Sons now involved in legal proceedings to incorporate a new company.

And the new store will likely be based at Southside where a vacant supermarket has sat since the US Navy pulled out in 1995.

A legal notice in March 17's Bermuda Sun reported that White & Sons (Holding) Limited had applied to incorporate a local company with limited liability called White's at Southside Limited.

The new company's objects, continued the notice, will be "to engage in and carry on the business or businesses of retailers, wholesalers, importers, exporters, repairers and manufacturers and dealers in merchandise and commercial commodities of every description''. White & Sons co-owner Gary White yesterday declined to comment on the notice as it was part of a legal proceeding.

But a report in the August 18 edition of The Royal Gazette revealed that the Warwick store operators were holding talks with Southside developers over a possible new outlet on the former US naval base.

The nearest grocery stores to the area, which has undergone commercial and residential development since being taken over by the Bermuda Land Development Company, are located in St. George and Bailey's Bay.

The site under consideration at that time for the store was understood to be the old commissary at the former US Naval Air Station.