Former Binghamton CVS Building About to Get New Tenant

An abandoned CVS Pharmacy store in Binghamton is being transformed for a new project.

The Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier has been working for years to develop a supportive crisis stabilization center in Broome County.

The agency acquired the former CVS building at 34 West State Street on Binghamton's North Side for $450,000 in 2023. The CVS store closed in March 2022.

A view inside the former CVS Pharmacy store on West State Street in Binghamton on January 9, 2026. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

Preparation for construction work has just started at the site in recent days.

Association officials have said the planned facility will serve as an alternative for people in crisis in an eight-county region.

The city planning commission was told the center initially will be able to accommodate five adults and five youth or children patients at a time.

The former CVS Pharmacy building at 34 West State Street on January 19, 2026. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

The mental health association indicated the crisis center would be a resource for law enforcement agencies that could reduce the use of hospital emergency rooms.

Under the original plans, the facility would be staffed every day around the clock. The project was approved by the planning commission in 2024.

Workers were preparing to start construction work inside the old CVS store on January 19, 2026. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

Andrea Rotella, the president of the association's executive board, told WNBF News the goal is to have the new center open sometime this summer.

The agency has been awarded $1 million in state funding to develop the Binghamton project.

This story was updated with additional information provided by the Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier.

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