Italian market to open in former downtown Waterville food co-op space
The former downtown Waterville storefront of Barrels Community Market, which closed earlier this summer, is set to become a “high-end Italian market,” the Morning Sentinel reported Monday.
The market is expected to open in December. It is a venture between Nick Isgro, mayor of Waterville and a controller at Skowhegan Savings Bank, and Candace and Tom Savinelli, owners of an Italian bakery and deli next door, the paper reported.
Barrels Community Market, a store is operated by the Waterville Food Cooperative, announced in August it had closed for restructuring, but the cooperative's board of directors notified members in September that the store wouldn’t reopen as planned and that the cooperative itself might dissolve.
David Shipman, president of the Waterville Food Cooperative, told the paper that the store closed because it didn’t develop enough customers to support it.
The Savinellis’ Italian bakery and deli, Holy Cannoli, opened in downtown Waterville three years ago and moved to the location at 72 Main St. a year later.
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