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Title: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: BLeafe on October 28, 2014, 12:22:42 PM

http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/costco-says-it-is-closing-hackensack-store-next-year-1.1119291

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Homer Jones on October 28, 2014, 02:35:50 PM

I could see Walmart or Lowes taking a look at the site.

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Victor E Sasson on October 29, 2014, 08:50:16 AM

Wal-Mart already took a look at The Record's 19.7 acres for a Super Center, so I think the Costco site would be too small. Also, I patronize the Lowe's store in Paramus and it is far less busy than the Home Depot in Hackensack. Would another Lowe's make sense here?

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Homer Jones on October 29, 2014, 11:16:41 AM

From what I read many of the big box chains are sizing down rather than sizing up. If that is the case, this building and site might fit into some company's site criteria. Only time will tell.

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: just watching on October 29, 2014, 04:32:28 PM

Just for laughs, I have a few possible land uses to offer  I am going to beat David Letterman on the top 10 potential uses:

First, the County could buy it and make a bigger homeless shelter, enough to accommodate 1000 homeless people from throughout the Northeast United States.  And the existing homeless center could be sold to a hotel chain, perhaps a Super8 ?

Second, Hess could make a new oil tank farm, to replace the one they are selling in Bogota.  And to restore the land to it's former use before the Price Club was built.

Third, the land could be claimed by a Native American tribe as "ancestral land" and developed as a casino

Fourth, it could fit at least a dozen bail bonds shops

Fifth, more parking for HUMC, complete with bus service to the hospital

Sixth, Hackensack police can buy it and make another burger and ribs place to compete with Cubby's who they want to run out of business

Seventh, a drive-through movie theatre, since there are none left in NJ

Eighth, wetland restoration area and a canoe launch for the Hackensack Riverkeeper

Ninth, a couple hundred units of garden apartments to serve as transitional housing for inmates being released from the Bergen County Jail

and

Tenth, this could be larger space for that Fu*king Smoke Shop, once recreational marijuana is legalized in NJ

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Victor E Sasson on October 29, 2014, 07:19:06 PM

Great list.

How about turning The Record land, which is in a flood zone, into a Venetian theme park, complete with gondola rides to the Ling?

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Homer Jones on October 29, 2014, 08:49:13 PM

Another concept might be to clear the Borg's Woods site and relocate the City DPW site to there. The present DPW property could then be combined with the Costco property to create a large redevelopment parcel. This plan would also put an end to the coyote problem around Byrne and Brook Streets.

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: just watching on October 30, 2014, 09:31:43 AM

Haha.  You'll have to fight with the Native Americans on that one.  There's clams and oyster shells back there, evidence of Native American settlement onsite at one time. They surely would want it for a casino site, and maybe knock out a few houses on Summit Ave while they are at it.

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Homer Jones on October 30, 2014, 04:55:20 PM

The clam and oyster shells are probably true. Ol' Homer just returned from the Amazon jungle and rain forrest and we saw shells along tributaries of the Amazon River in Peru which is quite a distance from the Atlantic Ocean.

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Editor on September 29, 2015, 09:50:32 PM

http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/new-role-for-costco-store-1.1420794

Title: Re: It's official: Costco closing Hackensack store next year
Post by: Editor on March 10, 2016, 01:16:58 AM

http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/hackensack-costco-to-reopen-tuesday-as-business-center-1.1524990