- The pharmacy that has anchored the south end of Main Street for a decade will be closing next month.
- The location will close May 20, according to management.
The pharmacy that has anchored the south end of Main Street for a decade will be closing next month.
The Rite Aid building, at 10 Main St., is also occupied by Mondo pizza on the ground floor. Walgreens, based in Deerfield, Illinois, announced the $4.4 billion purchase of 1,932 Rite Aid stores nationwide in October 2017, saying the changeover would be rolled out over the following year and a half.
Walgreens operates more than 13,200 stores worldwide.
A sign on the Main Street Middletown Rite Aid store said prescriptions will be transferred to the Walgreens pharmacy at 311 E. Main St. The location will close May 20, according to management.
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In 2007, the former home of The Middletown Press, at 2 Main St., was razed and replaced it with the facility.
The assessor’s office lists the building’s current owner as MK-Menlo Property Owner out of Harrisburg, Pa.
The facility, which occupies more than 14,000 square feet, replaced the former Brooks Pharmacy at the same location after that corporation purchased the longtime family-run Pelton’s Drug Store at 100 Main St. in 2006.
The former Portland Rite Aid at 227 Main St. is now a Walgreens, which has other nearby locations at 633 Washington St., Middletown; 25 E. High St., East Hampton; and 4 Hammerhead Place, Cromwell.
Date: May 02, 2019
Source: The Middletown Press