Pete’s Fresh Market’s new Oak Park store location has been in-the-works for the better part of a decade, but the store still doesn’t have an open date for customers months after it was promised.
A 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 delays, construction on the store appears to be nearing its conclusion.
Village officials told Wednesday Journal they don’t yet know when the new location will open. The village will be invoicing the developers for fines over the construction delay, officials confirmed last week.
As part of the grocery chain’s most recent deal with the village, Pete’s Fresh Market had to receive a Certificate of Occupancy permit by Sunday, Feb. 15 or face fines, village officials said in a statement earlier this year…