‘Peach Market’ hopes to address Jackson’s ‘food desert’ downtown, owner says
Updated Jan 10, 2021;
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JACKSON, MI It’s taken nearly six years of research, grant proposals and renovations, but Andrew Kokas hopes to finally open an urban grocery store in downtown Jackson this year, addressing a “food desert” at the center of the city.
“Peach Market,” a 7,000-square-foot grocery with fresh produce, a coffee and liquor bar, deli, prepared foods and more intends to open at the end of spring 2021, said Kokas, who owns and is developing the former Evanoff’s Food and Cocktails building with his wife, Yizhuo “Olivia” Liang.
Supply holding back Jackson County COVID-19 vaccination efforts, health department says
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
Bundles of syringes are prepared - one for each of six doses in a vaccine vial - as Michigan Medicine healthcare workers administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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JACKSON, MI The state is moving to the next phase of COVID-19 vaccination, but Jackson County still has people in the first phase yet to receive the vaccine, health department officials said.