Rockland: Here's what's coming to the former Pathmark site

Robert Brum | rbrum@lohud.com

Show Caption Hide Caption Video: New supermarket coming to Clarkstown A new supermarket chain is coming to a long-vacant site along Route 59.

NANUET - A new Aldi supermarket will be coming into the long-vacant grocery site in Nanuet.

The new tenant will be renovating 22,000 square feet of the building formerly occupied by Pathmark in the Rockland Center at 43 E. Route 59, according to Royal Properties, the plaza's real estate broker.

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Clarkstown Town Supervisor George Hoehmann said Aldi had not yet come to the town for a permit for the renovation but said no other town approvals would be needed.

"We're absolutely delighted that there's going to another supermarket choice in Clarkstown," Hoehmann said Monday. "The old Pathmark had been a supermarket since I was in high school. The people in town will welcome a new supermarket service with open arms."

Aldi will be next door to TJ Maxx in a shopping center that also includes Sierra Trading Post, Kirkland’s Home Décor, HomeGoods, AC Moore and Party City.

The company chose the location because of its visibility, traffic counts of over 32,000 cars per day and the strong retail co-tenancy at the shopping center, according to David Landes, principal of Royal Properties.

It will be the second Rockland County location for the discount chain, which has a supermarket on Liberty Drive (Route 202) in Stony Point.

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The Nanuet location's nearest competitors are Stop & Shop on Middletown Road and Fairway in The Shops at Nanuet.

The Aldi chain opened its first store in 1961 in Germany; its first U.S. location opened in Iowa in 1976.

Clarkstown has been in the midst of a supermarket shakeup in the past few years. A Foodtown opened in 2016 at the site of a former A&P in Valley Cottage.

A short-lived Met Fresh closed at the Hub in Central Nyack in 2017.

Hoehmann said there have been numerous inquiries about the Central Nyack site from a range of possible retail tenants.