Gooh Grocery offers a new vision

Jerreh Kujabi and Samba Baldeh in the new store. Jerreh Kujabi, left, and Samba Baldeh, opened Gooh Grocery in the former Visions nightclub. It’s a success story on a number of levels. Strip club is transformed into neighborhood grocery store. A neighborhood within one of Madison’s food access improvement areas gets a locally owned market aimed at serving its specific needs within easy walking distance. An historic building in the Streamline Moderne style is saved from being replaced by another cookie-cutter development. And there are four new apartments on the second level. Win, win, win, win.

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