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Wow. I hadn't even looked. That seems to be a 75 x 100 lot, and regular 25 x 100 lots go for $500k more or less a couple hundred last I looked. That's quite a stretch.

As I said earlier, I knew it would be priced such that a teardown for condos would be the only bidder. How many units would you have to put there to make it worth it? 40? I'm sure the developer would put a nice donation to our Mayor's slush fund in exchange for zoning it for something BIG!

That's amazing no one has said anything about the price. For 4.5 million dollars that place is going to remain a C town for a very long time.

the wreak of disinfectant there grosses me out. it makes me feel like they're hiding something. was there recently and saw they had packed four whole chickens to be sold individually from the fridge where you pick your own meat. It looked they simply wrapped them in cellophane as there was a lot of chicken juice pooling below them and into the rest of the fridge. pretty disgusting. wanted to alert the city about that. I might still buy dry goods there or less perishable stuff, but I pretty much have to hold my breath the whole time I'm in there.

My wife went in about a year ago to grab a bag of lettuce....what she didn't notice was the bird sitting there on top of the produce. She grabbed the bag and the bird flew up and scared the crap out of her. Needless to say, her last visit to C-Town. Makes for a good story though...

As much as I'd enjoy beating up on C-Town, the current owners are doing a better job than the previous owners. The rotten meat smell is gone (city inspectors had a lot to do with that) and there are higher quality products on the shelves. I wouldn't do my regular shopping there, but it's a handy store to have around.

meh.

I buy a pound or two of ground beef from there just about every time I do my laundry across the street (standard price of $1.99 is cheaper than all but the biggest Shoprite sales). Never been sick once in ten years of doing this. Not the greatest of stores, but certainly convenient for what it is.

Assuming something useful goes up in its stead, I will neither mourn its passing or praise its demise.

I would shop there daily if it didn't suck so bad!!! That place stinks of rotting meat, It is disgusting!

Trader Joes would be great! Screw the Goya products, Downtown JC is changing and the businesses need to change along with it!

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Yea God forbid one of the most diverse cities in America has a supermarket not geared towards the "affluent".

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It's neither large enough, nor attractive to them without parking. Chains like that would need parking since they would be looking for patrons from Hoboken etc. The best you could hope for is something like Hoboken's Basic Foods, but without Washington Street's foot traffic I doubt even that. "Go" failed nearby with far smaller ambitions.

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I'm assuming you mean really rough

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I'm sorry. I didn't realize my shopping there offended anyone.

Please let it become a Trader Joes or a Whole Foods or Something really nice.

I think the demographics of downtown Jersey City have changed enough.

It would be great to have a real nice produce section with top quality produce. What is at C-town is like the leftover C-quality stuff after all the chains like shoprite have taken the good stuff at the distribution center.

And the meat section. Have you ever tried buying a steak there to grill? I like my steak to be thick. every thing there is sliced down to like 1/8 of an inch and isn't quality.

C-town for many years has been geared for low-income and latino demographics - thus the aisles of Goya product and being greeted by WIC signs on the door. I've even seen vermin in there.

I really high quality upscale market (think Jefferson Market in Greenwich Village or Balduchis) would do well here I think.

C-town did try, with an organic section, but did not try hard enough.

FG

Living a short walk away, I have been in twice and each time disappointed. Almost anything else would be better there.

C-TOWN downtown is a diamond in the rough...no parking..get off your lazy ass....coops without pigeons....sounds like a golden egg too me..

This place changed hands two or three years ago too, I believe.

I'm laying odds on a teardown for a condos as high density as they can bribe for. I doubt there's a business that'll want a space that large and off the beaten path that has no parking.

I'm not saying that it couldn't be a great midsize grocery or a larger restaurant than we typically have away from the waterfront (Embankment excepted), just that even in this market a condo builder would be able to offer far more for the lot, and I'll bet it'll be priced as such.

Saradove, it's only a few more blocks to Village Pets. BJ's has the best deal on scoopable though.

Uh oh ... been buying my cat litter there for 22 years.

Since you're buying the business, I guess it's just going to stay a C-Town franchise. More inedible meat and moldy frozen foods.

I think Zabar's is likely.

On the other hand, if Citarella bought them they'd be able to keep the "C!"

Whoever buys them, I hope they keep the same high level of class as C-Town, and that same delightful smell of spoiled meat.

I heard Whole Foods was scouting the building this week.

Normally a lurker here, but I had to post when I saw this listing on Weichert's site. It looks as if the C-Town on Jersey Ave. is looking for a buyer. My hope is that it remains a food store, as dealing with the crowds at the Shop-Rite on a semi-weekly basis isn't something I want to consider. Anyone know anything else about this?