Bergen County is home of the ‘big 07652’ (aka, Paramus) where you’ll find the Westfield Garden State Plaza – a mall attracting nineteen million shoppers per year and the soon-to-open American Dream – a 3.2 million s/f entertainment destination at the Meadowlands expected to attract 40 million visitors annually. Bergen is also where Oreo cookies are manufactured daily – 10,000 per minute in fact - along Yoo-hoo chocolate milk to wash them down. But it’s more than the success of the shopping and sugar sectors that make Bergen County an ideal location for corporations, retailers, manufacturers and, well, shoppers. It’s our Aaa bond rating, tax base of nearly $170 billion, 508k+ skilled workers, 50k+ businesses, $99,701 average household income and proximity to New York City.
By Joanne Cimiluca