Strip Mall - 14th Street
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8/29/2008 Update:
Construction is moving quickly at the upcoming strip mall on 14th and Adams.
Please for the love of god, provide us with “Change” and make sure no Starbucks ends up there!
8/7/2008:
This is going up adjacent to the Clearview Cinemas which is in the early stages of construction.
Strip Mall coming together
After a slow start, the new uptown strip mall on 14th and Adams is chugging along nicely.
There will be approximately 15,000 Sq. Ft. of retail space available, and supposedly already includes a bank, liquor store and coffee shop (hopefully Dunkin’ Donuts or Chock Full of Nuts. So sick of the Starbucks already!)
Also included are around 50 parking spots as well. Which is nice, because it’ll give an opportunity for commuters to stop by on the way to or from work.
What about the craptastic roads?
Earlier in the year, both Mayor Roberts and Environmental Services Director Joe Peluso said that some of the city’s horrific roads (most of them are horrible) are on the list for being repaired this year.
Peluso said that nearly half a million dollars would be used to repair various streets around town this year, including 13th Street, which both the theater and this new strip mall are located. Additional streets on the list were, (parts of) Fourth Street, Sixth Street, Jefferson Street and Garden Street.
Whether these repairs happen in our lifetime this year remains to be seen.
1. homeworld | August 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
What’s going to stop people from utilizing these 50 spaces to go to the theater next door?
2. 9 | August 7th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
homeworld wrote:
The vigilance of the Dunkin Donuts security force, silly.
3. matt_72 | August 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
homeworld wrote:
They tow over at the drug store on 13th all the time. I once stopped in on the way home from NYC, went in there and some guy runs in complaining his car had disappeared from the lot. The tow truck drivers apparently go in the store and ask if anyone owns any unfamiliar car if that car has been there for more than an hour or so, they announce the car & plate over the intercom & if no one shopping in the store responds, it gets towed. That is what happened to this guy. Parking is for patrons only…….and I bet this mall will have the same policy.
4. Tiger | August 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
They tow over at the drug store on 13th all the time.
I think I’m gonna quit my job and start a towing business to compete with MileSquare towing, I’ll give Mayor Roberts Hoboken a bigger cut and charge patrons even more, that will teach them.
Anyone in with me?
5. bradykp | August 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
matt_72 wrote:
yeah, it’s really not that hard to enforce.
6. rag246 | August 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
My wife came out of the CVS on Clinton to see her car hooked up to a Tow truck. She had been in the store maybe 15 minutes.
7. bradykp | August 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
rag246 wrote:
women are so silly
8. 9 | August 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
rag246 wrote:
I call shenanigans! No woman is ever in a store for only 15 minutes!
9. Journey | August 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
9 wrote:
I could get in and out in 15, but I hate shopping.
10. plaintruthiness | August 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
bradykp wrote:
They’d have to go into every store in the strip mall. Then again, most of those spaces will probably be taken by store workers and the Dunkin Donuts truck. That truck somehow gets a free parking space pass at the strip mall on Newark & Adams all day.
11. starfish | August 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
That parking lot is a bad idea. The developer should be encouraging LOCAL foot traffic. Not people with cars. But then again, maybe the city anticipates a new revenue source by the constant towing of cars from this lot? Most likely.
12. plaintruthiness | August 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
starfish wrote:
Cops need somewhere to park their patrol cars when going to Dunkin Donuts. I don’t think they’re going to get there on foot.
13. elainetyger | August 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
plaintruthiness wrote:
I heard that over by the auto supply store at Newport, they have spies from the tow company. If they see you get out of your car and leave the lot rather than going to one of the stores in that complex, they immediately call for your car to be towed. Maybe the new complex will use a system like that.
14. hobojoe | August 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am
elainetyger wrote:
Confirmed.
Never was really much of a problem until they started taking all of the parking away from the mall, and charging $$$ for what was left.
15. homeworld | August 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I remember reading about a woman who went into BJs to shop, put her purchases in her car, and then walked across the street to the bank. They towed her because they no longer considered her a customer once she had finished paying for her merchandise.
16. matt_72 | August 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
plaintruthiness wrote:
That is why they “get to know” what cars belong….. And it isn’t hard at all to enforce and if they tow someone, it is pure profit. That lot will see a lot of cars get towed once the theater opens, and then once everyone realizes there is no place to park, that theater is dead meat. My theory now is the city deep-sixes the idea of a community center/pool and puts a parking lot in for the theater on that tract of land. In effect, we are going to see Roberts sacrifice the community center to put in the parking that Tarragon didn’t have to supply when they got their variance.
17. CreativeAngel | August 29th, 2008 at 9:48 am
bradykp wrote:
Ha-ha. Fifteen minutes is always at least 30-40!
18. CreativeAngel | August 29th, 2008 at 9:50 am
C’mon, 411. You KNOW you want to see that 5th Starbuck’s!
