Will housing replace stores in this Staten Island shopping center?

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – They’ve lost their supermarket, a treasured pork store and a quaint mom-and-pop card shop. And now residents who live in close proximity to Evergreen Plaza in Great Kills fear that those consecutive closures signal that the strip mall is being cleared for residential use.

“Like they’re not going to demolish this and build another 400 houses on it?” one reader commented on the Advance/SILive.com’s social media page, reacting to a story about the Plaza’s recent loss of Dunkin’, Soriano’s and Thriftway Card & Gift.