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After lying vacant for several years – save for the annual pop-up store for Halloween – at least half of the old Drug Fair building on Easton Avenue will soon have new life. Or maybe a new “spirit,” is a better way to phrase it.

Emre Demirbay smiled as he bent over and plucked a ruby red tomato from one of many hanging from a row of plants. “That’s a good one,” he said to his wife, Demi, as he placed the tomato in the basket she was holding.

New Jersey’s first Panera Bread concept store emphasizing delivery, takeout and catering opened Aug. 12 in the Crossroads at Somerset center on Elizabeth Avenue. The new concept store, called “Panera To You,” is part of the St. Louis, Mo.-based company’s “Panera 2.0” initiative, which emphasizes the use of technology to ease the process of ordering and delivering food.

We recently sat down with Daniella Harris, owner of Anytime Fitness at 920 Hamilton St., to talk about Anytime’s unique outlook on personal training. Q: What’s your businesses’ philosophy? A: We’re solutions-focused. We focus in getting results for our clients. We do that primarily through guided training. So whether it be one-on-one personal training or small group or team training, …

Creative Backup Care Options has added Knowledge Universe, the leading national private provider of early childhood education and care, to its Backup Care provider network. CBCO provides backup care to mid-sized companies and seeks to expand the presence of Backup Care as a whole in the workplace.

It wasn’t officially open yet, but the new Hardee’s restaurant on Route 27 was celebrated June 12 with a ribbon cutting. Attending were township officials, representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and Hardee’s corporation, and the location’s franchisee, Bhupen Patel.

Changing the way in which mental health services are delivered is the goal behind a recently opened facility on Davidson Avenue. Anew Wellness, 270 Davidson Ave., opened its doors in December 2014 to offer treatments for adolescents and adults suffering from mental and behavioral issues, and also those whose problems are exacerbated by drug addiction.

Hundreds of job seekers descended upon The Imperia on Easton Avenue May 5 for a job fair. The fair, sponsored by state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) and the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce, was “phenomenal,” Danielsen said.

Anytime Fitness in the Franklin Court Shopping Plaza on Hamilton Street is celebrating its first anniversary throughout May by offering free outdoor exercise classes. Called “Free Workout Saturdays,” the classes, designed for people at every fitness level, will start at 10 a.m. in the plaza’s overflow parking lot.

A group of township Girl Scouts visited the Willow Creek Rehabilitation and Care Center April 18 to get hands-on lessons in physical and occupational therapies. The scouts – about 23 from various troops in the township – spent the day performing exercises and learning about the equipment used in different therapies.