One of Haddon Township's two supermarkets is on the move to bigger digs. Thriftway will take over the space left vacant by the shuttered Superfresh.
Signs plastered on Thriftway's windows proclaim the move.
Ever since Superfresh closed its doors in January, the Westmont Plaza shopping center was in danger of becoming a ghost town with five empty stores and no anchor store. A "ghost of Superfresh" balloon in the store since its closing, and visible from the sidewalk, was an ominous warning.
Superfresh occupied 48,142 square feet in the Westmont Plaza.
By moving, Thriftway would leave behind its Crystal Lake Avenue space—no word if that also includes leaving behind its name of Crystal Lake Thriftway as well. Thriftway anchors its current shopping center, which includes a Rite Aid, copy center, pizza and Chinese restaurants, dance school and other smaller businesses.
Even as the move solves one problem—a grocery store in easy walking distance from the Haddonview Apartments on MacArthur Boulevard—it could create another one. If no grocery store moves into the empty space on Crystal Lake Avenue, residents of Rohrer Towers and Haddon Hills apartments lose their supermarket within walking distance.
Correction: The square footage of the old Superfresh building was originally reported incorrectly. A correction was made at 10:54 a.m. July 22.
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