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Original Grocery Tenant: none; supermarket previously planned Address: 99 E Broadway, Monticello, NY Opened:  n/a Closed:  n/a Later Tenants:  vacant Photographed:  February 3, 2021 Welcome to... not a grocery store! The Apollo Plaza just outside of Monticello, NY, was constructed in 1983, bringing around 200,000 square feet to eastern Monticello. It quickly declined for several reasons, and the final tenant moved out just 20 years later. Any number of proposals have been made over the years, and it's been sold repeatedly, but no real movement has happened. I thought the expansive parking lot and wide mall storefronts looked particularly eerie with a coating of snow over everything. I always like to see abandoned things, especially large ones like this, but it must be an eyesore for locals. Zoom in below and you can still see the APOLLO sign in the middle, along with a Van Heusen sign next to it. A few years after the mall closed, a local developer (whose family ow...

ALDI Opened:  before 2009 Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  121 Broadway, Monticello, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 Just outside of downtown Monticello is a roughly 18,000 square foot ALDI, located in what I believe to be half of a former supermarket. I suspect this was the original ShopRite in town, with the current store being built in the early 1980s. From Historic Aerials, though, we can tell this store isn't that old, having been built between 1966 and 1987. That means it isn't all that much older than the ShopRite, so maybe this was some other supermarket -- or maybe the ShopRite was built as a different store. There's something else in Monticello I wanted to take a look at before we leave -- but for once, it's not a grocery store! Check it out in a bonus post tomorrow on Grocery Archaeology .

Original Grocery Tenant: Great American Address: 396 Broadway, Monticello, NY Opened:  before 1980 Closed:  after 1980 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  February 3, 2021 Today's post is a very quick one, with a look at a 15,800 square foot former Great American supermarket in downtown Monticello. The setup, too, is a bit like a Grand Union with its angled parking spaces and downtown location, but I don't know whether this was ever a Grand Union. But in 1980, this was a Great American, a New York cooperative or chain of supermarkets. There's only one left -- up in Prattsville, roughly 50 miles north. Monticello has another supermarket we're going to check out tomorrow on The Market Report !

ShopRite of Liberty Owner: SRS Opened:  2001 under current ownership, between 1976 and 1983 previously Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  46 Thompson Sq, Monticello, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 With SRS-owned ShopRites closing in the Capital Region and Ellenville , I've been keeping an eye on the performance of other stores. This 54,000 square foot ShopRite in Monticello opened owned by Big V between 1976 and 1983, then during Big V's bankruptcy in 2000-2001 was transferred to SRS. This store has seen a distinct lack of updating over the years, and even its most recent renovation (probably around 2010) only the grand aisle was updated -- and that, only a little bit. I'm keeping an eye on this, for that reason. It's possible the store could be headed for closure, but it didn't seem that way to me. It's possible SRS is looking to replace the store with a new-build one nearby, or there's some other reason it hasn't...