Rite Aid Closing Additional Pittsburgh Locations

PITTSBURGH, PA — Rite Aid is closing nearly three dozen additional locations nationwide after announcing the closure last month of more than 150 stores. Two of the 32 additional stores are in Pittsburgh.

One is the chain's Downtown location on Smithfield Street. The other is the Hazelwood store on Second Avenue.

The additional closures were disclosed in a recent court filing as the Philadelphia-based Rite Aid grapples with a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing last month.

As part of its financial reorganization plan, the company said in a statement that it plans to accelerate its "footprint optimization plan."

Rite Aid did not indicate precisely how many of its stores would close under the plan, but previous reports indicated the company would shutter as many of 500 of its 2,100 locations in 17 states.

Six Pittsburgh Rite Aid locations are among the initial 99 nationwide that have been placed on the market as the pharmacy chain attempts to navigate through its bankruptcy reorganization. They are located at:

• 5990 University Blvd., Moon
• 6090 Route 30, Greensburg
• 1730 Wilmington Rd., New Castle
• 700 Stevenson Blvd., New Kensington
• 351 Brighton Ave., Rochester
• 208 East Central Ave., Titusville