Blockbusted on Route 112 (Empty in Port Jefferson)
With the behemoth video rental store gone, what will take its place?
The assault on brick and mortar stores selling things that we can now get with the click of a button on the Internet continued last year with Blockbuster in Port Jefferson Station and the Borders Books in Stony Brook both finally closing their doors.
Earlier this year, it seemed that the Port Jefferson Station location of Blockbuster was spared the carnage when the company closed many of its stores in the area, including Miller Place and Smithtown but a few months later, the Blockbuster on Route 112 shut down, leaving a huge vacancy in the shopping center that includes Lemonleaf Grill and a Mather Hospital outpatient clinic.
Route 112 has undergone major construction that has recently been completed and traffic moves much better through the area, although it still gets snarled around the train tracks just north of this location.
If traffic is a little bit less of a problem now, then there's an opportunity for a big retailer to come in and take the place of Blockbuster or, if the owners allow it, the space can be subdivided into smaller businesses.
We'd like to know what you think. What do you want to see in this space formerly occupied by Blockbuster Video?
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Lemonleaf Grill
208 Route 112, Port Jefferson Station, NY -
Mather Outpatient & Alcoholic Counseling Clinic
208 Route 112, Port Jefferson Station, NY
Mike G.
3:52 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nothing...My advice to a person who interesting to open any business around port Jefferson stays away from here Rents are so high, big parking problem more than %50 businesses are for Sale and most of the business going out of business every year
Americanivory
5:41 pm on Friday, January 27, 2012
I agree with Jack, and that parking lot is a horror to get in and out of. Plus the big problem of the homeless hanging around this parking lot and the Jeffreson Plaza Shopping Center. I never go shopping down that way anymore. Untill the owners of the businesses and the landlords do something about the homeless and tell Father Frank to close Pax Christie and stop cabbing the homeless to our area I suggest any new business go somewhere else!
BillLongisland
1:33 am on Monday, January 30, 2012
It's like being in an Occupied Country and combat zone during World War 2...what kind of business would fit here...how about a tatoo parlor, pawn shop, or a bar ?
Phil Enright
5:20 pm on Monday, January 30, 2012
How about a bar, liquor store, smoke shop, and OTB ? Fits right in with the moral decay and the secular attack on religion..
Haig
7:31 pm on Monday, January 30, 2012
You forgot a porn shop or Acorn Storefront
BillLongisland
6:40 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
How about a "24 hour" headquarters for the Guardian Angels, that includes a street "clean up detail"...yes, Street Sweepers !... with "recruits" not-voluntarily conscripted from the every growing population of Hope House ?
Naw, they wouldn't do Anything "civic minded" like that or that actually contributed to cleaning up The Mess the maintain "in that part of town"...or would they ?
They don't think in terms of actually "contributing something", intrinsic to the Community they serve....it would mean actual manual labor instead of trolling The Rail Area for money !
BillLongisland
11:39 pm on Friday, February 17, 2012
Went into the Rite Aid late afternoon, the other day, and was a little more than Shocked to see a very pleasant and friendly Security Guard there, greeting customers.
It's the first time "way out here" that I have ever seen this kind of "security", right in the store, other than a parking lot.
Yes, the neighborhood in "Upper Port" surely has declined to This. Very sad.
Yvonnea
5:10 pm on Saturday, February 18, 2012
It is sad. I really enjoy shopping in the new Bravo Supermarket, so it's a real problem to see the people (homeless/inebriated etc.) hanging around. You have to rotate your head to make sure you're not going to walk into some "situation". It has become a real, visible issue and you can't ignore it.
BillLongisland
12:41 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Only Way to fight this Crime and to get The Political Elites to listen, is to Boycott The Businesses there !
Loss of Money "Talks", Everything Else "Walks" !
If you can't do that, let those businesses know how you feel about the Creepiness, and ask them, to ask The Landlord to Clean It Up !
Sally
2:34 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
Its crazy what goes on in the area. It looks like the city sometimes.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-island/1499853-port-jeff-station-becoming-comparable-brentwod.html