More than 70 Rite Aid pharmacies have shuttered or are preparing to close across the Pittsburgh area as the company undergoes bankruptcy and restructuring.
Customers’ prescriptions have been transferred to other pharmacies, but the empty stores will leave a large group of properties — in prime commercial locations across Western Pennsylvania — without tenants.
The former Rite Aid on Greensburg’s East Pittsburgh Street is positioned in the middle of the city’s downtown commercial area. A Penn Hills Rite Aid is just a few hundred feet from one of the town’s busiest intersections, Frankstown and Saltsburg roads…