Trader Joes has made it pretty obvious they are not coming to Hillsborough. With that in mind, I suggest the landlord make the needed upgrades to the building and subdivide into 2 smaller spaces which could perhaps attract Party City for one half and maybe Panera for the other.

I wud love to see Baja Fresh move in there!!! Then we can have more choice then italian or chinese food.

I agree Baja Fresh would be great, and a party city would be wonderful.

I'm still a Trader Joe's hopeful. A girl can dream! - - I wonder if anything will ever go into the old Dairy Queen spot further down on Route 206, too...

Panera Bread would be great there! Tractor Supply store would fit there too.

Chili's!

I think we can count out another bank or pizza, bagel or chinese food joint. Maybe Mexican restaurant? Maybe a cafe with a small stage and art gallery? Maybe a bowling alley. I like Trader Joe's! Subdividing the space is also a good idea.

I'd love to see a Dick Blick art supplies store go in there so I don't have to travel to Bridgewater to go to a crappy crafts store but not enough people would support and art shop.

I like Baja Fresh as one of the stores. They can put a bank in the other ;-)

I agree with Harold, a Panera bread would be a great addition for Hillsborough. Personally, I would love to see our Starbucks relocate to a much larger space than they currently occupy as the store is the smallest Starbucks I have ever visited. How about a Dicks Sporting Goods store?

We need a good bakery!!!

Michaels, Bed Bath & Beyond or Old Navy would be a nice change of pace for the town

If Trader Joe'w won't come, what about a Whole Foods?

Trader Joes would be my first choice. We do need a bakery!!! And anything that isn't a bagel, a pizza, a chinese, or a bank would also be great!!

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I think an Amish farmer's market would do very well in Hillsborough.

I like a lot of the ideas already mentioned... Baja Fresh, Chili's, Bowling Alley. How about a billiards place to play some pool? There aren't a lot of them around at all. Panera, Michaels, Bed Bath & Beyond or Old Navy are already local, there's no point. If you can't make the drive to Bridgewater than you're just lazy ;) Panera's right at the circle! There's also already a fantastic, new bakery at the corner of Amwell & 206 in the same strip as Five Guys.

Seeing as we lost Marty's Shoes a few years ago as well and really only now have Payless and whatever you can find at Kohl's, I'd love to see a nice shoe store go here. But, obviously, a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's would be a nice.

Anyone who can afford it!

Why would anyone go there. The bypass will take half their customers away.

HEY ALL YOU PEOPLE throwing out all of these great ideas. Go to the next Town Council meeting and demand your cut of the pay your tax money is paying Eugene Strupinsky, our town’s “Business Advocate,” to come up with these ideas. After all you are doing his job for him, why shouldn't you get paid just like he does?

Remember, Eugene is the guy who cost the Township taxpayers $70,000 a year to have has his finger on the business pulse of this town. Like telling us K-Mart wasn’t closing, and there are no business vacancies between New Amwell Road and Amwell Road

Dick's Sporting Goods would make a killing! Modells isn't that great at the circle and going to Lawrenceville is too far!

My vote (again) is Trader Joe's or Whole Foods.

how about a local branch of a commercial real estate office to manage all of the vacancies in town?! ;)

8 out of 10 articles on the Patch, have people shouting for Trader Joe's in the comment section. Why don't you call Trader Joe, and see if it's a franchise. If it is, pool all your money and open one. if it's not, write letters or get a petition going, and send it to Joe. I'm pretty much 99.999999% sure Trader Joe, or his business agent are NOT readin Hillsborough Patch.

No matter what they put in there they're going to need to do something w/ the parking lot. The gym takes up a ton of spaces already. The building is old, looks worn down, and should be gutted and re-developed into smaller spaces

I'm wishing for a Baja Fresh or Q'Doba in town. I tried Chipotle by Maggiano's and Commons Mall, but I don't find it worth going to Bridgewater just for that. I think if SaladWorks, which is a little off the beaten path, can do well where it is (at least it seems to be, and I hope it is) then Baja or Q'Doba may do well. Whenever Q'Doba posts to Facebook I write, please come to Hillsborough, NJ 08844! And the social media person usually posts back that they'll look into it (which probably means nothing more than thanks for your interest).

I've been in town since 1977 when Cost Cutters was Food Town. There was also a great clothing store where the chinese restaurant is and the liquor store was an ice shop. I had heard that the Food Town was a bowling alley prior to being a food store, but I don't know that for sure. Does anybody know?

LOL...Come on Hillsborough....knock it all down and build us a new High School...with AC/Heat and some new plumbing! Or....bring back some of our lost farm land. Enough sprawl...Hillsborough...."The Good Life"

I wasn't living here back then but thought I remember the Ice Cream shop being called Luvin Spoonfull?

Buxtons was par. a ton of emails to the comapny's home office then huge support once whatever it is finally opens.t of a small chain: Hillsborough, Flemington, Pluckemin (which lasted into the 90"s) and a few more I believe. Whatever the residents want to see come in will need a ton of support to get it here, ie tons of emails to the company's home office then strong and loyal support once it opens. Famous Daves in Hillsborough was listed as one of the slowest in the chain and Marty's Shoes went back to many of its old sites but did not return here after it restructured. Unless the locals get behind local businesses they will not survive.

I would love a whole food or trader joes, but the only thing we can do is suggest it to the corporate home office. It would be nice to have several smaller independent stores.

How about a Hillsborough Disneyland. It would fit right in with the fantasy world
The Town Council lives in. ( Please let them know this is not a serious suggestion)

Today I was thinking, if I ran the Body Shop gym at Cost Cutters, I'd want to move it into the Cost Cutters space and make it like a Bally's or LA Fitness. The gym's current space could be a Jamba Juice or something. But in reality, the rent would be so much higher and all of Hillsborough would have to go there.

Another observation: I'm not liking the way the new Citi bank, where Charlie Brown's was, has an exit onto 206 right next to Hamilton. And then right next to that is the driveway for Hillsborough Radiology. And then the fire station. Isn't that some kind of traffic hazard?

A Q'doba and/or Baja Fresh anywhere in town would be fantastic. I also really like the idea of an Amish or PA Dutch farm market. Would love a Whole Foods, but would they consider it too much competition with Wegman's right on 202? Could also be neat to have a BJ's in town. As far a smaller places, I miss the Lobster Dock, wish we had someplace nice for fresh fish (over-the-counter or sit-down-to-dinner) in town again.

I would also love to have Trader Joe's move in that spot. It would be great not to have to travel down to Route 1 in Princeton whenever I want something from there. An offshoot of Whole Earth (not Whole Foods) in Princeton would also be a good choice. They are the best health food store in Central Jersey, probably all of New Jersey.

Looks like we're getting a new yogurt shop just a few hundred yards from another yogurt shop (not far from the ice cream shop that probably also serves yogurt). How does that happen?

I'm happy we have Great Clips now. They have a phone app for making appointments. I tried it at the Manville location and I didn't have to wait at all for my haircut.

To get something like a Trader Joe's or Fresh Foods in that location, we would have to ask the gym next door to move. The town would have to provide incentives. After work when the gym next door is in full swing, the parking lot is half full. A major negative for a large scale potential tenant. Otherwise you are looking at splitting the space into two smaller scale businesses. There are no offices nearby to provide day time customers, just commuters or residents. Realistically I don't see any business taking that location until the 206 bypass is completed. Who would want to set up a business only to see the highway traffic drop off significantly? Most chain businesses want to build their own building. A Mexican restaurant like Chi Chi's somewhere in the 3 towns would be successful.

I am thinking of putting a billiards place along with table tennis and arcade machines in that location please let me know your thoughts so I can make a firm decision. Thanks