Deep River Center, Connecticut

The new Walgreens Pharmacy on Main Street will open for business Tuesday, concluding one phase of a downtown redevelopment plan that was first proposed nearly four years ago.

First Selectman Richard Smith said a grand opening' for the 9,960-square-foot pharmacy and store would be held later this month. Smith said the store, located on the parcel that once contained the landmark Deep River Inn, would provide 36 full- or part-time jobs for area residents.

The opening, which brings a pharmacy back to the town's Main Street for the first time since the former Community Pharmacy closed in June 2000, marks the completion of a redevelopment project that was first unveiled in December 2004 after negotiations between Smith and Turnpike Properties, a Fairfield partnership that owns the Deep River Shopping Center.