Two New Jersey-based retailers have signed leases at two New Rochelle locations vacated in the last year by national retail companies.
The first Ashley Furniture Homestore in Westchester County will open after Labor Day at 80 Nardozzi Place, said Patricia Simone, director of leasing at Simone Development Corp. in New Rochelle, the building landlord. The retailer, an independently owned franchise of Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. in Arcadia, Wis., signed a 10-year lease for 30,000 square feet of space in the 44,000-square-foot building.
Linens ”™n Things, a retail victim of the recession and credit crisis, left the standalone building off Interstate 95 in late December in the company”™s liquidation. Simone said the landlord is working with a potential tenant for the remaining 14,000 square feet.
The furniture franchise owner, Eugene M. Chrinian, operates three Ashley Furniture stores in New Jersey.
At the former Home Depot Expo Design Center building at 8 Joyce Road, ShopRite plans to open a grocery store in 2010 that will bring about 300 jobs to New Rochelle, ShopRite spokeswoman Jeannette Castaneda said.
The independently owned supermarket, the seventh ShopRite store in Westchester County, will occupy about 70,000 square feet of the vacated 104,000-square-foot building. The previous tenant was one of 34 Expo Design stores nationwide closed by Home Depot Inc.
ShopRite supermarkets are members of Wakefern Food Corp., a regional retailer-owned cooperative based in Elizabeth, N.J.
