ABC Supply to open roofing store at former Lansing Market

The building at 3125 N. Triphammer Rd., which once hosted the Lansing Market, will be the site of a new roofing supplies business in the town of Lansing. 

ABC Supplies Co., a major, private American roofing supply company based in Beloit, Wisconsin, hopes to open its doors at the site of the former market in August. The company sells windows, gutters and siding for residential and commercial buildings and is the largest roofing and vinyl siding wholesale distributor in the United States, according to a Forbes article.

The ownership group, dubbed Lansing Market Realty, LLC, is partially managed by Nicholas Slottje. Slottje is also the CEO and President of Charlesbank Realty Group, which has a portfolio of commercial properties across Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston where the company is headquartered; cities in upstate New York; and in Pennsylvania.

The 14,000-square-foot commercial space includes a parking lot that can accommodate 75 vehicles, stretched across 3.9 acres. It was sold at the beginning of June to Lansing Market Realty LLC for $1.25 million, slightly under its listing value of $1.7 million, according to an article in The Ithaca Voice. 

Slottje said that he bought the building from Andy Sciarabba. 

“He has been a long colleague, and someone that our family office knows well,” Slottje said of Sciarabba. “And he was a pleasure to deal with, as he always is. He’s a real gentleman. And we purchased [the property] for ABC Supply, which is a tenant that our firm does a lot of business with. This will be our third location for them.”

The lease with ABC Supply, Slottje said, is almost at a point where it can be signed and executed.

“It is going to be a nice addition to the community,” Slottje added. “ABC Supply generates $20 billion as a company; it is really well capitalized. They have 1,000-plus locations across the country.”

The company will have access to the property on Aug. 1.

“They are going to go in and do their branding on the inside. Get the place staffed,” Slottje said. “They already have a general manager hired, and they will go in and get themselves set up. Then it’ll be up to them to get open. They usually take somewhere between 30 and 60 days to get everything branded, delivered, set up. They’ll occupy the entire building.”

Slottje, who alongside his brother Spencer were tasked with outreach to ABC Supply on the potential location, said that the company has been looking at the Tompkins County market for some time. 

“We grew up in Ithaca, so it’s a market that we know really well,” Slottje said of himself and his brother. “We both went to Ithaca High School. We own other property in Ithaca, and so we’ve been kind of looking for something for them. And this just happened to kind of work out in terms of timing and being an available building.”

The Lansing Market shut down at the end of 2022 after 11 years of serving the Lansing community as a local grocer and an employer for about 30 employees, both part- and full-time, including local high school and college students, according to an article in The Ithaca Voice, and Sciarabba said at the time that the decision to close was at least partially due to the competition of the many stores in and surrounding Lansing, such as Tops, Target and BJ’s. 

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article contained the erroneous statement that the building was purchased from Andy Sciarabba of local design firm Engineering + Design in the village of Trumansburg. It was purchased from a different Andy Sciarabba. Tompkins Weekly regrets the error.