The McKee Square property that has long been home to a Rite Aid was purchased by a Concord-area optometrist for $1.7 million at the end of last month.

The new owner, through an LLC, is Hooksett resident Tyler Weber. Weber declined to comment on the sale, but said in an email to the Monitor that the Rite-Aid isn’t going anywhere.

Previously owned by a trust out of Florida in the name of A. Leonard Seeche, 92 South Street was put on the market after the trustee passed away, according to Scott Walker, a broker on the purchase. The property had been in Seeche’s name since at least 1980, though the Rite Aid building dates back to 1964, according to city property records.

Rite Aid has shuttered hundreds of its pharmacies nationwide over the last year or so as part of bankruptcy proceedings: Two in Concord, this one at McKee Square and on North State Street, survived those closures, but a third, at the Fort Eddy Plaza, did not.

Catherine McLaughlin can be reached at cmclaughlin@cmonitor.com. You can subscribe to her Concord newsletter The City Beat at concordmonitor.com.