Grayslake Will Soon Get a Second Grocery Store

The village of Grayslake, which has had only one grocery store in town since 2013, is soon to get a second.

The Grayslake Village Board this past week approved an economic development incentives package with Butera Market, which plans to open its new Grayslake grocery store on the southeast corner of Atkinson Road and Center Street in late March or early April, Grayslake Mayor Rhett Taylor told the Daily Herald.

The store opening will not only give Jewel-Osco, currently the only supermarket in Grayslake, some competition but will also fill a space left vacant when Farmers Market closed in 2013, Taylor told the newspaper. Prior to Farmers Market, Piggly Wiggly occupied the space for several years.

As part 0f the incentives package, at least $6.2 million in improvements will be made to the building, according to the article.

The agreement will also include a $195,000 payout to Butera 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.

Photo credit: Butera