Byrne Dairy ready to open new Clay store on Buckley Road
Byrne Dairy was set to open a new Clay store at 7190 Buckley Road, replacing a former car wash and adding gas and deli service near North Medical Center.
Byrne Dairy was set to open its new Clay store Wednesday morning at 7190 Buckley Road, bringing a 4,200-square-foot convenience store, deli and five gas pumps to the corner of Buckley Road and Dolshire Drive. The site sits near North Medical Center, Brooklyn Pickle and Clay South Park, in a corridor that already carries heavy daily traffic.
The project replaced a self-serve car wash, an auto detailing shop and another vacant building. That change matters on Buckley Road, where the new store adds fuel and convenience options to an area that already has another Byrne Dairy about two miles away at Henry Clay Boulevard. The opening makes the company’s footprint on the corridor more visible and gives motorists another stop for food, fuel and quick shopping without leaving the stretch of road.
Byrne Dairy operates more than 75 convenience stores across Upstate New York and has been pushing further into Central New York. Local reporting has said the company was preparing to open its 83rd and 84th stores, a sign that the Clay project is part of a wider expansion rather than an isolated neighborhood buildout. Other projects have been moving in places such as Weedsport and Camillus, showing the company’s growth has been following the region’s road network and population shifts.
The Clay store also passed through a local approval process before construction moved ahead. The Town of Clay Planning Board approved the site plan on Nov. 19, 2025, after earlier town review and the special permit process. In May, Christian Brunelle of Sonbyrne Sales, Inc. said construction was mostly complete and the store was waiting on National Grid to provide power, after an earlier target had pointed to a late-June opening.
The opening lands on a stretch of Buckley Road where Onondaga County already has bigger transportation plans. County officials have a road-widening and sidewalk project planned for that corridor, tentatively scheduled to start in 2027. That means the Byrne Dairy opening is arriving just as the county is preparing to reshape the same roadway, a combination that will affect how residents, medical patients, shoppers and commuters move through Clay in the next few years.
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