WINOOSKI, Vt. (Seven Days VT)
Commodites Brings a Market to Winooski
Winooski may be known as Burlington’s Brooklyn, but it’s also a confirmed food desert. Both those reasons drew Michael Hughes to choose the city as the home of his third Commodities Natural Market. The new store will open this summer in a 3,300-square-foot space in Keen’s Crossing.
“There’s nothing there. That was really the main driver for me,” says Hughes of Winooski. The compact burg’s nearest grocery store is the Shaw’s up the hill in Colchester, about 20 minutes by foot from downtown. Hughes says that part of Winooski’s attraction for him is its similarity to the rough-and-tumble East Village of 1993, the site of his first store. He and his wife, Audra, opened a second Commodities Read More…