Quick Chek Application Receives Approval
Convenience store and gas station would be open 24 hours a day.
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A new Quick Chek will be located on Hamburg Turnpike in a few years.
The Planning Board approved the privately owned company’s application Tuesday to build a new convenience store and gas station on the former Chrysler Dodge property.
The site is located at the intersection of Hamburg Turnpike and Ratzer Road.
The new business would occupy the one vacant corner in what is an otherwise busy intersection. CVS, 7-Eleven, and Brother Bruno’s Pizza are all located around the property. William Paterson University is located a few hundred feet up the road.
Local business owners told the board they were concerned that the approval will have a detrimental effect on their businesses.
Naik said business is down and that adding Quick Chek will only cause him to lose more business.
“It’s not just going to affect me, but other small businesses in the area,” said Jaydeep Naik, owner of the 7-Eleven store across from the location. “My employees are going to lose their jobs.”
The business would offer commuters and residents another place to purchase gas on the heavily traveled roadway.
Unlike other area convenience stores, Quick Chek will have 13 seats inside and 20 outside for patrons to sit and eat.
A traffic impact study conducted last year determined that the majority of vehicles heading into the establishment would already be traveling on local roads.
Vehicles will not be allowed to turn left onto Hamburg Turnpike from the parking lot. Officials said the move should minimize traffic delays on the roadway.
Charles Olivo, a traffic expert, testified that the county Planning Board will allow drivers to turn left into the parking lot from Hamburg Turnpike.
Like the Exxon gas station on Route 23 South, the eight fuel stations would be located under a canopy.
The three existing buildings on the property will be torn down.
The store is scheduled to open by 2014.
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CVS Pharmacy
1762 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ -
7 Eleven
163 Hamburg Tpke, Wayne, NJ -
Brother Bruno's Pizza
140 Hamburg Tpke, Wayne, NJ -
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, NJ
Maggi Puglia
6:36 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
There are not alot of gas stations up that stretch of the road.
Nose Wayne
9:04 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
YES, we need a gas station there because there are none in the area, but we DON'T need another convenience store there. You have CVS and 7 Eleven on the other two corners.
Daniel Hubbard
11:02 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Yeah, another gas station there would be really nice.
Pad
9:00 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Competition is good. 7/11 will survive. Hey look on the bright side of it. Our illustrious do nothing Mayor will have another ribbon to cut when they open up. Its what he does best. BTW did they have to change the protective barrier color from green to something more appealing to the Mayor. It seems that all he could say about this. Anything is better then the vacant, disgusting lot that is there now. Also college students won't have to cross this busy intersection to buy anything. It will be much safer for the pedestrians in the area. Also we need a gas station in this area of town. Also its another ratable for the township also.
Nose Wayne
9:13 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Pad, you NOSE him too ? See they are gonna have seating in there.Do see a lot of college kids cross Hamburg Turnpike. And we don't need another VACANT building. Says it will take a few years. Hopefully we will have a new Mayor by then.
Dead Hoffa
9:44 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Free enterprise people....it builds America......not government tax sucking jobs....it will make the town money.... Mr Naik has a lot of nerve.....I can imagine how he'd have reacted if the town told him he couldn't build his 7-11......
Richard Dean
8:18 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012
Quick Chek is a very successful New Jersey home grown chain of excellent convenience stores, almost like mini supermarkets in many locations, virtually all of them have made to order deli sandwiches etc. Their fuel prices are always among the lowest.
I have no connection to Quick Chek other than as a customer and was supportive of the application before the Butler Planning Board which took 16 months of hearings for the conversion of the former Royal Pontiac property which was a dealeship from 1935 to 2007.
Several times over the past 10 or so years when in the area of Paterson Hamburg Turnpike and Ratzer Road, I have stopped at that 7Eleven store to get a soda or something from the cold case. Like with most 7Elevens each time I do so I say to myself that there is no real attraction there. But 7Eleven is the world's largest convenience store chain with something like 30,000 locations; in many other states most of them also have fuel pumps just like their location on Route 23 soutbound at what was "killer bend" until about 40 years ago.
Richard Dean
8:21 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012
BTW, during the "battle" over the Butler proposal, I posted findings from the public state website for property tax assessment information that indicate other modern Quick Chek's with fuel pumps in places like Franklin, Sussex, Newton and Lafayette all pay in the range $60,000 to $80,000 in property taxse annually.
Nose Wayne
9:31 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pad, Don't NOSE if he just bought the business or the property ? Sign outside says managed by ? Also have Tommy Chang next store over. Do see a street sweeper in there at night, but people are just slobs and don't throw their garbage in the can. Seen other Quick Cheks around.Very clean. Good Luck to all.