City Market is considering opening a new grocery store in Burlington’s Old North End.
The bustling downtown food co-op — its full name is City Market/Onion River Co-op — is already in the process of expanding to the South End. Its leaders hope to break ground this summer on a 31,000-square-foot store at the corner of Briggs Street and Flynn Avenue.
General manager John Tashiro announced Wednesday that the co-op is also considering adding a third store, at 242 North Winooski Avenue. “Our Members have been clear that they’d like us to have a presence in Burlington’s Old North End,” he noted in the press release.
After an auto parts store at the Old North End location closed several months ago, Redstone Commercial Group bought the 14,000-square-foot property. City Market has signed a tentative lease with Redstone that gives them until October 24 to “conduct some additional due diligence before committing to the full term of the lease.”
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It would be better to open a grocery store that people in the Old North End can afford to shop at.
City Market members have also been clear that we’d like a store in Winooski!
I like eating lunch at City Market .but agree with the Mindbender that day to day shopping is too expensive for most North Enders . Besides that the prospective location at 242 North Winooski Ave just over a half a mile from the current location . A half mile away ? Isn’t this just hubris on the part of City Market management ?
How appropriate it would be to go back to that neighborhood…. just a few steps away from the long-time store that the Co-op had at 274 North Winooski and not far from the old Archibald Street location.
I really do not get why they do not consider the New North End, where we could use them desperately, and there are a LOT of people here. Oh well I wish they would, plus they would get people from Colchester too.
Hannaford is pretty lame, especially the meat and seafood section. No one would force you to shop there. . You get what you pay for, I stand by my statement regarding a City Market in the NNE. But hopefully Besserys will be back soon.
well basically you said NNE does not need a higher end market, and I am stating that your opinion and mine differ, I would love to have some quality here, we have Hannafords and worse, Price Chopper. Oh well I am done just voicing my opinion