A movie theater, but alas, money is a very real object and local theaters don't make enough of it to pay the rent.

another irish bar in Malden with bad food

A complainatorium. Oh wait, we already have one!

I would open a Wallmart. That way people will not be held hostage to Stop n Shop prices. Would have a full line of Electronics,Clothing,Food all the family needs.

Trader Joe's. Sushi bar. Dim Sum restaurant. Market Basket. Public accounting firm. Consignment clothing shop. Pet store. AAA. Reopen Guadalajara PLEASE. Cuban restaurant (oh wait one is already opening on Exchange). H Mart.

actually a good BBQ place or a upscale pizza, wood fired with a full bar. Kinda like flatbread pizza in Haverhill or Angelinas coal fired ob route 1

A "$5 store" to sell slightly better quality imported merchandise than the current multitude of dollar stores... or a Food Truck without the wheels drive-thru store.

Mike G
Your tactics are straight from the Alinsky playbook. You attempt to discredit anyone with an opposing view by isolating them with false claims of complaining and to a harsher degree by labeling them racist!
I've lived in Malden for 36 years and have never seen this much violence in such a short period of time, and frankly typing Mike, people are concerned not complaining.
In the grand scheme of things, yes crime is down overall, but the residents of Malden have a stake in the game.
Instead of acting like the digital gulag with an intellectual egghead of an accomplice, enough of being the resident WONK !!

OH GEEEZE another P'N contest. Here we go again..lol Forget about this topic I think we need a whippin Post ! Haaaaaa Yes a state of the art wooden whipping post so we can get flogged for being bad.

I've seen good bloggers on this site get ganged-up on by a pack of angry academia and viscously smeared !

Another country heard from, thanks Jay.

Wow Mike G, your intellectual prowess is amazing (burp).. NOT !!

WHOA put on your laughing hats, people, Jay, you're killin me man

Anything but another dockside

People seem to want another massage parlor

A medical marihuana clinic with one dollar bong store...... I miss the headlines store that used to be in Malden square

We could use a good village blacksmith

A micro brewery.. I hear Everett has two right of route 99. A micro brewery with a restaurant would be even better

A good steakhouse. Like Frank's in Cambridge would be great.

Everett has MetroRock and SkyZone in large converted industrial buildings. I would like to see something like this in Malden. Maybe a large industrial building converted into the craziest paintballing on the North Shore.

Microbrewery and steakhouse would also be great -- agreed.

I may put a business plan of my own into action once City Hall comes down. No way I'm starting anything in the Square without more traffic throughput.

I'd love a place to get a good sandwich and decent cup of coffee. NOT a new sub or pizza shop or Dunks--but a GOOD deli sandwich and some high quality coffee--some place that's also open on weekends (unlike Cornucopia!)

A place sort of like the Busy Bee in Melrose, with a quality menu, changing specials, good bakery selection, and pleasant, clean, sunny atmosphere, etc.

I'd love to see any/all of the following: an adult education center like the Cambridge/Boston Centers for Adult Education, more women's clothing stores, Trader Joe's, Market Basket, a Healthworks or Planet Fitness (one closer to the square), Panera, Morgie's, IHOP, and perhaps a cafeteria/buffet style restaurant. I'd also love to see the post office move from Mountain Ave to a space closer to the square; Malden's the only city in which I've lived where the post office was not in the city center.

Nadine, I'm with you on Trader Joe's, and Market Basket....wouldn't it be a laugher if Market Basket moved into the old Mal's Supermarket building, right across from the Stop & Shop. When Market Basket opened their flagship store three years ago in Chelsea, they immediatley started clean Stop & Shop's clock :)

We had a similar discussion months back about when the Converse Restaurant (the old Chapelle's) closed in the Sq, the topic was what we would like to see in it's place. I think Chris Caesar actually agreed with me about a Starbucks. But we were all in agreement that nothing with a brand name will work unless a huge investment in the downtown takes place!

How about a good old fashion country bar with some space for line dancing. Get your dancing boots ready.

@Paul Surette excuse me I dont suffer any beatings here. You take your posts too seriously. Computeritis. Try soaking your head in Olive oil before inserting head in butt. It wont pop so loud when you take it out. Im told I have a great personality,a good sence of humor,and fun to be with. Thats outside the Computer Box. So Mr Surette you or anyone else does not bother me because your all lil names on a page and are not real to me. Im not here to impress only when Im outside I dress to Impress. If you like I can talk to you live on Skype ..Ok enough of the bashing not my style.

OK I know what would be awesome other than Wallyworld. An imported cheese shop. Yes cheeses from all over the world. That would be awesome and it would draw in people from all over.

Mr. Mokal, I am trully disturbed by your unhealthy infatuation ( as well as your flatulance) with body parts. What does olive oil and rear ends have to do with the topic of small business? Damn it , where is that nurse?

R

Dear Mr. Senior Citizen, it's spelled 'losers'. And I have to apologize, Mr. Mokal, as I should be more sympathetic towards your dementia. :)