“We didn’t have a building permit yet,” acknowledged Doleh. “The work had started without getting all the proper permits, so there is a stop work order issued at the moment until we can obtain all the building permits that are required,” said a woman who answered the phone on May 31.

One of the supermarkets is located on Staten Island, two others are in Queens, and his sons is in Brooklyn, added Doleh.Īccording to Marlboro Township Construction Department, some permits necessary to do certain work were obtained, but contractors went beyond that scope and had to be stopped. Though each of his Key Foods is set up under a different corporation, the name of the one coming in Marlboro is “Emporium Meat Corp,” he said.

“Key Foods bought the name,” and intellectual property rights, he added. “We had them before Key Foods acquired the Food Emporium banner (from A&P at the bankruptcy auction), he said, explaining that he’s been a member of the Staten Island, New York-based Key Food Stores Co-operative since 2009. Owner, Joe Doleh’s, modern 31,250 square foot new supermarket in the Marlboro Shopping Center marks Monmouth County’s first Food Emporium, and it’s also his first in the Garden State, said the Colts Neck resident.īut Doleh already operates three supermarkets in New York that trade under the Key Foods Marketplace banner, while his son owns a fourth, he said. Marlboro - The Food Emporium being built-out on Route 520- and 79 that’s set to replace the A&P could still open by the end of October despite a “Stop Construction” order issued by the township on May 15, according to its owner.

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