Since we are limited on liquor licenses (3?) due to population and square mileage and bars and pubs are of the ways of the devil, why not have an IN-Town wine merchant who deals in hard to get wines? (This can also be due to the State of N.J's impossible wine importation laws and not the Boroughs belief in prohibition). THAT WAY, EVERYONE can benefit! You see, the wine merchant can sell TO THE BYOB patrons who will SPEND MONEY IN OUR TOWN and therefore the establishment can offer 5%.-10%? depending on weekday or weeknight discounts! The "wine merchant" can thus offer discounts to the restaurant customers with validation that they patroned a "participating" Collingswood eatery.
See? Win, win!

that used to happen at the store next to Bruno's then some law said they can't do that.............back to the drawing board. With Indie Blue and Zeppoli's another mom and pop place would do just fine there.

Maybe a police/fire substation would work. That way they can just walk across the street to the heights. Think of the gas savings. Just kidding!!

I'd dream of a Starbucks there, but with the population across the street, it's not likely. A fresh produce stand would be great there since we can't all make the farmer's market on Saturday mornings. But the police/fire substation idea might be the best I've heard! LOL

Agree on the fresh produce store since there's a number of people who have to walk to get their groceries.

Count me in on the police substation. Didn't the Heights at one time have its own substation? If so what happened to it?

I would certainly love to see a produce place too (like Sara's in town) for grabbing weekday veggies and such, especially since we don't have a nearby market.

Skate Shop.

Mr. Bonaparte what kind of ruffians are you trying attract to this town? We will have hooligans 50-50 grinding rails all over town. This will lead to Skate stops being installed on every hand rail and elevated curb in collingswood. .

Produce, coffee, books all sound good to me. Our part of collingswood needs more shops!

The tax base in Colls is outrageous, I know 2 widows who had to sell their homes due to collingswood rates! Quit trying to "compete" with the snobs in Haddofield dammit.

It be a great meeting place for the upcoming "adult soap box derby league" I'm starting. We could store our derby cars there and And hand put trophies to that months winners! Gas up Collingswood!!!!

I don't really see it as keeping up with Haddonfield. Collingswood often suffers from an identity crisis about what it wants to be and who it wants to market to: the"young and hip" villager that wants an alternate to Philly and a "cool" place to start a family or a Norman Rockwell painting. If you want to bring in people, you have to start with your tax base and that is your late 20, early 30 something first time home buyer. Many are DINKS (dual income no kids) and that includes out GLBT friends. You need to market differently to this type of population. A skate/surf shop, to me anyway, is a novel idea. You have to think outside the box in a "dry" town that competes with Haddon Twp and other moderately priced city-burbs. We have new construction coming up in the rebooted Lumberyard so, at least for now, no idea is a bad one.

What ever happened with the "shared workspace" for freelancers and work from home types?

A new massage parlor ;)

Food Co-op like Weaver's Way, Independent Coffee Shop or Starbucks, Fresh Produce store, COSI, UPS Store. As part of the "population" (WTH?!?) across the street I would walk across & support any of these.