![]() ![]() Other debut vendors include Aplomb, a vintage clothing and home goods boutique that currently has a pop-up location, and Friistyle, a new Belgian frites stand still under construction. Merritt and Corey Gilkey will have spaces at Boxville, selling vintage goods and creatively topped Belgian frites, respectively. "It'll be more of a community experience, not as cut-and-dried as a produce stand," said Melissa Flynn, Green City Market's executive director. As with other Green City Market locations, Produce Box will match customers’ LINK purchases up to $15. It will offer conventional produce from the family-owned Hyde Park Produce, pre-cut fruit, Italian ice, and baskets in the $20 range containing a week’s worth of produce, which customers can pre-order and even have delivered, like a subscription-free produce share. Chefs will provide food samples and demonstrate easy, one-pan recipes weekly. Green City Market will anchor half of the 40-foot, street-facing container-called Produce Box-selling produce from 4 to 7 p.m., collected that morning from farmers at the popular Lincoln Park market. Two more 20-foot containers will eventually be added, totaling six boxes and nine vendors. ![]() It’ll operate until October, shut down for the winter, and reopen again next year. "We're trying to create a progression of spaces." The Starting Lineupīoxville will be open on Wednesdays initially and ramp up to at least five days a week, according to Loyd, whose development firm Urban Juncture is spearheading the venture. "The idea was always to have a community plaza with vending opportunities, something informal," says Loyd, a Bronzeville resident and former McKinsey executive. It’s the latest project from developer Bernard Loyd, who has spent the last decade finding ways to revitalize the neighborhood-which, despite its history as the cultural and economic hub of Chicago’s African American community, has struggled to attract investment in recent years. Picture four giant metal Lego pieces, plunked down in a grassy vacant lot with a wood-planked plaza in the middle-but those Lego pieces are filled with groceries, prepared food, a boutique, and a bike repair shop. Wednesday for what organizers are calling a preview, is built out of old shipping containers. Like Geiger, they dip in and out for cigarettes, sodas, something from the fast-food counter.Īcross 51st Street, in the shadow of the CTA Green Line stop, a unique, open-air retail development nearing completion aims to change how Geiger and other residents eat, shop, and interact.īoxville, which opens at 4 p.m. ![]() The bustling convenience store has a small section of shrink-wrapped produce-pale tomatoes, cucumbers with shriveled ends, bruised apples for a buck apiece-but customers aren’t buying them. 51st St.) holding a few cans of energy drinks. The 28-year-old stood in line on a recent afternoon at Red Apple Food and Liquor (315 E. Tawanna Geiger lives in Bronzeville but rarely buys groceries near her home for one reason: "Because there's nothing in the neighborhood to buy. ![]()
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