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318 NJ-33, Mercerville, NJ

Original Tenant: ACME Markets Address: 318 NJ-33, Mercerville, Hamilton, NJ Opened:  early 1960s Closed:  1993 Later Tenants:  Smith's Ace Hardware / Party Fair Photographed:  January 2021 The ACME of Mercerville, at NJ-33 and Quakerbridge Rd, opened in the late 1950s or early 1960s and closed in 1993 when the replacement store opened just east on NJ-33. I was not aware, by the way, when I visited, that the ACME was actually both  the Ace Hardware space and the neighboring Party Fair for a combined total of 25,000 square feet. It used to be more obvious before the facade renovation. It also looks like that facade renovation included an expansion of the Ace Hardware out to the left side, making me think that whole space was previously the ACME. I didn't go into the hardware store nor the Party Fair, but I doubt there are any ACME remnants inside either. At the east end of the strip mall was an A&P, later SuperFresh , which was constructed separately and t...