Following the announcement last week that four Stop & Shop supermarkets will be closing on Long Island, at least one shopping center has landed a replacement tenant.
Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace will take over the 53,000-square-foot space that Stop & Shop will be vacating at the Wheatley Plaza Shopping Center in Greenvale.
The Wheatley Plaza store will be the Melville-based chain’s eighth on Long Island and 12th overall. Family-owned Uncle Giuseppe’s, which started with a 13,689-square-foot store in East Meadow in 1998, also has supermarkets in Melville, North Babylon, Massapequa, Smithtown, Port Jefferson Station, Port Washington, Yorktown Heights, Ramsey, N.J., Tinton Falls, N.J. and Morris Plains, N.J.
Stop & Shop will be closing 32 underperforming stores in five states, including four on Long Island, the company announced Friday.
Besides the Wheatley Plaza store, the other Long Island stores to close on or before Nov. 2 include 294 Middle Country Road in Coram, 132 Fulton Ave. in Hempstead, and 2525 Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow.
The other closings include three other Stop & Shop stores in New York, five stores in Connecticut, eight in Massachusetts, 10 in New Jersey, and two in Rhode Island.
The company said in a statement that the closings are “the next steps in its plans to position the company for growth.” Stop & Shop will still have more than 350 stores in its five-state footprint and employees will be offered other positions within the company.
Uncle Giuseppe’s will become the new grocery anchor at the 113,000-square-foot Wheatley Plaza, which opened in 1980 and is owned by Manhasset-based Castagna Realty Company. Castagna also owns the Americana Manhasset retail complex.
The lease with Uncle Giuseppe’s was a direct deal between tenant and ownership, according to Deirdre Costa Major, president of the Retail Division and senior vice president at Castagna.
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