A Wine Bar!! not a full service restaurant, but a place that focuses on Wine & Cheese & Charcuterie & creative, inventive, snacks & small plates! Wine classes & tastings. A fun & funky environment, tastefully decorated, 1st class service provided by passionate, dedicated industry veterans & professionals.
A place that would hire me! :)

That would never last

A place to renew ID's like Mass ID's and to renew MBTA pass ID's and also get new ones. So people do not have to travel to Boston or to the DMV to get ID'S.
Since we are becoming a country where you have to show ID(or Papers to do anything like voting) there should be a place to get them where you do not have to travel far. especially for the Disabled and Elderly. Not everyone drives or has excess to get to these places.

A Trader Joe's would be perfect. The stores have small footprints and there is space there for parking.

A Trader Joe's would be great but I think the space is too small.
More importantly what about doing something with the vacant lot across the street where there use to be a gas station?

I like the Trader Joe's idea, would save me a trip up rt 114

@Antoine. it was a Texaco gas station! this guy who used to work at Hess told me something a year or 2 ago. he told me the Rockett family who owns Pickering Wharf & The Waterfront Hotel wanted to put a smaller, boutique hotel & steakhouse in the spot. and, about 5 or 6 years ago, i went to a neighborhood association meeting where a developer showed plans to put a building & fill it up with condos & retail on the 1st level.

The owner wants $33 a square foot. It's double anywhere else. Good luck to anyone willing to spend that insane amount. Hence the unit being vacant for over a year.

i would like to see a peoples united bank branch office there. it would be a heck of alot more coveinient than going to crosbys plaza.

No on has rented it. We looked at it 15 months ago with the owner, once he sai he would not negotiate on the rent we walked

he probably gets a tax deduction from the lost revenue. having a tenant might not be worth it.

John, I get more info from Salem finances from you than I do from anywhere else. I enjoy the info.

a branch of the New England Aquarium or another Dunkin's!

the owner of the property knows he has prime derby st. frontage and wants the big bucks for it. anthing that goes in there has to be able to survive the slow winter months. my wish would be my bank to have a downtown location instead of treking all the way to crosbys plaza.

That lot across the street would make an outstanding dining/rest area, at the very least. Maybe the city could replant the Trees they are planning to yank out over on Essex pedestrian walkway and Japanese garden over here, level the lot with gravel, go down to Ocean State Job Lot and get a bunch of tables and umbrella stands on clearance, a few trash barrels and voila! Instant rest area. If a lot is going to sit unkempt like that, in the hub of Salem, then the city should be able to use that land until Fiesta Shows comes infor two weeks in October. IMHO that is the main reason that lot is still vacant. Or the owners should it themselves.
As for that place next to Cilantro, there's already a million restaurants, boutiques, etc... Really good places that are not being patronized nearly enough. But Either or a raw bar or strictly sushi bar would be a very nice addition to that area.

I wish we could have a really good barbeque place in Salem, like Jake's Q in Chelsea, or Red Bones in Somerville.

In my opinion, that location is not prime at all. Your not on the waterfront, your not downtown, your stuck in the middle. Very hard location. I see this being vacant for another year or two at the current asking price. The lot across the street........I could do wonders with!

I wonder if Custom House Rotisserie would be better off in this spot. I think a lot of people still don't know they exist. Too bad, too.

I'll say it time and time again, Salem needs a Middle Eastern restaurant. If a Polish restaurant can thrive so can a Middle Eastern one.

I love the idea of a wine bar! Now that Greenland is "remodeling" it would be nice to have a new space with wine and small plates...that hopefully won't sell out.

I would love to see a Trader Joe's downtown.

How about a real deli, either Italian or Jewish!

Ditto the deli!