Star Liquors razed to accommodate stand-alone CVS

WELLINGTON — Drivers traveling along Forest Hill Boulevard on Tuesday may have noticed a bit of a commotion as the longtime Star Liquors building came tumbling down.

Crews demolished the structure to make way for a new stand-alone CVS in the Wellington Town Square plaza on the corner of Forest Hill and South Shore boulevards.

Once the drive-through CVS is completed, Star Liquors will move back to the plaza in part of the space now occupied by the pharmacy, a spokesman for plaza owner Regency Centers told The Post earlier this year.

The project includes blocking off an aisle of the parking lot in front of CVS as crews move the plaza’s entrance to give the new store more room. Construction has been ongoing to create a new rightturn lane from eastbound Forest Hill into the plaza. Crews also will need to move the left-turn lane from westbound Forest Hill into the plaza, plans show.

The standalone CVS will open in the summer of 2019, Regency Centers’ spokesman said. The new building will be 13,300 square feet, about 3,000 square feet larger than the current space.

The approximately 10,000 square feet that now houses CVS will be split into two spaces, with Star Liquors set to move into one space in the fourth quarter of 2019. There is another Star Liquors in the Courtyard Shops plaza at 13860 Wellington Trace.

The Wellington Town Square plaza also is home to Publix, Provident Jewelry, Short Stacks, La Fogata, Topflight Martial Arts and Subway.