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MainSt530a0301NJLE_2024-03-01-05-48-06

It is Friday and time for another edition of Main Street, New Jersey. New, some New Jersey's Lauren de is highlighting local businesses, but she's with the mayor right now of Springfield, Lauren. I'm with the guys in Springfield guys. We're gonna start with the mayor, Mayor Weber Mike Jay. Everyone's here this morning. Good morning, everyone. It's five. You know, what time is it? 544 in the morning, we're up ready, go and mayor, this is an upcoming town right up and coming town. It is, you know, uh, Springfield had, uh, a very sleepy reputation for a lot of years and we're seeing an enormous amount of development in the last, just five years alone in, in one year alone. We've got a floor and Decor, we've got a crunch fitness. We've got, uh, um, the metropolitan is starting to lease uh, luxury rentals already. We're doing fantastic here. And also you were talking about the storefronts. You have a pretty, uh, pretty good statistic for that. Yeah, right now, uh, storefronts are almost fully occupied. Jay, am I right on that one? Yeah, Jay, what do you got? Yeah. So, I mean, our storefronts were below 8% which is where you want to be within the town, everything between the support from the township and the businesses, everyone in town is just backing up everything that's going on. Mayor. I mean, it's, it's really a booming town that's coming from, like you said, a sleepy area to an area that's gonna have everyone talking about it and everyone wanting to come here and live here, shop here and play. Well, I'm excited to be here and I want to talk to the most dialed in, man. Uh, great. But I'll, I'll talk of the town, uh, Mike over here. And what's your role in all of this? Well, I'm the chairman of the, the business improvement district along with Scott Seidel. And, uh, what we do, we make sure all the businesses we market them, help them create, we drive business to, uh, the residents coming to town, a wonderful resident commu community. So, uh, we love it here and, uh, Springfield is the best place to be. So, come on down to Springfield. All right. And we're gonna take everyone to the salon. All right, let's go there. We're in Springvale, Lord De New Jersey.

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MainSt6a0301NJLE_2024-03-01-07-10-33

We are in Springfield this morning for another edition of Main Street, New Jersey, New South. New Jersey's Lauren de has been highlighting local businesses. And Lauren, you are at a salon this morning. Are you getting anything done? We are. I know I gotta ask, I gotta ask George George. Ok. This is Cappelli Amani. How'd I do you, did you see it with the ac access of Capelli Amani? And I will give you a video that sound to you. We're gonna be here 20 years. Wow. How does that make you feel? It's, it's uh you know, it's one of those marks you, you hope to get, we started late, you know, owning my own slan, but I've been here in Springfield for 45 years. Um but the 20 years here have been great and the, the community is really, really been good. I've seen people go and come back, you know, third generations coming in the chair and sitting in and enjoying. It's a, it's a little home. We have a different type of salon here. We have people from the twenties to the seventies that are working here. I have people here 1518 years working for us. So it's a great group of people and every day it's an enjoyable thing to come to and, uh, and work a DC, look a great boss because you're the owner, you are literally here every single day at six o'clock in the morning. It's crazy. Right. I know. I have a problem. I don't sleep. Well, what time do you even open? Well, I officially take my first client at 630 then, you know, go from there but you can't possibly be busy every single moment of the day you'd like to. But this is my home. This is my second home. So one year home though, right? It's everyone around. So you have all these chairs. Can I grab some hairspray? So this is a go to table. So as the, as the shop is busy, they don't have to have their own product. So you'll see people moving and moving. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then real quick, let's take everyone in into the other side. Right? How cool is this? Chuck? You could wave because there's mirrors here. You literally have to look at yourself. Yeah. So we have um four stations here and this is where our pedicuring. You want to get a pedicure, you wanna get a haircut and then we have an extra room for waxing over here. Yeah, it works. It works. It is, it has evolved over the 20 years. But um we made some big changes in it and it's, it's our home and we love it. Oh, George, I love it too. Thanks for having us here. Capel. Money means hair and nails, right? No. Hands in hands. So, what does it mean? Hair and hands in Italian. There you guys. We're in Springfield this morning. Lauren De, he's from New Jersey.

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MainSt630a0301NJLE_2024-03-01-07-10-49

It's Friday. That means it is time for main street, New Jersey. And this morning we are in Springfield, New, some New Jersey's Lauren de highlighting local businesses and you're in a deli right now. What are you going to order? We are gonna eat. What do we have here? We have all the Allen from Allens deli and catering with his dad, Chris here, Alan. What do you make for us this morning? So we have a roast beef turkey sloppy Joe, a real New York style sloppy Joe. We have with a pickle. Look at that pickle pickle sour pickle. We got corned beef pastrami, sloppy Joe. These are our specialties. We have brisket and this is another thing that we've been making for a long time. Homemade Knishes. We have potato knishes and spinach knishes with spicy deli mustard. It's the only way to do a knish. The spicy mustard sounds really good. And this is Kosher style deli, right? And your dad Chris over here, Chris, you're really proud of this deli. Well, you work your hard on it, you know, so it's uh it's a day by day routine and they just keep going and make sure everybody's satisfied and everyone is satisfied because people love this place. They've been supporting you for 10 years and uh we keep moving in, you know, so the company is gonna be here for another 10 years, you know. So, you know, so everybody's welcome to try our specialties and uh our lunch specials and so on. What do you recommend myself? I love my K pastrami. Ok. Yeah, that's nothing like it. And Alan, what do you love about working with your dad? Working with family is a lot of fun. Um, actually my mom works here too. She's in the back desk. Oh, mom is in the back. So, we're, uh, hi mom. Family owned business. We're from Springfield. We went, I went to, uh, Springfield High School here. So, uh, it's, it's a lot of fun. We know a lot of people and we love doing what we do. This is so great. What a great community spot, guys. We're hanging out in Springfield, Lauren Dune. He's from New Jersey.

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MainSt7a0301NJLE_2024-03-01-07-19-06

Here. We are on another Friday. It is time for main street, New Jersey. And this morning we are in Springfield, New some New Jersey's Lauren de is highlighting local businesses and Lauren, I think it's time to grab a cup of coffee or eat a snack, something, right? It is Simon Nook. Nick, everyone. Look at this ready Simon Nook. Look at this. It's time to get roasted. We're gonna blast off here. We have here, we have Bellamy here. I mean, I just want to show off the outside. This is amazing. Yeah, we have, we had a vision and we just put it together. So what do you say? I just want to show off the outside because wait till you see the inside too. This place is definitely a sight to see. Yeah. Come on in. Let's go. Look at this place you walk in. It's such a vibe here. I mean, this place looks great. Harry. And when did this all start? And how did you make this happen? It started just before COVID hit in. And what we did is when once COVID hit, we saw an opportunity and we took, we expanded the kitchen, we did everything the right way and it's working out perfectly. So we're very happy of where things are going. And like I said, we're looking to stand a new standard for what you get and what you should have. When you go someplace to have coffee food, it should be like, wow, what a great food. What awesome coffee. What a nice comfortable place and it hit perfectly. So we're very happy and your daughter loves it. Bellamy, this is great. They're the future they're gonna be taking over soon because I've been working a long time. Girl, my parents are very proud of this place. It's like, it's like their fourth child and we're proud of the people who work here. We have amazing staff. They're all awesome. We have customers that come are awesome like family and like what's going on is what's going on here, destroying people. It's showing the right people and letting them know that you know what life is, getting better, things are getting better. Look at this attitude. I just wanna have a cup of coffee cup chit chat with you. So I think we're gonna do that. I'm gonna come sit in the chair, that's literally all hockey sticks over here. So look at me, sporty spice, Nick over here. I'm gonna sit down in this and I'm gonna have a cup of coffee and have a conversation. It's great. Thanks for having us sit here rosters. We also, we also have people that come with those tarot card read. She's awesome and this is where she sits. We're trying to make her a house tarot card reader, which is really good. So maybe once a month we're gonna start it and I hope they could predict the weather because we gotta get to, we can predict she could predict anything. She's pretty good. We're at Springfield Laura, dude, it's 12 New Jersey. We're gonna chit chat about this great company for coffee. Lauren. Thank you. The conversation continues this morning.

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Hey, look Heinz. Who did your hair? You look beautiful. We are grooming by Brandy in Springfield, New Jersey and you are so certified because Heins looks amazing. Thank you. Look at all your certificates that you have up there. So what are those, those are certificates acquired over the years? I am a certified master groomer, a member of the National Dog Groomers Association of America and also a member of the New Jersey Professional Pet Groomers Alliance. And look at your experience too. I think you've had your fair share of dogs. Yes, ma'am. And so what through all your hairstyles too, by the way? Thank you. So, what was your experience there? That was um dog shows. Uh I, I am a third generation dog show handler. My grandmother was a breeder. My aunt is still currently a professional handler and I grew up as a junior handler showing as well. I know anyone can come see you and bring their dogs to you. So Brandy, let's go back here. It looks like we're going behind the scenes behind the scenes with us too and this is just our grooming area. We currently have four groomers including myself and two beers. And what kind of experience do they go when they come? I seen the pictures, the dogs look like they get a full on blow out the full service from start to finish nail cuts, bath, blowout stylings also specialize in breed specific cuts. So if you have a pure bred dog that has a breed standard cut, uh we do specialize and are happy to maintain the integrity of their coat. Brandy Heinz looks amazing. This is definitely the place to be Heinz. Do you want to treat? You wanna treat? I don't have any Randy. Thanks for having us. Thank you, my pleasure. Or in Springfield, Lauren de East 12 New Jersey.

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MainSt830a0301NJLE_2024-03-01-08-45-46

It's Friday and time for another edition of Main Street, New Jersey this morning, we are in Springfield, New South. New Jersey's Lauren de is highlighting local businesses like she does every Friday. So, where are you now? Lauren? Ok. So and Nick, but not every Friday, we get to be literally inside where they make the bagels. You know why Manny Fernando? Because your place is so busy. We're Kosher bagel, Supreme Manny. Thanks for having us in this morning. You welcome any time. So 40 years, you're telling me this place? Yes. My dad opened this 40 years ago with a partner at the time, but now it's five years later he bought her out and he's been so long since I know you're helping Ron and you're doing it. That's right. Me and Fernando help him and we're working as hard as we can and you're the brother in law. So, Fernando, what's your favorite bagel to get here? Onion and salt? Maybe we just saw the onions come out of it. Yes. That's pretty awesome. Why do you think you've been in business for so long? I think it's the quality and I think it's the secret recipe. He says his chop. That's what my dad says. What is your dad said? That's amazing. And the way you treat customers and the way, you know, just make everybody feel like they're at home. When they come in here, we try to work as a family in here and look at it. I think all your customers too. I love it. I mean, this has been a revolving door since we walked in here. Now, we also want to say you were voted number one bagels in New Jersey by 94.3. The point we'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it. And what was the reasoning? They said that you could go to any bagel store around. But when you want a real good bagel, you gotta come to Springfield, New Jersey to Kosher Bagel Supreme. We are in Springfield New Jersey guys having the best bagels. Do you want to know? Is it ready yet? Is it queued up? Oh, you took them out? No, it's all good. We got the steamer go. We got the bagels there. This is really cool. Look at this perspective. We're hanging down to Springfield Lauren Dune. He's 12 New Jersey.

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News 12’s Lauren Due visited a deli, a hair salon and a dog groomer for this week's Main Street New Jersey. 

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