Co-op News
Happy New Year, Co-op Community! And so long, 2020 🙂 We’ve had a wild ride on so many fronts, but despite the challenges our Co-op Community is stronger than ever and we’re ready … 473 New Owners, a Record! 1,610 Owners Overall! $1.5M in Interest-Paying Owner Loans, 75% of our $2M Campaign Goal! We Hired…
Read More…Announcing the Co-op Winter Wellness Series! FREE Online Tai Chi, Yoga, Gardening & More from Our Local Business Partners! Please join us for Co-op Winter Wellness, Free Online Wellness Classes all winter long thanks to our awesome local business partners. Stay healthy, balanced and connected as we charge our way through to spring! Here’s the…
Read More…10 Potential Co-op Sites Are In the Works Here’s the Latest on Our Search for Our Grocery Store’s Future Home … We have 5 sites we are actively considering making offers on and another 5 backup sites. None of the sites is perfect, but each active target comes close to our ideal specifications (see below).…
Read More…Co-op Owners, please welcome our community-owned grocery store’s General Manager Sam McCormick! Sam will join us at this Sunday’s 2020 Annual Owners Meeting, 2-3PM on Zoom 🙂 *The Zoom access link has been emailed to all Owners. If you did not receive that link, please e-mail info@assabetmarket.coop. “I’m thrilled to be joining you as the…
Read More…Dear Co-op Community, I’m reaching out to you personally today because we have a lot to report. It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster ride over here at Assabet Co-op Market. These are exciting times. Every day, we are a step closer to the reality of our community owned grocery store. With our annual meeting…
Read More…We have agreed to purchase 2 Powder Mill Road in Maynard, the future home of our locally sourced, community-owned grocery store! This riverside property is the former location of Suburban Glass & Mirror and will allow us to build a beautiful cooperative grocery store with almost 6,000 square feet of retail space, 35 parking spaces,…
Read More…It’s gettin real now! We’ll be announcing our Maynard site in the next few weeks – in the meantime, we’re psyched to share our first store site rendering! This is a rough sketch showing the footprint of the building and parking. Details such as the roof line may change, and we’ll have our final architect’s…
Read More…Co-op Owners and Supporters, It’s Time … Should all go well, we will announce the Maynard location of our locally sourced, community-owned grocery store in the next few weeks! And yes, we will OWN our grocery store property! Here’s what this means for ALL of us … Owners, Our Capital Campaign is Coming! The Owner…
Read More…Dear Co-op Owners and Supporters, The Board of the Assabet Village Co-op Market would like to add our voice to the chorus of others and say: Black Lives Matter. Full Stop. As your elected leaders, we recognize that there is work for us to do. So please consider this only the first of what will…
Read More…We’ll keep this June update short and very sweet. Negotiations on the potential site for our locally sourced, community-owned grocery store are making progress in Maynard. We’re awaiting a number of inspections, reports, and drawings before we’ll know it’s a done deal or not, but should all go well, we hope to announce our location…
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