2400 Fort Street (Lincoln Park, Michigan): Difference between revisions

| building_type = SchoolElementary school

| name = A&P #501 (19781977-1993)<br>Farmer Jack #501 (1993-2004)<br>Food Basics #552 (2004-2005)<br>Food Mart (2005-2007)

| start_date = 19781977

In 1918, a large brick schoolhouse was constructed on the site of the Joseph Brondie family farm, named the Goodell Elementary School. The school closed in 1971 and was demolished in 1974.<ref>''Images of America: Lincoln Park'', Arcadia Publishing, 2005.</ref> The property was vacant from then until 19781977.

In 1978mid-to-late 1977, theThe [[Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company]] openedbuilt [[A&P]] supermarket #501 on the Goodell School site, replacing a smaller store at [[2035 McKinley Street (Lincoln Park, Michigan)|2035 McKinley Street]]. A&P #501 was rebranded as [[Farmer Jack]] #501 on December 5, 1993, following a remodeling project, as A&P was in the process of rebranding all of their A&P-branded stores in the state of Michigan into the Farmer Jack brand.<ref>[https://freep.newspapers.com/image/97519744/ "Michigan Memo"], [[Detroit Free Press]], December 4, 1993.</ref> When Farmer Jack #501 was inspected sometime between January 1, 1996, and June 15, 1998, it received mainly negative rankings.<ref>[https://freep.newspapers.com/image/100205098/ "Behind the ratings"], [[Detroit Free Press]], August 26, 1998.</ref>

Farmer Jack #501 closed in mid-February 2004 along with 12 other area locations.<ref>[http://hpfolks.com/events/2004_events/010704/010704_freep_fj_closes.html "Farmer Jack will close 13 metro stores"], [[Detroit Free Press]], January 7, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://hpfolks.com/events/2004_events/010704/010704_fj_closes.html "Farmer Jack plans to shut 13 stores in Metro area"], [[The Detroit News]], January 7, 2004.</ref> This store, along with severalnine other previously shuttered locations, reopened as [[Food Basics (United States)|Food Basics]] store #552 on March 30, 2004.<ref>[https://www.thenewsherald.com/news/business/food-basics-opens-downriver/article_8c96fdd8-db6f-58f8-be1b-c835f0ab56ff.html "Food Basics opens Downriver"], [[The News-Herald (Southgate, Michigan)|The News-Herald]], April 7, 2004.</ref>

[[CVS Pharmacy 8131]] was built on the property in the summer of 2007. When it opened later that year, it consolidated two other CVS drugstores in the city of Lincoln Park--the former [[CVS Pharmacy 8131]] onat [[1716 Fort Street north(Lincoln ofPark, SouthfieldMichigan)|1716 RoadFort Street]] and [[CVS Pharmacy 8018]] in the [[Lincoln Park Plaza (Lincoln Park, Michigan)|Lincoln Park Plaza]].