Neighborhood Market Needs a New Use

The former Sherburne Street Market once provided this neighborhood with a place where city residents could pick up some milk, bread or a sandwich at lunch time, but it has remained closed for several months with no apparent takers.

Sherburne Street residents say the former Sherburne Street Market located close to the Robert J. Lister Academy has been closed for years. At a time when the City Council is debating whether to allow zoning that would permit neighborhood markets and stores in residential neighborhoods, the future fate of the Sherburne Street Market could become even more uncertain.

When it was open, it served as a convenient neighborhood market that provided basic groceries, coffee and deli sandwiches. Now it is a haven for rabbits and woodchucks and the building has fallen into a great deal of disrepair.

What do you think would make a good use for this property? Would another neighborhood market be the best way to utilize the site or should some other business be a better fit? Let us know.