Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Approved for North Lawndale Grocery Store

October 16, 2019

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A North Lawndale grocery store will be rehabilitated to better meet its customers’ needs through a $1.2 million Neighborhood Opportunity Fund grant approved today by City Council.

The grant will help reconfigure and rebrand the Leamington Foods store at 3250 W. Roosevelt Road as Living Fresh Market. The 39,000 square feet of improvements will include a revamped layout, updated interior, and related upgrades that will enable expanded food offerings from an in-house bakery and butcher shop.

The grant will be provided to building owner Tolis Advisors LP, which is financing the balance of the $2.4 million project. Leamington Foods is an independently operated, 90-year-old grocery business with additional stores in the Austin neighborhood and Forest Park.

The space formerly housed a location of Dominick’s Finer Foods in the 1980s.

The Neighborhood Opportunity Fund uses voluntary payments from downtown construction projects to support neighborhood commercial corridors in low- to moderate-income communities on the South, Southwest, and West sides.

Projects with grant amounts exceeding $250,000 require City Council approval. More information is available at www.neighborhoodopportunityfund.com.

 

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