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It's a space that appears frozen in time.
A sign indicates the business is open for customers. Two cups of coffee rest on the counter, never to be sipped again, while waiting for fresh-baked loaves of bread to be bagged and rung up at the counter.
The space formerly home to Verrilli Bakery has been vacant for a while. Located at the corner of George Street and Martin Luther King Avenue, it shares company with several other vacant properties in that area, including just down George Street, right before the Market Street Mission Thrift Store. Unlike that carved out shell, the Verrilli location fronts a relatively busy thoroughfare, in an area in need of reclamation of lost commerce.
So, in this special one-off edition of "Occupy This Space," we're asking: What should occupy the old Verrilli Bakery location? Chime in below.
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Verrilli's Bakery
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Market Street Mission Thrift Store
25 George St, Morristown, NJ
DD
10:09 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
Let's start with a Police Sub Station, will save a lot of gas.
Back in Mo'town
9:44 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A substation is a great idea in theory but it would just take away another ratable that this town's people cannot afford.
The Mud Lady
7:27 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
It's a lovely location.
I plead the 2nd!
2:48 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I think it is a dangerous location.
Cletus
2:50 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Really lovely. Pity Monet isn't alive to paint it.
DD
9:47 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
OK, Forget the Sub Station, let's go opposite side of Universe, Medical Marijuana Cooperative would be perfect there...
Cletus
11:58 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
"Two cups of coffee rest on the counter, never to be sipped again, while waiting for fresh-baked loaves of bread to be bagged and rung up at the counter." Oh, dear, these poor, sentient cups don't know the joint is closed? They must go on, they can't go on, they'll go on.
Janet Blanchard
12:19 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A teen center, somewhere for our children to hang out at and have some fun. Pool tables, ping-pong, and some pinball machines. Something like an arcade, maybe with a snack bar.
Back in Mo'town
12:55 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Taking away more ratable? Oh no, sorry, but "it's for the kids"!
Shooter McGavin
1:12 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Sounds like you want to build a time machine, Janet. It isnt 1978.
Rose Farrell
1:59 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I think 1978 was a very good year...back when I was in the 7th grade and watching "Happy Days"...
I really like your idea, Janet. There really aren't places for youngsters to congregate and enjoy some good, clean fun.
John Dunphy
2:03 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Actually, Rose, the folks at Teen Pride would beg to differ. Good folks, offering plenty of free programs for kids after school. They don't get noticed quite as much as they should: http://morristown.patch.com/listings/teen-pride
I plead the 2nd!
2:50 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
really bad idea. Kids should not be hanging out, they should be working or training to be working. The economy is going to take a nose dive very soon.
Janet Blanchard
2:03 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
@back in Motown, if the kids have somewhere to go maybe they would stop doing some of the stupid things they are doing to get locked up.
@Shooter McGavin, I know what year it is. I don't want a time machine, I want somewhere for our youth to go. Maybe then we can get a handle on bullying, teen drugs and teen violents.
I plead the 2nd!
2:52 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
They don't need a place to go, they need a purpose to fulfill. Hanging out playing pool is not going to teach them how to pay rent or buy food.
Janet Blanchard
2:04 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
@Rose, thanks for agreeing. Our teens need sonething of the sorts.
John Dunphy
2:04 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
And, before a contrarian asks why we have not included information about them on this site: http://morristown.patch.com/blog_posts/teenpride-a-great-local-organization, and http://morristown.patch.com/articles/hip-hop-mini-camp-coming-to-teenpride
Rose Farrell
2:08 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
John...I know about the wonderful work Teen Pride does do for children...,however, it is a different "type" of place I speak of...where children can go casually after school.
I plead the 2nd!
2:54 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
They can go do their home work, or do the house chores for their family, they can try and get a part time job.
Katrina
10:27 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Kids can also go to The Original Music School at 26 Morris Street and learn to build ther creativity, discipline and learn the value of delayed gratification while having so much fun they won't realize they are how much they are learing! www.originalmusicschool.com