Inside The Meat King on Friday. Still hanging by ex-Ferraro’s exit on Grand. Roughly five years after moving their family’s grocery store to North Haven, the owners of Ferraro’s Market have sold the supermarket building at 662 Grand Ave. to the property’s current occupant, The Meat Ki ng. That sale was recorded on the city’s land records database on March 13. A warranty deed documenting the sale states that 664 Grand Ave Realty LLC paid $2.26 million to 664 Grand Avenue LLC to purchase the two-story supermarket property at 662 Grand Ave. The city last appraised that property for tax purposes as worth $1,720,100. The Hamden-based company that sold 662 Grand is controlled by brothers Peter, Mark, and John Ferraro. The New Haven-based company that bought the property is controlled by Hernando Cepeda of Brooklyn, New York. A separate city land records filing shows that, on the same day as the property sale, the Ferraro brothers’ company granted Cepeda, 664 Grand Ave Realty LLC, and The Meat King LLC a $2.26 million mortgage loan. Ferraro’s Market — a family-owned grocery store that started on State Street in the early 1950s — operated out of the 662 Grand Ave. building from the 1970s through 2020, when the owners downsized and moved the business to North Haven. A different grocery store called The Meat King opened in the Grand Avenue store after Ferraro’s left. (In 2023, The Meat King merged with still another grocery store chain, C-Town. The 662 Grand location is now called The Meat King by C-Town.) The March 13 sale shows that, a half decade after moving into the Grand Avenue building and replacing Ferraro’s, The Meat King now owns the property it occupies. Al Lauro, the general manager of the Ferraro’s Market on Universal Drive in North Haven, told the Independent on Friday that the Grand Avenue sale shouldn’t affect the current Ferraro’s business in any way. “We relocated five years ago,” he said. “We’ve been separate entities [from the 662 Grand business] since we moved here.” Lauro estimated that the current North Haven site is roughly half the size of Ferraro’s former home on Grand Avenue. He added that he’s been to The Meat King supermarket several times. He described Cepeda as “a nice gentleman, I wish him luck.” Cepeda did not respond to a request for comment by the publication time of this article. That there is a meat king. The post Meat King Buys Ex-Ferraro’s Site For $2.26M appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less