NASHUA – More than a year after the city approved the idea of demolishing the former Market Basket in Somerset Plaza and replacing it with a fitness center, the building stands empty and crumbling, looking more like the set of a zombie-apocalypse film than a commercial site.

Its future is a mystery.

“We haven’t heard anything,” said Anne Eggleton, manager of The Paper Store, when asked about their neighbor.

The Paper Store is next to the decrepit former Market Basket, which seems to have been untouched since fixtures and equipment was ripped out. Advertising posters from two years ago still tacked to a bulletin board and a sign is still affixed to a front door from the day that Market Basket moved on June 16, 2013.

Inside the 30,000-square-foot building, pipes and wires hang from the ceiling, crumbled wallboard litters the floor, and aside from a dusty desk the space appears empty.

The Nashua Building Safety Department issued permits for the demolition of the building after the Planning Board approved the project in early February 2014. Those permits have expired and there has been no application to renew them, said William McKinney, department manager.

Demoulas Inc., the parent company of Market Basket, owns Somerset Plaza at 375 Amherst St. The construction and demolition permits list a contact for Demoulas, but that phone number has been disconnected.

Attempts to contact Demoulas corporate headquarters in Tewksbury, Mass., were unsuccessful.

Also unsuccessful have been attempts to get information from LA Fitness, the company that was supposed to be moving into the space to open its first gym in New Hampshire.

Somerset Plaza seems to be bustling otherwise. A stand-alone Chik-fil-A restaurant opened last year, the new Market Basket store at the far end of the plaza seems busy, and there appear to be no problems filling other vacant spots.

The LA Fitness project may have become entangled with Market Basket’s corporate dispute last year, which delayed construction at some Demoulas-owned properties in Massachusetts.

Market Basket, as is well known, underwent a six-month fight between two Demoulas cousins over ownership of the operation, which saw employees support the CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas, who eventually bought the company last fall.

The dispute was so unusual that a movie is being made about it.

David Brooks can be reached at 594-6531, dbrooks@nashuatelegraph.com or @GraniteGeek.