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THE BORGS AND PARTNERS START CONSTRUCTION OF LUXURY APARTMENTS IN HACKENSACK

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2020/07/japanese-conglomerate-owns-equity-fund.html

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HACKENSACK CHRONICLE REPRINTS NEWS STORY
ON 'LIKELY' CLOSING OF SEARS STORE.

The Sears Roebuck and Co. store on Main Street in Hackensack is called "iconic" and an "outdated mainstay in the heart of Hackensack" by reporter Melanie Anzidel of The Record and NorthJersey.com.

"The retail dinosaur has slowly lost its footing in the Garden State," she wrote, noting Sears filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 2018. The store opened in 1932.

Anzidel then wrote:

"The store [in Hackensack] even downsized, in a potential last ditch effort to survive, by selling off a separate parcel of its land to build an ALDI, a German discount grocery chain that opened on the shared property in 2017, at the other end of the parking lot."

Knocking down the Sears tire and auto battery store to clear the property for construction of a supermarket doesn't sound like downsizing to me, and it wasn't "a separate parcel," as Anzidel notes herself when reporting ALDI opened in 2017 "at the other end of the [Sears] parking lot."

When Sears filed for bankruptcy, the retailer still operated stores in Hackensack, Livingston, Rockaway, Wayne and Jersey City, which soon may be the only Sears left in New Jersey, Anzidel said.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 

A SHORT WALK ALONG HACKENSACK'S MAIN STREET SHOWS EFFECT OF PANDEMIC

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-19-showroom-without-toyotas-wear.html

Just saw this. LOL. What would be so terrible that people might vote for me (anyway, I won't be running for office again) or a candidate like me?

You prefer Main Street the way it was?

I would like to identify all of the people who are profiting tremendously from redevelopment, not the developers, but people like the Gelbers, former Mayor Jack Zisa, the former head of the business association who spearheaded the redevelopment and too many others I don't know.

FOOD AND PLASTIC PACKAGING DON'T MIX

You May Be Eating a Credit Card's Worth of Plastic Every Week

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-more-we-learn-about-plastic-and.html

COSTCO CHANGES SENIOR HOURS AGAIN

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2020/05/costco-wholesale-keeps-seniors-guessing.html

Eric Martindale, can you elaborate on these statements?

"But the real story is the tremendous increase in tax revenues. A lot of that has to do with properties in the immediate proximity of new construction in the downtown and vicinity."

Are you saying properties next to new construction will be paying more in taxes? When do the buildings under construction start paying taxes, when they are finished, during construction or both?

NOT MANY SIGNS OF HOPE IN MY FAIRMOUNT NEIGHBORHOOD

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-abundance-of-hope-but-little-joy.html