Bests’ Ace Hardware in Lewes officially moves to new location
After 54 years at Five Points outside Lewes, Bests’ Ace Hardware has moved. A sign on the door says, “Closed as of 10/7/22!!”
The new store is now open around the corner on Route 9 at 32437 Lewes-Georgetown Highway.
The Best family has been operating a business in and around the Nassau and Five Points area for nearly 100 years. In 1932, Thomas Best Sr. built a grain milling operation alongside the railroad that went through Nassau. The family moved the business to its current location in 1968. It became hardware only in 1993.
The Delaware Department of Transportation purchased the property in the old location in September 2019 and is set to begin Five Point intersection improvements soon. C.R. McLeod, DelDOT spokesperson, said access to the parking lot will be blocked off in November to prevent any through traffic and the existing building will be demolished in the near future.
A portion of the property will be used as part of the upcoming Plantation Road improvements, said McLeod, in an email Oct. 12.
For more information on the new store, call Bests’ Ace Hardware at 302-645-6658.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
