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Recently secured zoning approvals from the Village of Lake Grove have cleared the way for the development of Long Island’s first Wegmans supermarket.
Attorney Keith Brown, partner with Brown Altman & DiLeo, along with Key Civil Engineering and Stonefield Engineer & Design combined their efforts to secure subdivision approval, special-use permits, setback and parking variances and site-plan approval for the project to build a new 100,000-square-foot Wegmans on 8.5 acres at the DSW Plaza shopping center on Middle Country Road in Lake Grove.
Wegmans is in contract to buy the development site from Prestige Properties & Development, which owns the 28-acre DSW Plaza. Wegmans plans to begin construction of the new supermarket this spring, once the land sale closes.
“We want to thank Mayor Scottaline and the Village of Lake Grove staff for helping in bringing what we hope is the first of many Wegmans stores to Long Island,” Brown said in a written statement. “This flagship store will be a beautiful great addition to the village. We are very pleased to have been a part of such a great project to replace a supermarket in this market in Lake Grove to meet the pent-up demand.”
Sam Shalem, chairman and CEO of Prestige Properties & Development, said his company is proud that Wegmans chose DSW Plaza for the chain’s first location on Long Island.
“Wegmans is a first-class asset and will be an incredible addition to Lake Grove and the surrounding communities,” Shalem said in the statement. “We look forward to our continued partnership with Wegmans, Mayor Scottaline and the Village of Lake Grove on this landmark location.”
Scottaline said the village is excited that Wegmans is coming to Lake Grove.
“I am pleased with the professional way that they have presented all of their paperwork and the correspondence we have had with them,” the mayor said in the statement. Wegmans did extensive research about where they would locate on the Island, and we are so proud that they chose Lake Grove. We have been in contact with them for some time now and we are so glad that it worked out as it has.”
Founded in 1916 as the Rochester Fruit & Vegetable Company by brothers John and Walter Wegman, the business has evolved as a regional supermarket chain called Wegmans Food Markets. The chain has more than 52,000 employees and 109 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Delaware and North Carolina.
The company reported 2021 revenue of $11.2 billion.
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