It’s been 36 years since the West Boulevard community had a neighborhood grocery store.

On Saturday, the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition held a community mixer to celebrate progress in its quest to launch Three Sisters Market, a community-owned grocery cooperative.

Elliott Royal, executive director of the coalition, said designs have been submitted for the $15 million project, which could break ground early in 2026.

The market has also signed up nearly 500 “member-owners”—people who pay a one-time fee of $100 and will get to vote on who sits on the market’s board of directors.

“Every day is something beautiful,” Royal told QCity Metro. “Four hundred and eighty members within the last year is kinda magical. Our goal is a thousand members by the time we open, and we’re definitely o

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