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The Bedrin Organization

Monday, December 10, 2012

Update: Shopping Center Owner Unavailable to Meet With Citizens Due to Schedule

Jerry Bedrin of the Bedrin Organization has had to change his plans but says he can still talk by phone with citizens concerned about the Memorial Bend Publix closing Jan. 9.

Updated 6:43 a.m. 12/12/12: Patch received an e-mail from Jerry Bedrin of the Bedrin Organization, which owns the Memorial Bend Shopping Center, stating that due to meetings with several prospective tenants and county officials today it will be too "tight" to hold a formal gathering with citizens concerned about the Publix leaving the center next month. However, he wrote, he is "happy to speak w interested neighbors on my cell" which is 201-803-7113. Here is the original story: The owner of the Memorial Bend Shopping Center is coming to metro Atlanta this week and said he can meet at the end of the business day on Wednesday, Dec. 12, with citizens concerned about the Publix in the center closing. "If there’s a desire for people to meet …

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Replacing Memorial Bend Publix Could Take Up to a Year, Shopping Center Owner Says

The Bedrin Organization has been through Publix leaving one of its shopping centers before: Killian Hill in Lilburn, where a Burlington now operates. "These things can be turned around but it takes time and effort," Jerry Bedrin said.

It could take six months to a year to replace the Publix store that’s soon to close at Memorial Bend shopping center, said Jerry Bedrin, partner with the Glen Rock, N.J.-based company that owns the center on Memorial Drive. Publix is closing the store on Jan.9, at 10 p.m. Find out Publix's reason for leaving Memorial Bend here. Bedrin, of The Bedrin Organization, is on the hunt for another anchor tenant. Among those he's talked to so far are the owners of Food Depot, Little Giant, and the broker for the Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market (this was suggested by a Patch reader, and other readers also touted international farmers market-type stores). The problem is, those companies are involved in projects and can’t take on others right now, Bedrin …

CookieBanks

1:11 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

just left shopping there today it was bittersweet. one thing I feel good about is the cashier I had told me that they (Publix Corp) made sure there was a job for each and everyone before they deiced to close that location. No one is loosing work that awesome.   more ›

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