Sorry if this has been discussed, but used search and didn't find it.  Was home this weekend and noticed that CVS at corner of Chrisler Ave is still not open...what's the scoop?

I heard that is was NOT going to open any time soon.

According to the store manager on Hamburg Street Thursday night, they won't be opening till December 09.

Seems like a helluva waste - the store was already merchandised, products are on the shelf

some screw up in the leases or something. ya think they would have hired a lawyer to look at that before they built it!

Freakin' DORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what lawyers.....the ambulance chasers or the friends of the 'city'......

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SCHENECTADY
Opening of new CVS delayed until 2010
Other stores will stay open due to lease agreements
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

    Don’t expect to see the brand new CVS Pharmacy on Chrisler Avenue open anytime soon.
    After more than two years of planning, the drug store chain will keep the new store closed until next year. Company spokeswoman Joanne Dwyer would only say that the company has no plans to open the store before early 2010.
    “We don’t usually comment on internal decisions regarding when our stores will be opening,” she said Tuesday.
    The comment contrasts with the appearance of the store, which has shopping carts in its front vestibule. Racks of white CVS bags are in place near the store’s drive-through window, and advertisements are already mounted in some areas.
    The new store was constructed on the site of the former Broderick-Fuller-Nekola Post 1005, the last American Legion post in Schenectady. It was active at the bustling intersection for more than 50 years, but the Legion decided to sell it as membership dwindled.
    CVS spent more than $1.37 million for the Legion property and a neighboring parcel in March 2007.
    The company had initially indicated that it would close locations at the Hannaford Plaza off Altamont Avenue and on Hamburg Street in Rotterdam.
    However, the company has leases at both locations that extend through this year. Steven Powers, the vice president of Nigro Companies, said CVS will continue at Hannaford Plaza for another year.
    “They understand there’s a lease in place,” he said.
    Likewise, a worker at the CVS on Hamburg Street said the company has plans to keep the location open through the year and possibly into next year. The property is owned by Rotterdam Associates, a subsidiary of the Albany-based Gordon Companies.
    Dwyer declined to discuss the terms of the company’s lease at either property.
    The Chrisler Avenue property is the second in the area that CVS purchased recently; it also bought a dilapidated mixed-use building on the corner of Guilderland Avenue and Curry Road in Rotterdam.
    CVS hasn’t indicated its intentions to develop the property but took preliminary steps to demolish the building. Rotterdam offi cials have indicated that the quarter-acre property is too small for the size of the pharmacy CVS wants to build, and the company has been unable to purchase adjacent land.

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I just can't imagine what the $ value of the inventory is in this store.  It's been sitting on the shelves for months already - and will for another 10 months. Staggering.

Betcha someone's losing their job over this

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

some screw up in the leases or something. ya think they would have hired a lawyer to look at that before they built it!

Ayup. Some desk jockey at corporate blindly signed a 1 year extension on the leases for Hamburg St and the Hannaford Plaza, which were set to expire about now.  Store was supposed to open last December, with the other two closing in January.  Not happening until next year now.

THIS HERE is why we have to stop the drug stores from doing what they are doing and that is opening up every where and cutting the trees and then having the ugly buildings and further - more they refuse to pay the pre vailing wages that the workers desire and NEED FOR FEEDING THE FAMILIES Every where you turn ANOTHER DRUG STORE

Thank you Judy D. and Sue "The" Savage (running for Assembly!)and Karen for opening up all these needed drug stores! Under your leadership, we have the highest taxes in Upstate New York! We have a Metrograft that adds additional sales tax burden on the poor sheeple. But it's all good! Nobody should be "negative".

     So the Big Hose has cost $3 million dollars, it is worth it to live here! So what if our Nursing Home is the worst in the State? Nobody knows from nuthin. Everywhere you turn another stupido Krat.

Quoted from MobileTerminal

Betcha someone's losing their job over this

Ya think????? Either that or a promotion. That's the direction it appears these nutsy corps are heading. The bigger the failure...the bigger promotion and increase in pay they get!!!

yeah maybe they will now get some stimulus money for the screw up

Quoted from benny salami

Thank you Judy D. and Sue "The" Savage (running for Assembly!)and Karen for opening up all these needed drug stores! Under your leadership, we have the highest taxes in Upstate New York! We have a Metrograft that adds additional sales tax burden on the poor sheeple. But it's all good! Nobody should be "negative".

     So the Big Hose has cost $3 million dollars, it is worth it to live here! So what if our Nursing Home is the worst in the State? Nobody knows from nuthin. Everywhere you turn another stupido Krat.

Ya ok so when the republicans were in charged they did a great job

They were just as incompetent but way less corrupt. I think you should all keep it to one party that way you can keep blaming a party who hasn't really had power in the city for 30 years for the most part. When the place goes bankrupt, drop us all a line here and ask why.

Quoted from B GAGE

Ya ok so when the republicans were in charged they did a great job

When the GOP was in "charged" the County sales tax was 4%-not 8.25. People actually flocked to this County to buy things. Now we run to Albany of Saratoga County. The GOP didn't raise property taxes 10% COUNTYWIDE in a recession. They also didn't run record deficits. But don't let the facts get in the way of your preconceived notions. Take another look at Gillen's Gulch.