East Windsor adding new businesses
By Doug Carman, Staff Writer
EAST WINDSOR The township’s newest shopping center will see three new businesses open next month, and a fourth set to open its doors in March or April, according to an official with the real estate company that owns the property.
Fred Patterson, Vice President of Construction for Robertson Douglas Group, said it leased out four of its lots. He said an Indian grocery store called Patidar Cash & Carry, Bollywood Hair Salon and ýPage=002 Column=001 OK,0005.09þ
Kumon Learning Center are tentatively set to open in February.
Meanwhile, displays are already showing for Edible Arrangements, and Mr. Patterson said the snack boutique was set to open within two or three months.
“I think the center’s doing pretty well,” Mr. Patterson told the Herald. “Usually, it takes two to three years to fully lease it out. We wanted to keep the clientele that was there … I think we could have leased it out earlier but we wanted to get some national people there. We had a vision and we’re happy it all came ýPage=002 Column=002 OK,0000.09þ
together.”
With the four new tenants at Windsor Crossing, located on Route 33, near Route 130, Mr. Patterson said the 90,000-square-foot shopping center is about 90 percent occupied.
Neither Patterson nor the East Windsor building department had contact information available for any of the four tenants moving into the shopping center at press time.
According to its Web page, Edible Arrangements has about 1,000 locations nationwide and, as its name suggests, specializes in making flower boutique-like arrangements and baskets out of edible fruits and chocolates.
Mr. Patterson said the group planning to open the Kumon Learning Center described it as a tutoring center for children from preschool to high school, focusing mostly on math and reading skills.
Though Mr. Patterson said he believed Bollywood Salon its name a reference to the Mumbai, India film industry and the Patidar Cash & ýPage=002 Column=003 OK,0008.04þ
Carry would draw residents from all backgrounds, he acknowledged the two new businesses are also a sign of the growing Indian community in the area.
“I think there is a concentration of Indian people in East Windsor from the sale of houses behind it … to the church down in Robbinsville,” he said.
While discussing the township’s economic future, East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov immediately brought up the four new leases at “our town’s newest shopping area” as a highlight for the New Year, following what she called “a very difficult couple of years” for the town and the state, and nation, for that matter.
“We are seeing some positive signs,” Mayor Mironov said. “I don’t want to overstate them but there have been updates we have seen throughout the town.”
The Windsor Crossing shopping center, adjacent to Home Depot, was completed three years ago. The shopping center is part of a larger master plan that includes 101-home community behind the businesses.
The shopping center also houses a bank, Via Roma, Mahzu, Gold’s Gym, Muscle Maker Grill and Hot Peppers.
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