242 Lincoln Blvd, Middlesex, NJ

Original Tenant: ShopRite

Address: 242 Lincoln Blvd, Middlesex, NJ

Opened: 1968

Closed: 1984

Later Tenants: Pathmark (1984-2015) > Price Saver Fresh Marketplace (April 2019-September 2019) > SuperFresh (coming soon)
Photographed: December 2021

We return to 242 Lincoln Blvd for a whole lot more pictures. This is a long post, and if you're not interested in wandering around this entire property feel free to just read the introduction and move on. The real news here is that all indications point to this property being successfully sold to SuperFresh.

The property, which has been vacant since September 2019, was the subject of one of my visits back in July 2020. In the last year and a half, nothing has really changed.

However, this Tweet appears to confirm what I heard from an inside source several months ago. My source told me that Howard Lee, who owns several SuperFresh stores in the area along with Food World in NY, had entered negotiations to purchase the property here and presumably reopen the supermarket as a SuperFresh. The Tweet suggests that the property was sold to "SuperFresh" so it stands to reason it's within Lee's company.

There's a lot still left on the inside from Price Saver, and it's unclear how much renovation SuperFresh will do before moving in. Part of Price Saver's sales floor space was dedicated to hardware, which I assume SuperFresh will not keep.

This was the cafe in the front. I assume it takes the place of Pathmark's self-checkouts.

Looking across the property. As we'll see, it's not completely vacant.

Plant seeds, anyone? That's overflow from the True Value hardware department, I have to assume.

Signage still left inside, dismantled.

Here's the right-side entrance and exit, along with the entrance to what I believe is the offices of a real estate developer on the second floor. The company, Forte, was responsible for the redevelopment of this property and the apartments next door.

Cub Liquors is still in business, and seems to be pretty busy from my brief visit.

Here's the new apartments at the other end of the property.

As you can see, the supermarket building is not just large but strangely placed on the property. It's very close to the street but there is a row of parking in front of it.

I had a nice surprise this time, which is that the side parking lot (which had been fenced off) had been opened up.

So let's see what there is around here...

Interesting attempt at disguising this Pathmark cart corral! I wonder if the green paint ever made it all the way to this leg. There wasn't much left of the signage but the signs are actually double-sided...

And hey, we get a nice sunset while we're at it.

Loading docks in the back. Unfortunately, I didn't see a Pathmark labelscar on that truck.

But I did see this Pathmark shopping cart, horribly mutilated but still on site. I'm not sure if Price Saver had their own shopping carts or if they used Pathmark ones.

One more shot of the sun and the loading docks before we move on. You can be sure I'll be back to photograph the SuperFresh, but for now, that's all at Price Saver. Here's the other coverage we have today!