REHOBOTH BEACH 1960
TWO LARGE SHOPPING CENTERS
TO BE BUILT
Rehoboth Beach will soon
have two large shopping centers which officials hope will
relieve the downtown
Rehoboth parking problem.
One, the A & P
Supermarket, is already under construction off the Dewey Beach Cut
Off,
just beyond the High
School
The second proposal was
just presented to the Commissioners last Friday by Howard
Thompson, representing a
Washington, D. C. firm, Walker & Dunlop, operators of the
eastern Safeway
Supermarkets Corporation. This group would like to lease the
Shaw
Trailer Park on the canal
at the entrance of Rehoboth to build and operate a supermarket
with ample parking for
shoppers.
Daniel Layton, Jr., town
solicitor, has been instructed to see if Rehoboth has legal
rights
to lease the Benjamin Shaw
property, some four acres,
Howard Thompson has told
the commissioner that Safeway will want a long term lease to
build a shopping center of
brick buildings costing $400.000.
The A & P Supermarket
on the heavy traveled route 14, Bay Road, is represented by
Anderson & Stokes,
of Rehoboth Beach. A syndicate has purchase 8.5 acres of
the
lands of Isador Johnson.
The John L. Briggs, Company is general contractor with the
architect, Alan Wood
Fraser of Berlin, Maryland. The center will have two acres for
parking. A June 13,
1960 opening is planned.
The closest existing
supermarket to Rehoboth is an Acme Market, two miles north on
Rehoboth Highway at Midway.
Abstract: Salisbury Daily
Times, Wednesday, 30 January, 1960
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