Think it made it until 2020 although was only open like Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
I know I shopped there in 2018 and 2019.
Building was owned by the City.
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Wow that looks incredible! I wasnât really in the business of buying groceries before 2020 (hadnât moved out of my parentsâ house yet) so I never noticed this place. So sad that they closed up. Iâll bet if they had stuck it out just a few years longer to see the downtown housing boom, they might have seen more business.
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And now it just rots away. Like the rest of City Market. I wish there were some legal course for the city to obtain the entire property from its useless owners.
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WellâŚthe City does own this particular property.
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Kelo v. City of New London pretty much gave governments carte blanche to do exactly this 
@JLambertMelton
Anything that you can enlighten us on with this former city property? 
That property was included in the package awarded to Loden (including the surface parking lot behind it) for construction of a hotel and retail. This was separate from the other Moore Sq properties Loden/Harmony were supposed to develop. The City Market project is still advancing.
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Is this still the accurate rendering and proposal for the hotel site? 
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This would be amazing!
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They had the best fresh roasted Spanish peanuts. I miss them.
I was the treasurer for a startup food co-op some years ago. Our GM told me that the wholesale price we were offered on (major organic brand) was higher than the retail price at Whole Foods. There was never, ever a way to compete on price with major chains. We eventually got to join the co-op of co-ops, which resulted in drastically lower wholesale prices â but still substantially above what even bigger chains can negotiate. (I happen to be writing this from Bentonville, an entire metro that exists due to retailer volume discounts!)
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