Shoptalk: Haddonfield Business
Gary Reses Still Bullish on Kings Highway, Even Though He's Leaving
The co-owner of Forever Young, the former Jamaican Me Crazy, ends 11-year run in the borough.
Gary Reses is still bullish on Kings Highway, even though he closed the door to his Haddonfield gift shop Sunday for the last time. Reses, 49, the co-owner of Forever Young, the former Jamaican Me Crazy, is reinventing his business from a gift shop to a young-adult home and apparel store on the campus of Rowan University in Glassboro. He and his wife, Nina, had run their Haddonfield shop for the past 11 years. Reses said his move says more about the opportunity at Rowan than the business climate in Haddonfield. "If it wasn't for this project and this opportunity, we wouldn't be leaving," he said. "We did very well here for 11 years. We just have this unique opportunity." Reses said Rowan and Glassboro are pouring $300 million into a new …
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Maryann Campling
9:43 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Lots of unhappy merchants/service providers in town....even with the tourist trade, this is a tough town in which to do business. And JW....good point, increased taxes will force landlords to raise the already crushing rents these folks pay. more ›