Montclair Readers Reply: New Businesses We Want In 2020

MONTCLAIR, NJ — We asked. Montclair answered.

It turns out Montclair residents aren’t shy about offering ideas about new businesses they’d like to see come to town in 2020. Local residents replying to our social media callout earlier this week offered a range of suggestions.

Requests included:

• car wash
• Lidl
• Shake Shack
• Surf Taco
• ice cream shop
• Trader Joe's
• Aldi
• Charlie Brown's
• Korean restaurant on Bloomfield
• Organic restaurants
• A kosher deli
• Wegmans
• A zero waste store
• A restaurant that is completely gluten free!
• An Italian bakery
• Anything but another nail salon
• a delicious salad joint
• Torchy’s Tacos

"Oh for crying out loud!" one commenter wrote. "The **** GROCERY STORE in the 4th Ward!"

"Open a grocery store in the south end," another reader agreed. "That's not a want, it's an urgent NEED."

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