$18M renovation starts at Peekskill retail center

An $18 million renovation highlighted by a new supermarket and a rebuilt chain pharmacy are in store for the Beach Shopping Center in Peekskill as the retail complex tries to regain the shoppers it lost in recent years to other shopping places along Route 6.

Beach owner-manager DLC Management

The new CVS will replace a 9,600-square-foot store the chain now operates at Beach. Stop & Shop replaces a Grand Union store that closed with the rest of that supermarket chain in March 2001. Stop & Shop never occupied that space, opting instead to seek approvals for a new store.

Adam Ifshin, president of DLC, said Stop & Shop and CVS are both set to open next year. Those stores may soon be joined by other retailers now in talks for three retail spaces at Beach. The largest of these is the 30,000-square-foot comer space that has been vacant since Dills Best closed its Peekskill store. The regional home improvement retailer pulled out a few years back just as The Home Depot opened 2 miles east at Cortlandt Town Center.