Some suggestions: Trader Joes (with wine). Harold's Deli....a great delicatessen. There are none in the area. It would create jobs and is very different. A few outlet stores....coach, a good women's clothing shop. Also a uniform place that sells scrubs. such as Life Uniform....the closest one I know of is by the Eatontown Mall

Lifetime Fitness Gym. IT IS THE BEST GYM!! The closest one is in Berkley Heights. About 45 minutes north.

On a separate note, Shoprite should remodel their store on 36. A lot of potentional. People from Hazlet are going to Middletown and Lloyd Road to shop at Shoprite and other supermarkets.. No one wants to go there because of its look. It needs more than a face lift. It needs to be rebuild, and Shaker would make his money back.

Walmart

Parking lot for commuters. It would relieve the residents of hazlet who are consumed with commuters clogging up their streets.

A Walmart would do very well...........

Well, there have been ongoing efforts to have the entire block, 36 to stone rd to poole ave back to 36 (excepting Dunkin Donuts and the shopping plaza) into a county park...with a nice walking/jogging trail, back to nature areas...etc...

If it has to be developed, then there should be a "destination" built...Something on the order of a Smithville...or similar to the Shopping area in cape may...two rows of stores (shops, restaurants, cafe's, art galleries, ice cream parlor's, bakeries (food court?)...etc) with a wide walking concourse in between...at least partially roofed to protect from the elements...with parking behind and natural areas mixed in..Hazlet's mostly known now as being a town on 36 that you pass through on the way to Sandy Hook...this would bring in people from all over to visit...and spend some time and money in town...a boon for the small business person !

The Hazlet2030 Vision plan had a few ideas...mixed use retail, residential with natural areas and gathering places...

Used to be an entire section on the Hazlet township website devoted to the visioning plan...but they lost it when they reworked the website...most I can find nowadays is a single page describing what it was...it's a shame...lot's of good information and ideas went away !

@ joseph bucci...........great idea....walking area, small town shops,sidewalk coffee...... yup, that's the ticket.

I like this idea of the small town shops, walking area. a Trader Joes would be nice as well,this would be a boost for Hazlet. Though no more banks and drug stores please!

I'd love to see something like a Roller Skating rink for families.

I've heard Wal-mart a few times, but I don't think that space is even big enough for Wal-mart's parking lot. Trader Joe's ain't a bad idea. Would a Cracker Barrel stick out like a sore thumb over there? It's not that far off the parkway and that's usually a signature mark of their chosen destinations.

I love Trader Joe's but don't think it would fit for that area...Walmart ?? I think the area is too small...Christmas Tree Shop maybe...we don't have any near, closest is in Freeehold. As far as Hazlet Shoprite, clean up your act ..you are known throughout area as the 'Dirty Shoprite'..hope they do move over to old Foodtown 35 store in Hazlet, at least it is in better shape.

If Shoprite is being relocated off of Rt36, I feel another supermarket would be a great convienence for our local neighbors in the Bradlee location. If not, how about a type of Brooklyn's Caesars Bay Bizarre. The total location would be filled with private kiosks containing any type of merchandise or foods. It can also have a one stop family center for parties and gatherings.

How about a large Baeball/Softball sports facility. Some turf softball fields & baseball fields which can run tournaments. Snack bar in center with 4 fields around it. Would want a inside winter workout facility as well with some open space and batting cages.

I 've thought about this for years. how such a waster of a building. I'm done with walmarts and costcos, although they are great and rake in the dough. We've enough of them. I was thinking more along the lines of community center for kids of all ages. Not your aver community center tho. Skate park outside. Science, computer, automotive labs and more inside. Making education fun and free by using volunteers. Or charitable donations? What about a bio-diesel refinery where we can learn how to do it? What about small solar and wind turbine manufacturing?

if we had exciting and interesting things for our kids to do, maybe that would replace drugs as a fun outlet? paintball, laser tag could arm them in tactics of warfare? Pre ww3 prep? They would get a helluva alot of excercise and fun playing "blackops" with lazer or paint. So many things we can do. But where is the real or best profit in it's use? This is the question we should ask.

An outlet mall with shops and a food court, it would bring jobs into the area. I very much like the idea Don Schiener has regarding a Ceasars Bay Bizarre indoor flea market.

wow. All we ever think about it consuming and the cash, never the traffic congestion/pollution it carries with it. Our kids on the streets with nothing to do but shop, eat , drink and drugs? Play videos? Play ball?

Just to let people know walmart was looking at the site years ago. But parking lot to small and farm next to it didn't want to sell. But a indoor play park of the kids would be great could put in bike ramps and other thing also a playground . great place for days of bad weather. even if it was a pay site

http://tinyurl.com/9cpv2td
is the location on google maps

Real estate trends indicate a precedence for converting areas such as this into walkable areas, much like an old-time downtown, with offices or condos/apartments above stores. Bikelanes are featured in such, and connect it to nearby areas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ginna-kelly/sprawl-and-cappuccino-cow_b_740340.html

Being only 1/2 a mile to the Henry Hudson trail, and a mile to the water, this could be a community asset, boosting property values. That said the neighboring home owners should make the choice, and decide what they want there in a "charette" type meeting.

http://www.charretteinstitute.org/charrette.html

Commuter Parking - have the Township offer a bond sale, have the proceeds pay for the land and building the garage....pay back the bond with charging people parking...simple...there is not enough commuter parking on 36

I like the idea of a downtown area with shops. Maybe even a few restaurants. We don't need walmart or more chain restaurants or fast food.

No Walmart, we don't need that garbage superstore here. And didnt we already have a "Brooklyn" style food store (Top Tomato) that completely crapped out in a REALLY good spot (holmdel)

Just leave it abandoned, it would be scary to see what they find when they rip it down anyway.

Maybe an iplay america or something on those line kids around here have absolnutely no place to go when we were we had roller rink or woods now their are none of those left

A Whole Foods and Christmas Tree Shop would fit nicely.

I would say a super walmart. Instead of this property going to waste and rotting away like it has for 15+ years. God only knows what kind of animals are living in it now. I know somebody to do the demolition in getting rid of it

The site isn't large enough for a Walmart. Christmas Tree Shops and either Trader Joe's or a Wegman's would be great. It's over a 20 minute drive to any of the nearest Wegmans (Woodbridge, Manalapan or Neptune).

Knock it down and turn it into a Super Shop Rite. The one across the street is just too small compare to other Shop Rites around the area.

Some sort of large indoor play place for the kids. Maybe even including an indoor pool. The kids do need a great place to hang out. Something with all sorts of areas and for all differnt ages. This way in the day they could draw the younger kids and at night the older kids.

A sprinkler park/playground (free) like Dorwood Park in Colts Neck or Aldi should move there and expand there store like the one in Oceanport/Eatontown/LB area

i have the best idea for the spot hockey is a great sport it is fun, skillfull and all ages can play i play and love it. I would love to see a pro size ice and roller rink their it would be called HAZLET HOCKEY this would help hazlet in many ways we could have a high school hockey team and other team will play as well. I see the other rinks and how packed they are . We have enough food and department stores in hazlet i hope somebody hears this it would be a great spot for hazlet thank you JOE KOCIS

The site should made into a neighborhood market Walmart store.
The parking lot is big enough for this scaled down Walmart.
I am sure one of Hazlet corrupt politicians can talk to Walmart.
Maybe the Walmart can be open only four days a week like the town
hall is so they can enjoy three day weekends and even a four day weekend
when the moon lines up with their schedule.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/neighborhood-364782-walmart-market.html

dave & busters. I also like the Hazlet Hockey idea...maybe something like good Sports on line road.

My wife and I have discussed this site many times. It cries out for a Wal-Mart. Based on the size of the property, I estimate 300 permanent jobs would be created, not to mention the construction jobs. I think it would be cheaper to replace the building for a number of reasons. If we could just replace our existing "empty suit" congressmen, "Propeller Head Holt" and "Do Nothing Pallone", perhaps we could begin to create businesses and jobs in Monmouth County. They have done a masterful effort of destroying jobs, ie, Fort Monmouth, Bell Labs, Monmouth Park, etc. etc.

Dave& Buster's with an imax movie theatre

W A L M A R T

Walmart is the wrong choice anywhere in the World, Do you pro-Walmart people ever read the national news? There is a good and valid reason they are called the "Evil Empire"