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Red Tape around Treasure Island: Why the old Hyde Park Co-op’s space is still vacant
Hyde Park is about to enter its third month without a fully stocked supermarket, and its seventh week of what was originally expected to be a fortnight with no supermarket open at all. This is enough to make one wonder how the University could have promised that by shutting down the Co-Op Market and... »
The Life and Times of the Co-op Market: A storied institution comes to an end
Birth The Hyde Park Co-Operative Society was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, November or December of 1932, by the Shank Family, who lived on 57th Street on the second story of a bookstore, the same building that currently houses the Hyde Park Bank. It was originally a buying club, a strategy... »
X Marks the Spot: Inside Treasure Island, “the most European grocery store in America”
What else could you possibly want to know about the Hyde Park grocery situation? If you’ve been following so much as the everGreen, you probably know why the Co-Op Market has closed its automatic doors for good, that soon a Treasure Island location will replace it, and what deeper issues Hyde Park’s little game... »
To the Rescue: Just in time to fill the grocery void, Hyde Park Produce will finally open its new doors
Recent events in the Hyde Park grocery situation have cast a shadow of destitution over the appetites of many of the area’s residents. Because the Co-op on 55th Street, Hyde Park’s major grocer, is scheduled for departure on the January 28 and has stopped carrying perishable inventory, its customers have unwillingly been converted into... »
