What Business Would You Open in North Andover?
Your imagination is the only limit, what would you open in North Andover?
Imagine you had the tools and resources at your disposal - what business would you like to open in North Andover? What would work in the community?
Here were some ideas from the North Andover Patch Facebook page.
- Craft store
- Toy store
- Cheese shop
- Trader Joe's
- Whole Foods
What new business would you like to see come to town? Discuss in the comments below.
Cool Fusion
9:09 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
If this creaping fungus of business development continues.. our landscape will resemble Saugus in a score of years and the lake's hinterlands will be carpeted with particle-board housing and thruway Quickshops. North Andover has been developed enough and in the not too distant future will be known as "The Mistake on the Lake".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
Bryan McGonigle
12:08 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
So Cool Fusion, your answer is confusing... What kind of business would you like to see come to North Andover?
Cool Fusion
3:12 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
How about a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot?
Don't it always seem to go .. That you don't know what you got till it's gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM
Elisa Reppucci
12:27 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Trader joes
adele gaulocher
6:08 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Downtown needs more stores that are a destination-Cool deli with good sandwiches and cheeses--gift store-ice cream or yogurt shop-bookstore/coffee house--
Bryan McGonigle2
6:58 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I think Adele is on the right track - especially with the yogurt shop.
I'm no expert in this area but I've been thinking about the new bank branch being built on 125 where the Mobil station used to be. The bank will have convenient parking and drive thru windows. I'm sure it will be a very pleasant experience to visit this bank compared to the two banks across the street from on another downtown.
I find myself needing or wanting to go downtown much less as a used to. I no longer use the banks downtown, there are quite a few more dunkin donuts locations around town, and I don't seem to have to visit town hall very often. Without the supermarket, I don't think of this area when I think about food ...
With parking on both sides and all the entrances and exist, its not the most pleasant place to drive thru on a Saturday - you have to slow down, watch for cars from all directions, and watch for pedestrians ...
Maybe the redevelopment of the Bradstreet School will start a modernization of the area that will make it more of a destination for all.
Cool Fusion
10:08 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
The trouble is that at this point in this downward spiraling service economy is that we have too many places selling the same things. When an area becomes super-saturated with retail competition which shared sales, either margins have to increase (consumer price hikes) or you have go out of business. Your Deli's, cheese shops, and ice cream store are already here and even many more in our sister town two (2) miles and 5 minutes down the road. Exactly, how many more NA pharmacies do you need to acquire your psychoactive drugs - 5 ,6, 8?
Andrea
8:23 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I was thinking that a restaurant at the old police station would be an improvement rather than seeing the empty lot. I'd call it "Cell-ebration".
adele gaulocher
10:12 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I think that we should want to go downtown and be proud of it. Getting the right stores would really add to North Andover--Water Street could be a very happening place if we had more stores that attracted the town's people--I think that the Mill has done well and that if a few more places went in there then it would be great for the town--Right now there are 3 great establishments who care a lot about the community. Like to see more at the Mill--some Art galleries and some fun Art classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sue Percival
4:28 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
I like the idea of a NY-style deli near the Post Office. Maybe keep the businesses "small" in the downtown area. I also like the idea of some new restaurants for that area. For bigger stores, I like Talbots, Lu Lu Lemon or Athleta for the Burton's strip of shops (since these bigger-name stores are already there). I agree with Adele: it would be nice to make downtown a "happening" place.
kathy Stevens
7:52 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
I wish Annies Book store were still here.
kathy Stevens
5:28 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
Take a look at the Art Space at east Mill.
http://www.eastmillnorthandover.com/artspace.php