By Carol Britton Meyer

After sitting vacant for four years, the former convenience store at the corner of A Street and Nantasket Avenue has been sold to a local businessman.

Anthony Ghosn, owner of Mambo’s and Tipsy Tuna, purchased the former 7-Eleven for $1.2 million from 7-Eleven Corporation on July 15 under the corporate name 670 Nantasket Avenue LLC, according to the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds.

**EXHIBIT A:** The long-vacant building at the corner of A Street and Nantasket Avenue that previously housed a 7-Eleven convenience store and A Street Liquors has been sold to the owner of two local restaurants who also had proposed opening a retail marijuana shop in town. His plans for the site are not yet known.

The Registry of Deeds also has a separate agreement between the parties that allows 7-Eleven access to the property post-closing to finish the remediation of hazardous materials that had been delaying the sale of the building.

Ghosn’s plans for the property aren’t yet known and attempts by the Times to reach him were unsuccessful. Ghosn operates the two restaurants in the Surfside area and has submitted a proposal for a license to sell retail marijuana in Hull.

A grocery store or convenience mart had been at the site since the late 1960s until the 7-Eleven store closed in 2021. It previously housed a franchise of the Tedeschi Food Shops chain; A Street Liquors occupied the second unit before relocating across the street.

In June 2022, surveyors discovered a gasoline storage tank near the Nantasket Avenue border of the half-acre site, which is believed to remain from its previous use as the Waveland Garage from about 1922 through 1966.

Ghosn was not the only interested purchaser of the site. Incorporation papers signed by Quick Pick and Atlantic Hill Market owner Bobby Patel on May 16, 2024, list Bhaveshkumar (Bobby) Patel as the president/treasurer/secretary/director of a corporation located at that address, with a convenience store use listed as the intended type of business.

Patel told The Hull Times in a telephone interview Monday that he had earlier signed a purchase and sale agreement with 7-Eleven for $1.2 million, subject to a report confirming the completion of cleanup work on the former gas station site.

Quick Pick and Atlantic Hill Market both serve local neighborhoods, and he envisioned opening a convenience store at 670 Nantasket Avenue to serve that part of town, he told the Times.

Because he was unable to obtain such confirmation – since the cleanup had not yet been completed – “the purchase-and-sale expired,” he said, declining to comment further.

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