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A pharmacy and drive-through is expected to be complete at 22nd Avenue N and 34th Street by October.
By TODD WRIGHT
© St. Petersburg Times, published June 10, 2001
ST. PETERSBURG -- CVS Pharmacy is building a store at the northwest corner of 22nd Avenue N and 34th Street.
Currently a fenced-off dirt lot construction site, the pharmacy and drive-through is expected to be complete by October. Designs were approved last December for the 10,900-square-foot project.
CVS, the nation's second-largest drugstore, began preparing for a move into Pinellas a few years ago. In addition to the 34th Street site, CVS is putting up a store on Fourth Street N on the spot where Watson's Foodtown stood until six weeks ago. That store should be ready in a few months.
And in Pinellas Park, a CVS pharmacy is scheduled on the northwest corner of Park and Belcher, where an Amoco gas station is.
CVS will compete with the two locally dominant chains -- Walgreen Co. and Largo-based Eckerd Corp.
Based in Woonsocket, R.I., CVS has about 4,100 stores in 25 states and Washington, D.C., according to the company's Web site. The first CVS opened in Lowell, Mass., in 1963 under the name "Consumer Value Store."
The CVS on 34th Street replaces the Sunshine Amoco.