Big Y says no decision made on Ansonia store future

ANSONIA-While the signs outside the Big Y Supermarket downtown seek a tenant, the Massachusetts-based chain said no decision on that store’s future have been made.

“The landlord was preemptive in putting this out,” Claire D’Amoro-Daly, Big Y’s vice president of corporate communications, said Monday. “He jumped the gun. We have made no decision and are still weighing all options on that location.”

D’Amoro-Daly pointed out there are still three and a half years left on the store’s lease in the Ansona Plaza Shopping Center on 403 Main Street.

But no matter what happens, D’Amoro-Daly said with their new World Class Markets opening on Route 34 in Derby and the Boston Post Road in Milford “we don’t anticipate any job losses.”

All this came about Friday when both city officials and Alan Schwartz, whose Glen Equities owns the shopping center said a new tenant is being sought for the 65,000 square foot space.

Big Y has anchored that shopping center since it opened in 1996. The center also includes Bob’s, a clothing and footwear store and Marshal’s/Home Goods.

For the past two years Big Y has been renovating a former Walmart store on New Haven Avenue in Derby into a Big Y World Class Market. The company hopes to open that store in November.

The Ansonia store is about three and a half miles from the new...

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