Business

After more than 14 months of darkened screens and empty seats, the East Hampton movie theater will reopen on Friday, May 21, according to Manhattan Skyline, the company that leases the building to Regal Cinemas. 

Amagansett

Glenn Behr to Handy Lane L.L.C., 42 Handy Lane, Dec. 22, $1,570,000.

Annie and James Lansing to Jacqueline Judd, 74 Hampton Lane, Jan. 15, $4,508,000.

Northstar Trust to Town of East Hampton, 41 Arbor Path (vacant), Feb. 2, $2,000,000.

360 Cranberry Hole Road L.L.C. to Daniel Schmitz, 360 Cranberry Hole Road, Feb. 17, $3,985,000.

Jeffrey A. O’Brien to Marie and Michael Pope, 151 Bluff Road, March 19, $2,175,000.

Bridgehampton

A new cleaning service on the Circle, inns offering books for your bedside reading pleasure, and a new gym store.

It's a drop in the fishing bucket, but New York has begun to distribute $6.7 million in relief aid to the state's seafood, marine commercial, and for-hire fishing industries after excessive business losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the coming weeks, award recipients will receive a letter accompanied by a check, based on reported economic loss experienced in 2020 compared to the previous five years.

The news on Monday of a "major reopening" of New York State came not a moment too soon for the South Fork's caterers and restaurateurs, for whom the pandemic represented an unprecedented disruption of business but who now must move swiftly to book and prepare for summer events while keeping an eye on state guidance that remains fluid.

The latest real estate transfers.

From liquor stores to landscapers, East End businesses are scrambling to staff up for the summer as an increase in job opportunities, beefed-up unemployment benefits, limited seasonal work visas, and the high cost of living are making it hard to find employees. 

Sales of single-family homes on the South Fork hit a record high in the first three months of the year as a surge in sales lured some who hadn't been planning to sell their houses to "seize the moment."

AMAGANSETT

James Polsky to Jonathan and Schuyler Levin, 28 Sarah’s Path, Nov. 20, $5,050,000.

The week's real estate transfers.

Home Health Care

Hamptons Inclusive Care, a new home health services company founded by Maka Nikachadze and Giorgi Adamashvili, has opened in Water Mill. The company’s home health professionals work with people with chronic illnesses, cognitive or physical disabilities, and terminal illnesses, as well as with people recovering at home from illness or injury or those who require assistance with everyday activities.

Brent’s General Store, the popular deli and catering business in Amagansett, is on the market for an undisclosed amount, according to Hal Zwick, a Compass real estate agent, who holds the listing with his colleague Jeffrey Sztorc.

For the past 34 years, the store has been owned by Artie Seekamp and his longtime business partner, David Winthrop. Mr. Seekamp declined to be interviewed about the sale.