Pete’s Fresh Market’s new Oak Park store location has been in-the-works for the better part of a decade, but with deadlines approaching village officials do not have knowledge of an opening date for the store.
The grocery store planned for the lot at 640-728 Madison St has been in development since 2018, three years after the family-owned chain store’s first location opened in Oak Park in a former Dominck’s store on Lake Street. After years of construction delays and permit extensions attributed to the Covid pandemic, supply chain issues, the loss of the site’s original architect and other factors, the building’s shell now appears to be largely complete.
But village officials told Wednesday Journal last week that they don’t yet know what day the new location is scheduled to open…