Lake Street’s global grocery game is about to get a serious upgrade. Karmel Market, a new full-service halal supermarket, is set to open at Yusuf Corner on Lake Street in Minneapolis on May 2. The store is aiming squarely at Somali, Arab, and Latino shoppers with a broad selection of halal meats, fresh produce, and in-store bakery and deli counters.
The roughly 18,000-square-foot store is slated to open May 2, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. The outlet reports that the market will carry Latino, Arabic, and Somali products alongside fresh produce and meats. Developers say bringing a larger-format grocer to the corridor is meant to pull together specialty items that shoppers now track down across multiple smaller stores.
Where It Will Sit
Sabri Properties lists Karmel Market at Yusuf Corner at 2933 Pleasant Avenue and describes the space as a community-focused grocer with restaurants, a bakery, deli, and meat and fish counters. City planning documents filed with the City of Minneapolis include site and landscaping plans for the Yusuf Corner project at 2933 Pleasant Avenue, which line up with the developer’s description.
Why It Matters for Lake Street
Lake Street is a long-established immigrant retail corridor that already leans heavily on Somali hubs and Latino marketplaces, and a larger halal supermarket would centralize offerings that are currently scattered among small specialty shops. Heavy Table has documented the corridor’s dense mix of Somali and Latino businesses and the challenges they face, underscoring why a full-service grocer of this scale could be significant for local shoppers…