The A&P location at 87 Main St. in Hastings-on-Hudson will close its doors at 10:30 p.m. today, village officials said.
Officials estimated the store could be closed anywhere from several weeks to several months. The lease for the store was successfully won in a bid in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains by Queens-based LLC Shanghai Enterprises. The store is owned by a landlord unaffiliated with A&P.
In an announcement, village officials said Shanghai Enterprises bought the lease to either sell or sublease the store. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert D. Drain recently approved the bid for the lease.
“We made it clear to him that our location is zoned for a supermarket and that it’s crucial that this location remains a full-scale supermarket,” village officials wrote in the web announcement. “We discussed potentially interested parties and, for the moment, the ball is in his court. We will stay in a dialogue and keep you appraised of developments as they occur.”
The nearest major supermarket is a Stop & Shop store roughly two miles away at 390 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry.
A&P’s parent company, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July and announced it would close its 25 Westchester A&P and Pathmark supermarket locations by Nov. 26.
Other former A&P stores in Westchester were acquired by Massachusetts-based The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC; Pennsylvania-based Acme Markets Inc.; Staten Island-based Key Food Stores Co-operative Inc.; CVS Pharmacy; Mount Vernon-based PSK Supermarkets Inc.; and CW A&P Mamaroneck LLC.
Stop & Shop plans to close the A&P store at 195 N. Bedford Ave. in Mount Kisco on Friday and reopen it as a Stop & Shop store following renovations on Nov. 19.
