Popular Staten Island shopping plaza will soon add new stores, according to real estate listing

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A Staten Island shopping center, which lost several major retailers over the past five years, will soon get a major makeover.

“Hylan Commons, situated at the corner of Hylan Boulevard and New Dorp Lane, is a well-established neighborhood retail center,” noted a real estate listing on Loopnet.com, which recently began to advertise available retail space in the shopping center, located at 2530 Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp, placing a list of high-profile merchants on a map of the center.

“The property, anchored by Aldi and T.J. Maxx, contains 89,817 square feet of gross leasable space within minutes of New Dorp Beach access,” the listing continued. “Co-anchor space and in-line retail units are immediately available among a curated tenant roster that also includes Starbucks, Shake Shack, Veterinary Emergency Group, and Pho Today.”

There are currently six vacant stores in Hylan Commons, and one temporarily occupied by Spirit Halloween. But according to a listing brochure posted on LoopNet by the site’s developer, Treeco, Shake Shack will soon occupy that Spirit Halloween space (formerly Five Below) and Pho Today — a Vietnamese restaurant — will set up shop two doors down. Veterinary Emergency Group — a 24-hour pet E.R. — will take up the freestanding space once occupied by Municipal Credit Union, according to the listing.

Treeco did not respond to a request for comment to confirm the details. And a representative from Shake Shack said there is no lease signed at Hylan Commons.

As previously reported by the Advance/SILive.com, Aldi is currently building out a store in the shopping center, but the discount grocer will not occupy the entire storefront that was once earmarked for Amazon Fresh. A 20,500 square-foot portion of that real estate — where Applebee’s once stood — is now being advertised as leasable space.

Hylan Commons once housed a bevy of retailers, including Annie Sez, New York & Company, Justice, Boston Market, Carter’s, Applebee’s and Five Below. A large strip of the center has been vacant for at least four years and was readying for a “supermarket anchor” since 2021. Other storefronts have emptied more recently, including the space occupied by Five Below, which relocated to The Boulevard last year.