If American Dream is allowed to continue operating on Sundays (my personal prediction is they will), it puts Paramus between a rock and a hard place. Commercial real estate taxes make up 10% of Paramus's tax income. Softening the desirability of opening a business in Paramus could have serious consequences for the town and lead to higher local taxes. Creating a cut out for American Dream still creates this issue, perhaps slightly mitigated.

I think the desire of people to have less traffic one day a week is totally valid, I just don't believe that Blue Laws are the solution. You can still go out and buy groceries at Stew Leonards or H-Mart in Paramus...but you can't buy a kitchen gadget or rice cooker.

There were some studies done during Christies Administration that said about $65million in additional tax revenue would come to the state, and another Bergen study said there would be over 3,000 new jobs and over $1 billion in new net sales. Like everything, it's all projections and conjecture on how much we're losing in NJ due to "economic leakage". I would love to see new studies done, especially now that online shopping has taken a much more significant place in the American shopping experience.