Grocery Archaeology

Original Tenant:  Foodtown Address:  141 S Main St, Manville, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  2004 Later Tenants:  The ARC of Somerset County Photographed:  June 2020 Our second store in Manville (see the other here ) is this former Foodtown at the south end of town. I got it from a different angle from Josh Austin, who photographed the store back in 2014. The building has been extensively modified for its current function as offices for the ARC of Somerset County, an organization serving those with disabilities. The 12,000 square foot building closed as Foodtown in 2004, leaving Manville with no supermarket today. There is, however, an Aqui Market just to the north in the Finderne section of Bridgewater. And tomorrow, we're heading into Somerville and Raritan for a store each on  The Market Report  and here on Grocery Archaeology!

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  114 N Main St, Manville, NJ Opened:  mid-1990s Closed:  2011 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  June 2020 Our first of two former supermarkets here in Manville, today a supermarket-free town (although the mall containing this former A&P does have a Walmart). This 1990s store at the north end of the downtown was a replacement for an older store at the Rustic Mall just a block south, which has since been demolished . Interestingly, despite the store's relatively recent construction and modern format, it was only 30,000 square feet, being wide but very shallow. There seems to have been plenty of space on the property to construct a larger store, so I wonder why that didn't happen. Josh Austin got a picture of the space before it was subdivided here , and Dan Asnis captured some interior photographs too. Our next stop is at the south end of downtown Manville, which you can check out here . And tomo...