A Shop Rite grocery store will open at 750 Queen St. where a Shaw's supermarket was the anchor tenant in the Southington Plaza Shopping Center. The 60,000 s/f grocery store was leased by SuperValu as a Shaw's and closed approximately two years ago. Wakefern Food Corporation will open a Shop Rite grocery store in the space after completing renovations.
SuperValu negotiated a lease termination with the landlord, Southington/Route 10 Association Ltd. and Wakefern entered into a new lease with the property owner.
In the transaction, SuperValu was represented by Bob Bowden of the R. Calabrese Agency from Waterbury and Howard Goldfarb of Excess Space Retail Services in Lake Success, N.Y. The Proto Group of North Haven represented Wakefern Food Corporation, with Lisa Antoniewicz of Wakefern and attorney Richard Rendeiro of Kroll, McNamara, Evans & Delehanty, LLP. The landlord was represented by Bruce Fishman and Joe DeMaio and legal counsel was John Mellitz of Chase Enterprises.