Delaney’s Market closes in downtown Springfield; owners vow to try again as residential population grows

SPRINGFIELD — Restaurateur Peter Rosskothen and his group closed the Delaney’s Market location at 1365 Principal St. in November, however vow to convey again the quality-meals-to-go idea as soon as the downtown’s residential inhabitants has grown.

“We had been just a little forward of the curve with downtown,” staffers wrote on a poster in a window on the storefront. “There are wonderful issues occurring in Springfield, due to this fact we want we had waited a 12 months or two because the residential inhabitants additional develops. … We’re dedicated to attempting once more in a 12 months or two. We all know the idea works in suburban areas so downtown is only a matter of time.”

Rosskothen mentioned in a telephone interview he hates disappointing town and his clients.

“There have been individuals who supported us,” he mentioned. “Simply not sufficient to make it work.”

He mentioned he’d prefer to strive the store once more in a 12 months or so in the identical location.

“I really like the situation. We had been simply untimely,” he mentioned.

He mentioned the downtown employee he’d hoped would cease by to get a meal on the best way residence did develop into a buyer. as a substitute, these workers obtained of their vehicles and drove again nearer to residence earlier than getting dinner.

Delany’s Market is shifting ahead with plans to open one other location in Westfield, in a buying plaza on East Principal Road, later this month. The opening date there’s Dec. 18 and the workers and gear will transfer.

Rosskothen opened the primary Delaney’s market within the Longmeadow Outlets in 2016. Delaney’s Market opened at 2030 Boston Highway in Wilbraham in October.

The Principal Road location opened in June.

Rosskothen, a associate at The Log Cabin and Delaney Home, each in Holyoke, began the Delaney’s Market idea as a solution to convey restaurant-quality meals-to-go to small outlets in handy areas.

The outlets function meals from Rosskothen’s kitchen at The Log Cabin and bakery on the Delaney Home.

Dinners are priced at $eight to $10 every and the outlets supply a various number of 40 to 50 objects at anybody time. Entrees embrace a standard turkey dinner, beef stroganoff with noodles and Korean beef suggestions with peanut sauce. The outlets additionally supply desserts and a few small packaged meals objects.

The Principal Road location was beforehand occupied by Cafe Du Jour, in enterprise since 1995 and owned since 2009 by the Saleh household, earlier than it closed in January 2019.