A CVS is coming to downtown by the end of the year.
The City Plan Commission on Wednesday at its regularly monthly meeting unanimously approved with conditions a site plan that will put an outpost of the national chain pharmacy into the empty storefront at 123 Church St.
The site is part of the historic 1843 brick, four-story building at the corner of Church and Chapel streets. The site is about 11,934 square feet and would be the third national pharmacy chain operating in downtown. Rite-Aid has a store nearby on Church Street, and Walgreens operates stores at Temple and York Streets.
The building formerly housed a Santander Bank branch.
Applicant Chris Vigilante of 123 Church Street Associates LLC told commissioners Wednesday night that there were no plans to make any changes to the facade of the building except to add some signage.
The ground floor space will begin renovations next month and be complete before the end of the year, according to a City Plan staff report. There will be no changes to the three floors above the store. Store deliveries will be done between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., or after 6 p.m.
Conditions imposed by City Plan include submitting “any traffic lane/sidewalk closures, temporary walkways, detours, signage, haul routes to and from the site, and construction worker parking plan.”
Just as you have Gentrification Vampires.You have Corporate Vampires.Check out the History Of CVS.
Corporate middlemen accused of pushing out independent pharmacies.
Earlier this year, five consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission to break up the $27 billion merger between the CVS drug store chain and Caremark, one of the big pharmacy benefit manager companies. When the middleman and the retailer are all the same company, the groups argued, the consumer gets hurt. And in its most recent Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, CVS-Caremark acknowledged that several state attorneys general were looking into possible anti-competitive practices by the farm.
It's a Drugstore War; Big Chains Are Rapidly Expanding In Haven of Independent Pharmacies.
''We're drowning in drugstores,'' said Irene Prince, who works in retail sales and lives on West 96th Street, in a neighborhood where the blue-and-red Duane Reade sign can be spotted every few blocks. ''This is insane!''
Not just in New York, but All across the country, Drugstore chains are expanding, often swallowing up independent pharmacies or tiny chains.
Both Gentrification Vampires.and Corporate Vampires Go hand and hand.
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My bad.Look at West Haven who will not being using eminent domain.Take Bets.Down the road New haven will be using eminent domain.
Eminent domain likely in West Haven outlet mall battle
The city is in the process of initiating eminent domain proceedings on the few remaining properties in The Haven South project area," O'Brien said in a written statement Wednesday.
http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20160824/eminent-domain-likely-in-west-haven-outlet-mall-battle