Is the owner of United Market at Linwood a grocery whisperer? He’s opening No. 2

It might be becoming a thing. The guy who took over the former Sun Fresh in the Linwood Shopping Center to save a grocery store for East Side Kansas City residents in the Prospect corridor might have a knack for turning around urban markets.

We’ll see, because that guy, Anthony Estrada, just took on a new challenge: managing another grocery store in what used to be The Merc Co+op, a community-owned market in Kansas City, Kansas.

It’s a project Estrada said he’s been working toward for more than a year…

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