Six months after covering the glass with white paper and posting signs that a new business was coming soon, two of Norm Newman’s larger vacant buildings remain closed.

But Norm Newman now tells Deepsaidwhat that he is “getting closer” to finalizing a deal to fill the vacant Inca and Pier 1 buildings he owns.

“We have had meetings (with an unnamed developer) and we are that much closer to getting there,” Newman says.

Newman remains tightllipped on who the potential developer might be, only saying that it is a “good company.” Deepsaidwhat reported here in February that the German-owned Aldi grocery chain was the business moving into the properties.

“We are negotiating,” he says. “Either we will make a deal soon or we won’t.”

Asked if the business going into his two vacant buildings was an Aldi grocery store, which some top city officials have privately told us it is, Newman would only say “no comment.”

We are still keeping our fingers crossed something will soon move in to these two vacant eyesores.