The Story Behind Saving Mott's Market

As you may have heard, Mott’s Market (at 233 12th Street SE) went up for sale earlier this year after providing groceries to residents of Capitol Hill for over a century. The risk of losing the market to residential development was high, so a group of Capitol Hill neighbors purchased the property and will renovate it. The bottom floor will remain a corner market and the top floor will continue to be an apartment rental.

Find out more about the role of corner stores in maintaining a walkable community and get the inside scoop on how a group of more than 50 neighbors bought a building to save their market. And be ready with your suggestions for what you think would make the new Mott's Market the best corner market in the city.