With scaffolding wrapped around the exterior of its building, Lindell Delicatessen & Grocery is in the midst a facelift.
Aniano Brothers contractors is replacing the exterior brick at the building that has housed the family-owned business at the northeast corner of Lindell Boulevard and West Park Avenue for 40 years.
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P.J. Whelan, a co-owner of the deli, told Patch on Wednesday that the work to reface the building will take another three to four weeks to complete. He said the landlord of the building, which also includes seven apartments on the second floor, is undertaking the project.
“It has to do with the age of the building, not anything to do with Hurricane Sandy,” said Whelan, who believes the building dates to at least the 1950s.During Sandy, floodwaters and raw sewage wreaked significant electrical damage at the deli and apartments, causing the business an estimated $80,000 in damages and $2,000 in lost revenue each day the store remained closed. In June, Patch talked with Kevin and Marge Whelan, P.J.’s brother and mother, shortly after the deli reopened seven months after the storm that Kevin described as “a nightmare.”
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