Butera Fruit Market Opens in Grayslake

GRAYSLAKE, IL - Grayslake once again has a second supermarket in town.

Butera Fruit Market opened on Friday at Center Street and Atkinson Road, bringing to Grayslake another grocery shopping option for the first time since 2013, the Daily Herald reports.

The store opening will not only give Jewel-Osco, which prior to Friday was the only supermarket in Grayslake, some competition but will also fill a space left vacant when Farmers Market closed in 2013, according to a February article in the Daily Herald. Prior to Farmers Market, Piggly Wiggly occupied the space for several years.

Last month, the Grayslake Village Board approved an economic development incentives package with Butera Market. As part 0f the incentives package, $6.2 million in improvements was to the building, the Daily Herald reports. That included the addition of 7,000-square-feet of space to the building and the addition of new refrigerator cases.

Under the incentives agreement, Butera will receive a $195,000 payout once the grocery store opens and the redevelopment of the shopping center has been completed, according to village documents. The store could receive as much as $555,000 in annual sales tax rebate from sales tax generated by the grocery store over a 10 year period, according to the agreement with the village.

Butera Market is a family-owned full-service supermarket that currently has 11 other grocery stores in the Chicago area.

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