As a longtime homeowner in the Forgotten Mile I have long regretted the fact that there is no supermarket south of the Rehoboth Beach cutoff from Route 1 or in the downtown area of Rehoboth Beach itself. While there are plenty of stores selling sunglasses and inflatable rafts, there are only a few small grocery stores with a limited selection in the downtown, the Forgotten Mile and Dewey Beach.
This means that to stock up on more than a few items we must drive north for several miles....no small feat in the summer.
The Giant on Route 1 is the closest supermarket. This is in spite of the fact that there is a perfectly good location to site a moderately sized supermarket in the mostly vacant Rehoboth Beach Plaza Shopping Center just across Route 1 from the Spring Lake development in the Forgotten Mile (that is the area in Sussex County between the Rehoboth Beach and Dewey communities). It even has its own traffic light.
If a supermarket were available there it would cut down on traffic going north past the outlets to do major grocery shopping.
I understand there is a plan to use the site to build more residential units, although this is currently in dispute. I would suggest that rather than more mouths to feed, what the community needs is a nearby supermarket offering a good selection of groceries to supply those already here.
I understand that a supermarket company would have to propose a project, but it might help if the county solicited and supported it.
Ellen Steis
Dewey Beach
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