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Construction Site With Stop-Work Order Will Not Be a CVS
Pharmacy is not planning a chain store for Bell Boulevard locale, but it remains unclear what is being built at former Lucky Bell Store site.
It turns out that a new business under construction where work was halted last week will not be a CVS Pharmacy.
Workers at the site of the property, located at 42-09 Bell Blvd. in the former Lucky Bell Store site, had said that the storefront would house a branch of the chain pharmacy.
But a CVS spokesman said that a drug store was not planned for the locale.
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The city placed a full stop-work order at the site on Nov. 13 after a DOB inspector found that work was being done in “an unsafe or dangerous manner,” according to a note attached to the construction wall.
The property’s owner could not be reached for comment.
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Bayside Business Improvement District Executive Director Lyle Sclair said he did not know what was planned for the vacant storefront and that the landlord had never been in contact.
A spokesman for state Sen. Tony Avella, D-Bayside, said the senator also did not know what was being constructed at the location, but that he would look into it following the recent stop-work order.
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