JANESVILLE — The Janesville City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to give $50,000 in federal COVID-era funds to the owners of a planned southside grocery store to help remodel the building they recently purchased on Center Avenue.
The council also, in separate action, voted unanimously to apply for two federal grants, in the amounts of $500,000 and $19.2 million, that could help redevelop portions of the former General Motors and JATCO sites, and surrounding properties on the city’s southside.
Additionally, the council on Monday night voted unanimously to declare November “Homeless Awareness Month” and recognized its longest-serving poll workers in the final lead-up to the Nov. 5 election.
Santa Maria Supermarket
Santa Maria Supermarket, a family-owned operation that has a Madison location, closed in late September on its purchase of a building at 1820 Center Avenue.
It plans to open a grocery store with a bakery, butcher, taqueria, ice cream and general groceries, with about 10,000 square feet of retail space, similar in size to an existing ALDI store in Janesville, council members said. It would have another 2,000-square feet of storage and non-retail-floor space.