"Heart Hoboken" Campaign Hopes To Stir Local Business
Is it too late for an ad campaign to save the holidays for Hoboken businesses?
If you ask Tim Cochrane how business is going at his hot dog joint The WindMill on Hudson Street, he's got one word for it: "horrible!" Cochrane and his business partner Roger Corrado opened the Hoboken location of the Jersey shore franchise in June. Just a stone's throw from the PATH station and surrounded by several popular bars, Cochrane says they were starting to build up a good business. "We're a late night place. Two a.m., you couldn't get in the door," he said. "Now, there's nobody." Since the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy knocked out PATH service from Hoboken, Cochrane says business is down 60 percent. He also had to cut his staff to just three employees, putting several local college students out of a job. In the meantime, …
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Outofcontrol
5:26 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Small businesses need to look at the business climate before they agree to pay the ridiculous rents that they are paying in this town. They shouldn't expect the consumer to carry the cost of what is ultimately a bad business decision. Small businesses need to stop paying rents that cannot be sustained in a place like Hoboken. You can try to blame Sandy or the recession or whatever other excuses … more ›