more restaurants willing to do the same donating. Mahwah and Ramsey businesses worried, if they go out you'll have to go the mall to eat

the Mahwah and Ramsey business are worried? How do you know that. They just started a conversation with you and told you they are worried?
btw as long as Ramsey HS stays on main st. the food joints will be fine mall or no mall.

yes, we eat out frequently, friendly with owners, asked what they thought of mall, many said worried if people go shopping and eat there, and if kids hang out at movies (10plex) and eat at mall. instead of main st theater. a few mentioned should do a restaurant week . the group should contact all the restaurants

Smashburger is packed, 5 Guys is packed ,Anthony's is packed, Shannon Rose is packed,Olive Garden is packed,Chili's is packed, IHOP is packed , Sun Am the diners are packed, Kinchleys is packed,Lotito's is packed at lunch, Mason Jar is packed, MBG which has only 1 other eatery between it and 6000 Ramapo students is packed, Roxannes is packed, La Gondola is packed.

But if a few more places open up in the mall .....it's the end of the world

Hank - the places HAVE to be packed at peak times - to be able to afford the slow days/nights/times when front and kitchen staff, and rent an energy cost, still has to be paid. People spend a lot of time (not just when the restaurant is open) without striking it rich.
It only takes a few percentage points of reduced business to turn a profitable place into a loss. So I can understand why local eateries are worried about patrons being siphoned off to a different "hang-out".

oooooh. get out of my yard! hey, cute dog; is he hank jr?

I'm saying there is still a big demand for food and the more the merrier
If you have good food you have no need to worry
Do you think Kinchley's is worried?
River Palm is shaking in their boots?
Lotito's /wycoff bakery worried?
I would love to see:
Polish Restaurant
German Restaurant
Outback
Cruise ship style buffet
Polynesian restaurant
Micro brewery
Crab House
Waffle House
Johnny and Hanges II
a real tacky seafood joint with nets on the ceiling
the heck with MBG

--Hank, the fam & i iust had a lovely time at MBG with many other patrons. my mushroom swiss burger was spot-on and the sam adams draft helped me be even funnier than i already am. i see you are 'crossing them off your list' (fyi, that sounds a little self-important)... i hope the owners are not wailing in the street.
--i'm looking forward to Roxanne's next week! your argument is interesting though that we should build a 650,000 sq ft mall in the hopes of maybe getting an outback or a real tacky seafood joint with nets on the ceiling. on the other hand, maybe your idea's not so healthy... and is as terribly lonely as it sounds .

"Stay true to Mahwah's roots". fine thoughts from a dynamite Lady... thanks Joey!!!

In other words, this fund raiser is to pay for their lawyer who is going to be forced to drop the case. This money is for services already rendered my friends.

is that what you've been told jp mall apparatchik? you think you are connecting all the dots but your lines read like two year old scribble. You're home alone tonight; do me a favor and send Hank some roast beef. i'm going to MBG for a burger and some beers!

This isn't a thread for your Birther opinions Stacy, it's a thread about the mall. I see they deleted by first comment, but you have it in your email. Never, I repeat, never insult the American president. It's un-American, unpatriotic, and uncouth.

Ahh, I see they put my post back. I guess Mahwah Patch isn't as one-sided as I thought. Thanks!

Stacy
Perhaps the truth is larger than your one sentence . Ronald Reagan tripled our national debt in the name of your sacred lowered taxes. George Bush (W) made billionaires way richer by sending the industrial war machine into Iraq (where there were no WMDs); he bankrupted America hence raising your taxes (emotional as well as financial). Mitt Romney began life as a multimillionaire and is now obscenely opportunistic with his callously enlarged wealth (i think he has your vote to come thru for you). And a bunch of Tea-Sippers signed a silly ruse of a pact (constructed by another blower of billionaires) to never raise taxes, and you are one of the dupes who again believes it's for you. Consider that the "either/or absolutes" are false, and a perilous investment. Perhaps you and i are no less of a fraud than Barack or JP. Perhaps we all need to start thinking differently. Your anger is not more special than any others... and anger is an 'emotion of the moment' designed to pass thru us while accomplishing a task. Anger was not designed by God to be held onto like religious faith; that just grows us cancer.

Our personal contributions of spare time and smallish monies are dwarfed by huge corporate donations. Our elected democrat/republican officials are beholden to those larger funds, and so for us they can only dilute & diffuse the other's attempts to address our demands for reform. This is the best we get from two political parties who are no longer designed to deal with us as society... We haven't the might to deal with the massive monsters we created (i.e. wall street, banks, AIGs & Enrons, energy cartels, the industries of war, etc..), within our vitiated political system. It will take time to improve what we have compromised with mistakes and complacencies. But this won't come by intractable positionings that dismiss 50% of the population, or Supreme Court rulings like "Citizens United; this i can guarantee. We've all heard the bitching; who's got a patient answer?

Kevin,you were sworn to secrecy

Maybe you should read the posts in sequence Kevin and see who called who something first.

Not a chance moron. You can call me names all you want, but I will fight tooth and nail for this mall to go up. Believe it!

How about maybe flagging down the ones that insulted me (and the president) first? However, resident, these posts automatically go out as email as soon as you hit submit, so why bother.

please don't confuse me with facts

They also fail to understand Lily, that any vendors going in at the new mall, ARE Mahwah local businesses ALSO and should get just as much support as all the other local businesses. That land is MAHWAH, not Jabib.

5 guys burgers just hired 20 people. if those people are from the area, is it a local business?

Lily, i've read your comments. Just curious, would your name having only one "L" in the second consonant position be pronounced with a long "I" sound (Lie-Lee)? i know of course the name may be total fiction, but even in your imagination how would Lily (as opposed to say Lilly) be pronounced?