At 7:30 on the morning of Wednesday, September 9, the doors opened at 21 Glenville Street. A ribbon-cutting followed at 10:30. The building had held the Glenville Stop & Shop. Now it is DeCicco & Sons, a family grocer with eleven markets in Westchester and Putnam counties. This is the company's first store in Connecticut and its first outside New York.
Most coverage treated the opening as the start of a new chapter for Glenville. The timeline tells a different story. The grocery store came last. The plaza's restaurants were already serving when it opened, and the road work along Glenville Road had already reached its final phase. A new restaurant had been running at The Mill for almost two months. Glenville spent three years rebuilding its center around an empty anchor space, and the supermarket filled in the one piece still missing.
How the Gap Opened
Greenwich Time reported in June 2023 that the Glenville Stop & Shop, the neighborhood's only supermarket, had closed on a Thursday that month. The company said the store was "not meeting financial expectations." The paper also quoted retail observers who thought the Wegmans that opened in Harrison in 2020 had pulled shoppers away. In that same story, First Selectman Fred Camillo called for a Glenville shopping center.
From that June 2023 closing to the September 9, 2026 opening, Glenville went about three years and three months without a full-service supermarket. Here is the order things happened in after that:
- June 2023. Stop & Shop closes at 21 Glenville Street.
- March 31, 2025. Construction starts on the Glenville Corridor road project. It begins at Glen Ridge Road and Glenville Street and moves east.
- June 2026. The Town says the corridor work is entering its final phase, with overnight paving scheduled for June 21 to 25.
- July 15, 2026. Greenwich Grill opens at The Mill on Pemberwick Road.
- September 9, 2026. DeCicco & Sons opens in the old Stop & Shop space.
The Glen Plaza restaurants don't fit neatly on that list because they arrived one at a time. By opening day, though, all of them were open.
The Plaza Filled In Before the Anchor Did
The Greenwich Free Press opening-day coverage said the whole shopping center had changed since the former post office building was renovated. That building is now home to Green & Tonic, Luca's Pizzeria and Italian Kitchen, Longford's Ice Cream and Bluebird Taqueria.
Taken together, those four cover a lot of a weekday. Green & Tonic handles lunch and smoothies. Luca's does pizza and Italian for a family dinner. Bluebird Taqueria is the taco run, and Longford's covers dessert. All of them were open while the big space next door sat empty. With a grocery store in the building again, one stop in the lot can cover the weekly shopping, dinner and an ice cream cone.
The parking has changed too. DeCicco & Sons added a signature tower to the front of the building and expanded the parking behind it, and signs now direct drivers around back. If you parked out front at the old Stop & Shop for years, expect a new routine.
What Is Inside 21 Glenville Street Now
The store is about 20,000 square feet. According to the company's opening announcement, it has fresh produce and deli departments, natural meats, seafood delivered daily, a large cheese selection, fresh sushi, baked goods made in the store, locally brewed coffee, a fresh juice bar, a chopped salad station and a global selection of craft beers.
Prepared food gets the most space, which is how the company has always run its stores. There are hot food and salad bars, the DeCicco & Sons Signature Series line, and a range of ready-made salads, sides and dinners. The store also does catering and event services. The company says it is best known for its beer department, its in-house fresh mozzarella and its guacamole.
For anyone who drove to Harrison or across town for groceries over the past three years, the store is back within a short drive of Pemberwick, Glenville and western Greenwich. In the announcement, CEO John DeCicco Jr. said "Glenville felt like a natural fit for us." The family's story goes back to a grocery store in the Bronx that the elder DeCicco brothers opened in 1973.
The Road Between the Stops Changed Too
The Glenville Corridor project is the reason getting between these places feels different. It covers about 1,500 feet of road between Glen Ridge Road at Glenville Street and Weaver Street. The work includes signal timing, intersection improvements, new sidewalks and pedestrian-safety changes.
In June, the Greenwich Free Press described the work in more detail:
- New sidewalks and signals at Glenville Road and Pemberwick Road
- An improved intersection at Glen Ridge Road and Glenville Street
- An improved intersection at Glenville Road and Weaver Street
- At Glenville Pizza, an extended curb, grass and a sidewalk in place of the old informal shoulder parking, with parallel parking just west of the restaurant
The last change on that list is the one regulars will feel. If you used to pull onto the shoulder for a quick pickup at Glenville Pizza, that spot is gone, and the parking is now on the street a few steps west.
The same report said CTDOT approved a $6.5 million state award to cover the project's total cost. The Town's original notice in March 2025 estimated the construction would take about a year. The Town's June 15, 2026 update said the project was entering its final phase. After the milling and paving, only minor punch-list work and closeout were left. We haven't seen a later public notice confirming formal closeout, so the best description is that the project was in its final phase as of June.
Down Pemberwick Road to the Waterfall
The second new place to eat is at the other end of the corridor. Greenwich Grill opened on July 15 at The Mill Greenwich, 328 Pemberwick Road, in the space that used to be Lion Brasserie. Greenwich Time describes The Mill as a historic mill on the Byram River that now holds apartments, lounges and dining space. The restaurant's opening announcement in the Greenwich Free Press highlighted its patio facing the waterfall.
Manager David Wolvovsky told Greenwich Time the menu is a "nice, classic American grill." It includes prime New York strip steak, half roasted chicken, grilled salmon, burgers and half racks of ribs. The cocktail list includes the London Mist, made with house-infused Earl Grey Empress gin, lavender, violet, lemon and an egg-white finish. As of this writing, the restaurant's own site lists the Pemberwick Road address and takes reservations and online orders.
There is older business on Pemberwick Road too. Vi's European Market & Deli, at 83 Pemberwick Road, was profiled by the Greenwich Free Press in 2025 as a family-run deli and market open Monday through Saturday. That profile is more than a year old, so check the hours before you go.
The Constants at the Intersection
Some things around the new storefronts haven't changed. Glenville Shell sits at the Glenville Road intersection across from the Glenville Fire Company. It is a service station and repair shop, and a 2026 Greenwich Free Press profile reported that Anthony Zaccagnino had run it for 44 years. The same profile mentions Glenville Pizza as another long-running business nearby.
That mix is what the center looks like in October 2026. There is a service station run by the same owner for 44 years and a pizzeria that now sits on a curb extension. There is a renovated post office building with four places to eat, a grocer making its first move outside New York, and a grill overlooking the Byram River waterfall. All of it sits along one stretch of road that the state paid to rebuild.
The Next Date on the Glenville Calendar
The next community event on this side of town is Greenwich Parks & Recreation's Halloween Happenings. It runs Friday, October 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Bendheim Western Greenwich Civic Center, 449 Pemberwick Road, with music, games and refreshments. The Civic Center is on the same road as The Mill, so dinner at Greenwich Grill or a prepared-foods pickup at 21 Glenville Street fits easily around it.
Juan Carlos and the team at Sunbelt Realty keep track of changes like these across western Greenwich, from new storefronts to finished road projects. If you own in Glenville or Pemberwick and want to talk through what the new center means for your street, call or text Juan Carlos today.
