Supermarkets have turned over in Greenwich, including the closure of Acme on West Putnam Ave, where previously A&P filed for bankruptcy. Today The Goddard School is proposing a preschool and daycare facility at the location. In Glenville on the west side of town, after Stop & Shop closed and parts of the site were rezoned, DeCicco & Sons recently opened their first Connecticut location there with fanfare.
Greenwich residents now have a choice of Stop & Shop on West Putnam, Balducci’s, Whole Foods, Citarella, ACME on East Putnam Ave in Riverside, and Kings in Old Greenwich.
Nearby in Stamford, Mom’s Organic Market is coming to Harbor Point in the South End. The organic grocer has signed a lease for 13,238 sq ft at 699 Canal Street at the site of the shuttered Fairway Market that closed in August 2020. Fairway also had a beverage store at 689 Canal Street.
Signage at the entrance of the former Fairway Market in Harbor Point. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
Empty Fairway Market viewed from across windswept parking lot, with views of apartment towers on Towne Street in Stamford. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
Apartment buildings on Towne Street viewed from former Fairway Market in Stamford’s Harbor Point neighborhood. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
Across the street from the future home of Mom’s Organic Market at 699 Canal Street is O&G Industries, with sand and stone stockpiles. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
A variety of businesses at 711 Canal Street, opposite the former Fairway Market 699 Canal Street. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
A variety of businesses at 711 Canal Street, opposite the former Fairway Market 699 Canal Street. Oct 31, 2026 Photo: Leslie Yager
The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2020. At the time the New York Times wrote about years of financial troubles at Fairway, which despite being crowded with customers, expanded rapidly rapid, with missteps including costly leases, fierce competition, and a takeover by private equity in 2007 that “that fueled complaints about rising prices and diminishing quality.”
Since Fairway departed, the 322-acre Harbor Point neighborhood in Stamford’s South End has continued to add thousands of residential units in high rise buildings featuring water views as part of a planned mixed-use development of the former industrial and lock manufacturing hub.
Building and Land Technology (BLT) is the master developer behind the Harbor Point mixed-use waterfront community. The retail property at 699 Canal Street is managed and being redeveloped by V20 Group, a real estate investment and development company, who purchased the former 86,000-square-foot Fairway property after the supermarket closed in 2020.
Because a Stamford changed a zoning reg that previously required a supermarket at the location be at least 40,000 square feet, V20 Group was able to subdivide its big box to accommodate multiple tenants including Chipotle, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Primrose School (preschool and daycare) and Club Studio, a luxury fitness center.
V20 also led the redevelopment of the former Noroton Heights Shopping Center into “Heights Crossing,” also a mixed-use community by the Noroton Heights train station in Darien.
Residents in the Harbor Point neighborhood have other options, including ShopRite on Shippan Ave and Harbor Point Organic Market, but 699 Canal Street is conveniently located in the heart of the neighborhood where once the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co produced locks, hardware, and safes.
Today the closest location of Mom’s, based in Maryland, is in Dobbs Ferry, New York, about 25 miles from Greenwich.
According to the Mom’s website, “Scott Nash started MOM’s at the age of 22 with an initial investment of $100 as a home delivery business out of a garage. On July 2nd 1987, MOM’s made its first sale delivering to a customer who lived in Rockville, MD.”
This will be Mom’s first location in Connecticut. The store is projected to open in 2027.