Last tenant and opening date announced for The Yard, a new retail strip in Wayne

WAYNE — Stores will open in less than two months in the new strip mall at Alps Road and Hamburg Turnpike, a representative for the developer said Friday.

The shopping center, to be called The Yard, was built at the 1.4-acre site where Moore’s Home for Funerals had been for 65 years until it closed in January 2023.

Louis March III, the director of asset management for March Associates Construction Inc., said the first tenants may be ready to accept customers “around April 1.”

The 10,482-square-foot retail strip will have seven tenants, including two that are relocating from the nearby Preakness Shopping Center on Hamburg Turnpike.

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Those tenants are European Wax Center, a hair-removal salon, and Mathnasium, a tutoring provider. Others will include District Taco, GNC, néktǝr Juice Bar and OHM Fitness.

Rounding out the shopping center will be the first Crumbl Cookies location in Passaic County. The Utah-based chain has 1,001 shops in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

Its closest locations are in Morris Plains and in Rockaway Township, but unlike those shops, the Wayne shop will have a drive-thru lane.

The shopping center is at the same intersection where crews have mostly completed a $6.2 million project to add a jughandle, eliminate left turns and widen both Passaic County roads.

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March Associates, which also developed The Parke at Hamburg, a local shopping center anchored by a Trader Joe’s grocery store, is currently building a 280-unit apartment complex with 2,652 square feet of retail space at the site of a factory once operated by P. Ballantine & Sons Brewing Co. in Newark.

The brewhouse at the corner of Ferry and Freeman streets shut down more than 50 years ago, and the Ballantine brand is now owned by Texas-based Pabst Brewing Co.

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