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NAI James E. Hanson, the largest New Jersey-based full-service independent commercial real estate firm, announces it has been named the exclusive brokerage for 110 Route 23 in Riverdale, N.J. NAI James E. Hanson’s Jonathan Kristofich and John Schilp will oversee the marketing of the property.

Located near the intersection of Route 23 and Interstate 287 in northeastern Morris County, 110 Route 23 is a 14.51-acre, 133,032-square-foot component of Riverdale Plaza, a large retail power center. 110 Route 23 has been triple-net leased to BJ’s Wholesale Club, a leading warehouse club operator consistently offering 25% or more savings on groceries, general merchandise and ancillary items, and double-net leased to Staples, an office supply retail company and industry leader in workspace products like furniture, technology, cleaning products and traditional office supplies, since its construction in 1998. The active power center is shadow-anchored by Home Depot and Target.

The strategically located property casts a very wide trade with ideal accessibility to Morris, Passaic and Bergen counties via nearby Interstate 287. In addition, it has become a preferred shopping destination for residents in nearby Bergen County who are impacted by Bergen County Blue Laws that prohibit the sale of certain retail items on Sundays including electronics, clothing and furniture.

“110 Route 23’s combination of accessibility, visibility and in-place leases with two national tenants make it an ideal retail property in the current market,” said Kristofich. “We’re honored to represent the seller in the assignment, and we look forward to procuring a purchaser for this fantastic piece of real estate.”

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RIVERDALE — Residents said they are worried as hearings continued on a closely scrutinized three-home development at the top of a mountain in a neighborhood known for crumbling rock walls and rock slides.

A vote on the application for the Hidden Hills or Dube Development, is expected at the next Planning Board hearing on Nov. 1. The plans are a variation on an application the Board denied in 2007. It's a three-lot subdivision on 12.5 acres off Mathews Avenue near the Butler border.

Access would be up Overlook Drive through the 31-home Enclave development and a cul-de-sac at the end of Skyview Terrace. Down below is Rock Creek Crossing, a town house development built in the late 1990s.

The specter of falling rock haunts homeowners there, particularly those who live in building C, behind natural rock walls.

"I literally lose sleep at the thought of this," said Jason Margelefsky, who lives on the ground floor of the building.

He and his neighbors remember when in 2005 a rock slide closed down Timber Ridge Road, one of two ways in and out of the development, for six months.

"Fortunately there are no houses on that side," he said. "If something like that were to fall that would be in my living room."

Geraldine Mondello, another homeowner in building C, said about a year and a half ago a 7-foot by 3-foot rock came down.

"We say it's the Tilcon," she said in reference to Tilcon New York which does regular rock blasting in a quarry a mile away. "But this work here is going to be right behind us and these rocks are going to come down."

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On the opposite side of the Hidden Hills property to the north is a rock wall that collapsed in 2011. The massive rock slide there closed Overlook Drive for three days, sealing off the main road to the 31 Enclave homes. A temporary road had to be constructed off High Street in Butler.

Professionals representing Hidden Hills gave repeated assurances the construction of the new homes would not disturb the rock wall and would not lead to a disaster. Rock will need to be removed from the site, but blasting will not be used, they said.

"There will be no damage to any rock wall because it is just too far away from where the work is to be done," the geo-tech engineer, Eugene Schwarzrock, testified.

He said the new homes would not add any additional stress on the rock face near building C. He also said boring and drilling will not disturb the rock on the Overlook Drive side.

Several questions were also raised about rain water and whether there would be an increase in water runoff, or a shift in how water flows towards the neighborhoods and rock walls below.

Patrick McClellan, the engineer for Hidden Hills, said the objective of the project is to have zero increase in runoff. He said steps were taken to protect the other properties and that there will not be an adverse impact. A dry well will be installed on the property to help manage water runoff.

The rock expert testified that water running off the Hidden Hills site will not be a problem.

"We are not changing the groundwater evolution," Schwarzrock said.

David Merritt, an attorney for the Rock Creek Crossing Condominium Association, was skeptical. Merritt, and an attorney for the Enclave at Riverdale Homeowners Association, continuously put several tough questions to the Hidden Hills experts over the course of the three hearings.

He said that the homeowners bought in to the risk of the natural conditions but, "they did not buy in to the risk of those conditions being worsened by the property above them changing the way that the water flows."

RIVERDALE, NJ - June 9, 2023 - Today at 3 PM there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the new, larger location of The Parent TRAIN at 51 Route 23 South. Under the direction of owner Dr. Maria Salvanto, the Parent Train will continue to provide a single location to serve families with family therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, tutoring, group therapy, child advocacy consulting, and many more supportive services. The new offices are larger and will allow for additional services, such as an Occupational Therapy gym, an on-site staff psychiatrist, and a complete NJ Child Study Team. Each room has been carefully designed as child-friendly, allows the youngest clients to participate in play therapy, the older clients to be comfortable, and families to attend group sessions. Positive Customer Impact - Many clients have benefited from our complimentary services of Training, Resources, Awareness, Information and Networking. Whether an autism diagnostic assessment or a specialized adoption evaluation is needed, the Parent TRAIN can provide the necessary support. "In the first 18 minutes I spoke with Dr. Maria, she educated me on the process we are about to endure with our child's IEP, and I felt WAY more comfortable about everything than how my child's school made me feel."

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And we have a winner in New Jersey.

The Lukoil gas station on Route 23 south in Riverdale sold the winning lottery ticket for the $521 million jackpot, according to the NJ Lottery.

“We are thrilled that the winning ticket was sold in Morris County. I’m happy to congratulate Riverdale Lukoil South of 105 Route 23 South in Riverdale, the retailer that sold this winning ticket,” said NJ Lottery Acting Executive Director John M. White.

The winning numbers from the March 30 drawing are: 11, 28, 31, 46, and 59. The Gold Mega Ball is 1 and the Megaplier is 3.

The amount is the fourth largest jackpot in Mega Millions' history. The winner has a year from the drawing to claim the prize.

"It's exciting to think that their lives have been changed," said Nancy Levan, a cashier at the Lukoil, of the winner.

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Levan and her manager, Nash Riad, happily spoke to a swarm of reporters in between transactions with customers on a busy afternoon.

They don't know who the winning ticket was sold to. And they aren't sure how much the store looks to gain from selling the winning ticket.

Riad said he received a call from the lottery office in the early morning.

"They check the address and they told me, 'do you know that you are the store who sold the winning ticket for one person? Be ready. All news will be here.'"

Levan said it was exciting to think that she could've been the one that sold the winning ticket.

"We have a lot of blue collar workers that come in in the mornings so we're hoping it was someone that really needed it," she said. "It would be great for them."

Levan said one of her co-workers called her at home to break the news that one of them sold the winning ticket.

"Just knowing that it's one of our customers. That it stayed in New Jersey, stayed local, is an awesome thing," she said.

Levan said the biggest previous winning at the gas station was a $200,000 scratch-off lottery ticket off a $5 purchase in 2015.

Staff writer Leslie Ruse and Ashley May from USA Today contributed to this report.

Bograd's Fine Furniture, one of the last remaining high-end furniture retailers in the area, has ended its 89-year run.

The family business closed the doors of its Riverdale store after selling the 38,000-square-foot property to an auction company. The business will sell its final pieces at an auction next weekend, both online and in-store.

“I’m very proud of what we did at Bograd’s, and that will never change," said Mark Bograd, former president of the business. "We ran a very fine furniture business, ran it for many years, and we ran it the way we wanted to run it. Like anything else in life, it has its time."

Bograd's was founded in Paterson by Sam Bograd in 1930, during the Depression. The high-end retailer called Passaic County home for six decades, before moving to Morris County in 1996. The Bograd family flirted with closing the business in 2011, but after a deal to sell the building fell through, the business re-emerged with a new strategy.

In mid-2013, the retailer reopened in a smaller-format store at the same Riverdale location under a more modern name, @Bograds. In its final years, Mark Bograd served as president, and his father, Joe, was chief executive.

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This year, the family closed on a deal to sell its Riverdale property to A.J. Willner Auctions. The Bograds shared the news in a letter to customers posted on the company's Facebook page. The final auction will take place on June 15 for remaining items, the letter said.

The decision to shut down the business was a combination of Marcia and Joe Bograd's retirement, an opportunity to sell the Riverdale property and the reality that small furniture companies face fierce competition from larger chains and online-only retailers, like Wayfair Inc., Mark Bograd said. That's why he has decided to join the ranks of one of company's competitors, White House Designs for Life.

White House Designs for Life is a small furniture retailer, much as Bograd's once was. The business, founded by Karen Arakelian, has three locations: White House Living in Wayne, White House Luxe in Fairfield and White House Design Resource, the retailer's interior design arm, which has its own space attached to the company's Fairfield store.

Rather than having two small retailers competing for the same consumers, Mark Bograd said, the two operations could unite to compete against the goliaths of the furniture world together.

"My feeling was rather than try to re-create again another Bograd’s, that I would do better to try and join an organization that was succeeding and build on that success," he said.

Longtime Bograd's customers can reach out to Mark Bograd for assistance, even with items purchased at the defunct store, the company said in its final letter. Many of the brands carried by Bograd's are also available at White House, and many of Bograd's former employees also work at Whitehouse, the Bograds said.

"It’s a comfortable place for me to move, and I think it's good for our customer base to still have a fine place to shop," Mark Bograd said.