Hobby Lobby Slated to Fill Empty Pathmark

Get your glue guns ready, crafters, Hobby Lobby is on its way to Marlboro Township.

According to zoning and code enforcer Sarah Paris, craft and DIY store Hobby Lobby is currently working to fill the entire empty Pathmark on Route 9 South.

A February, 2012 Patch article asked readers what they'd like to see in the empty location, and many said Trader Joe's was their first choice.

Whole Foods is set to open in Marlboro sometimes in 2013, but its location on an empty lot rather than in the once empty Pathmark across the street was chosen through a set of standards the company keeps when choosing new locations.

And even then, meeting those standards doesn’t necessarily mean the companies will come.

Find out how stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods choose their locations.

An opening date for Hobby Lobby has not yet been announced.

Its website lists job opportunities for the Marlboro store, though an opening date for Hobby Lobby has not yet been announced on its corporate website. Store managers and co-managers must apply online. 

The company does not take online applications for hourly positions, so once the store is open applicants must make their interest known in person at Marlboro. Hourly positons include: cashier, stocker, office manager, department head and floral designer. 

Independent class instructors are encouraged to apply in person once the store is open. Hobby Lobby classes include jewelry making, knitting, floral design, papercrafting, and more.

Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts chain controlled by billionaire David Green and family in Oklahoma City with 13,000 employees and 525 big-box stores in the United States as of March, 2013. It is the third location to open in New Jersey. The other two stores are in South Plainfield and Millville. Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 9am to 8pm and they are closed on Sunday, according to their corporate website.

The company also runs Mardel, a large chain of Christian bookstores. The company is challenging a requirement in President Barack Obama's revised healthcare legislation that some companies must give insurance coverage for contraception drugs and devices.  In December, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused to block the mandate. The company was told it could continue its challenge in lower courts.