This Day in History: 1956-01-12
Plans were released for a $3 million shopping center at the Ramsey traffic circle at Franklin Turnpike and Route 17. About half of the stores were reported to have been already leased and parking for more than 2,000 cars planned. the facility, about two miles south of the new Ford plant in Mahwah was designed to service a trading area including 18 municipalities in northern Bergen County and in Rockland County, NY. Among the leases already signed were one for a W. T. Grant department store, a Grand Union Supermarket and F. W. Woolworth. The developer Carl S. Carlson of Ridgewood projected sales of seventeen million dollars a year from about 200,000 square feet of floor space. Construction was set to begin on March 1st.
(Bristow)