutely mobbed and a big crowd at Pathmark. You can even see SEVEN trailers parked in the back of the Pathmark! Kinda wondered if the photo was taken the day before Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve but totally wasn't since the trees are still flush with green leaves. In all the years I researched for Acme Style, I never once saw a crowd like that at any kmart at any point in time!! Here's a link...
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pE6Eyh3QPY4/WYEIL-2EedI/AAAAAAAAjXM/i7Y-wTx-FK4iaZjtj7FemqfY_DUhsdOxgCLcBGAs/s1600/amce_style_hazlet_kmart_pm_100.jpg
Pretty sure that Pathmark would have been long-shuttered by 2017.
DeleteAre they leaves or just evergreen type trees (at least the ones right behind the store)?
DeleteThose to the far right look a bit less green... maybe fall?
Possibly something else using the Pathmark space (like one of those Halloween temporary stores)?
Or just earlier when both stores were still open (since you see the Kmart sign and that is missing in your other photos, so it had to be before Kmart closed at least but could it be earlier?). Maybe just before Pathmark closed with a crowd checking out the GOB deals?
Mike - going by the original poster's own post (the one linked above the photo by the words back in 2017), that Pathmark closed when the chain did (Nov. 2015) and the Kmart in Oct. 2016.
DeleteAlso that the photos posted from March 2017 show the Kmart without a sign, but the aerial shot shows it with one makes it seem a bit earlier. Could just be late 2016 (maybe during the closing of Kmart, would also explain lots of cars and could also be using the Pathmark as temporary space if it was October) or as suggested earlier when both were still operating. Hard to tell.
I did a mystery shop at that Pathmark not long before it shut down, but before they started the going out of business sales. Middle of the day on a Saturday and no exaggeration, I was the only customer in the store.
DeleteYes the areal view with all the cars in the parking lot was definitely taken years before 2017!
DeleteThank you all for your insight and history here! I've been out of commission for a few days due to work but glad to come back and see a lot of good info here!
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