Westfield Garden State Plaza is an iconic shopping destination, serving the affluent communities of Bergen County. The center delivers a best-in-class collection from everyday basics to luxury retail and new concepts. With an impressive mix of dining and entertainment, GSP provides the perfect environment to eat, play or just hang out. Changs China Bistro and Rosa Mexicano. Route 4 East and Forest Avenue, Paramus website. Mitsuwa Marketplace is the largest Japanese Supermarket in the U.
They have a wide variety of Japanese groceries, general items, electric appliances, cosmetics and all other products. Over the years, economists have maintained a running debate over whether Sunday trading increases retail sales or simply redistributes spending across an extra day.
There are real-world examples of local economies that appear to have suffered under blue laws, and others that appear to have not.
But Paramus both has the toughest blue laws in the United States—its Sunday-trading restrictions exceed the statute that applies at the county level—and lies in one of the top-ten zip codes for retail sales in the country.
The town also has a median household income more than twenty-five-thousand dollars higher than the figure for New Jersey. I asked him whether this amounted to resistance to consumerism. Kids play road hockey, skateboarders practice kickflips on open swaths of pavement, and you may suddenly notice the cawing of blue jays. The locked Garden State Plaza, lost among its empty parking lots, seems vaguely apocalyptic.
The scene is liberating, but also heavy with the demand that free time places on the self. You find yourself constantly checking your cell phone for messages.
More than twenty-one years have passed since Bergenites voted on whether to keep their consumer sabbath. At the time, the result was unequivocal: nearly sixty-five per cent of voters backed the blue laws, pulling a majority in sixty-six of sixty-nine Bergen towns.
In Paramus, blue-law supporters outnumbered opponents thirteen to one. Last year, Modernize Bergen County tried to collect enough signatures to get a repeal on the November ballot. After reaching its target of twenty-five hundred, the number that had been required to launch the referendum, the group learned that, under a blue-law-specific statute, the state requires pen-and-ink signatures from ten per cent of registered county voters in order to put the issue to referendum a second time.
And so, one Sunday in January, the group gathered at a Starbucks in Hackensack to reconsider its strategy. Modernize Bergen County has also had a hard time finding a champion among prominent business owners and politicians. The mall is huge and always clean. I love spending the day at this mall!
Every store imaginable. Can spend the day and not get to every store. Best Nordstrom's in area. The stand alone Best Buy Store has a large inventory, and good floor people.
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