Community leaders and residents gathered Friday afternoon at the corner of Lowry and North Penn Avenues to celebrate the grand opening of Colonial Market, a new full-scale grocery store that aims to transform access to fresh food in North Minneapolis.
The store opens in an area long considered a food desert, where thousands of residents have struggled with limited access to affordable groceries since the closure of Aldi in 2023. Colonial Market aims to fill that gap.
“You got 50,000 residents on the North side, and when a market closes it becomes even more of a food desert,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey…