Calabria Imports Reopening After Lease Dispute

If you have been pining for meatballs and Italian cold cuts your long wait is coming to an end. 

Calabria Imports,1905 W. 103rd St., is set to reopen at noon on Thursday, Jan. 10 after closing for two days due to a lease dispute with the building's owners.

The temporary closing brought discussion to Patch's Facebook page and other neighborhood pages about the importance of supporting local business.

Ald. Matt O'Shea urged residents to shop at Calabria on Thursday as a sign of community support for the business.   

Owner Pat Roberto posted the following message to Patch's Facebook page:

We are happy to inform you that we will be reopening today!!
Our Beverly locations will open today at 12:00.

We would like to thank you, our customers, for all the support and concern we have received in the past couple days. We are truly 
overwhelmed by all of your kindness. It is so nice to know how much people care, and being a small familiy business it means the world to us.

We would also like to thank our staff for standing behind us as we worked out our issues. We are lucky to have such loyal and good people work for us. We have received a lot of emails about how great these people are and we couldn't agree more.

We cannot thank you enough for your support, but know how much we appreciate it.