The former Rite Aid at Five Points in New Philadelphia will become a Bellstores. County records show the Campbell Oil Company purchased the property at 705 West High Avenue for $1.95 million earlier this month.
Mayor Joel Day this week announced the company’s intention to build a convenience store and gas station.
“The sale was possible thanks to this city’s council decision to update business zoning along West High Avenue’s corridor to allow such business development.”
The former drug store is 43,000 square feet on 1.6 acres. Day says it has been vacant since 2024.
“The next steps will be a review of the Bellstores site plan by the city’s planning commission. We’ll have that I would expect on the agenda for next month.”
Meanwhile, another former Rite Aid in Tuscarawas County could become an auto parts store. Uhrichsville Mayor Jim Zucal says that’s the plan for the former drug store at 735 North Water Street.
“If everything works as it should, the former Rite Aid building is being entertained as a new O’Reilly’s Auto Parts store. That could possibly be, if all that comes through the permitting process, an O’Reilly’s Auto Parts.”
Rite Aid permanently closed all its stores in 2025 after filing for bankruptcy.
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