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In 1918, a large brick schoolhouse was constructed on the site of the Joseph Brondie family farm, named the Goodell School. The school closed in 1971 and was demolished.<ref>''Images of America: Lincoln Park'', Arcadia Publishing, 2005.</ref>
 
In the late 1970's, the [[Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company]] built an A&P supermarket #601 on the Goodell School site. TheA&P store#601 was rebranded as a [[Farmer Jack]] #501 in 1993, 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. When theFarmer Jack store#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 several other previously shuttered locations, reopened as a [[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>
 
Food Basics #552 lasted in this location for barely more than a year, and was shuttered on June 26, 2005.<ref>[https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcd/Food_Basics_292977_7.pdf Letter by Food Basics to the Michigan Department of Career Development], April 26, 2005.</ref> It was quickly replaced with Food Mart, a [[SpartanNash|Spartan Stores]]-supplied store. Food Mart closed in March 2007 and was demolished starting on March 29, 2007.
 
[[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]] on Fort Street north of Southfield Road and [[CVS Pharmacy 8018]] in the [[Lincoln Park Plaza (Lincoln Park, Michigan)|Lincoln Park Plaza]].