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With A/C Broken, Walgreens Pharmacy’s Been Hot, but Fix Expected by Saturday
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The air conditioning has been out at Walgreens Pharmacy in Noroton Heights for weeks, but on one of the hottest weekends of the year, so far, the cool air is expected to be back — by Saturday afternoon, the company says. An air conditioning unit in the building stopped working about two weeks ago, said Kathy Greene of Darien, a customer who had become concerned about the conditions for employees and talked with the company’s management about the problem. At one point, she recalled, the outside doors hadn’t been open, which seemed to make it hotter inside. Walgreens is responsible for running and maintaining the air conditioning, said Amanda Theslock, a spokeswoman for the building’s owner, Federal Realty, based in Rockville, Md. Walgreens has been waiting to get a part needed in order to fix the air conditioning unit, and the part should arrive Saturday morning, according to an employee at the store who asked not to be named. Scott Goldberg, a spokesman for Walgreens at its headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., said the unit is expected to be fixed by Saturday afternoon.