So when Sage Diner in Mount Laurel closed after Gus and Stella Roustas filed for bankruptcy in 2017, I'm sure a lot of regulars were sad. The building has sat empty ever since. It was purchased in April 2019 by Giannakaris Enterprises and if the plan ever was to renovate and reopen as a new diner you can bet a pandemic hitting less than a year later would have put that on a back burner.
So all these years later having sat vacant and unused the building that was Sage Diner off 73 might be coming back to life. But not as a diner. Not as a condo, either.
Try a marijuana dispensary.
A Cherry Hill company, NJ Green Care LLC, is making a pitch in an application in front of Mount Laurel's Planning Board to turn the old diner into a marijuana dispensary. The 5,700-square-foot building's exterior would remain virtually unchanged as would its parking lot.