We can mark the milestone of reaching over 50% Trade Area Zip Code Membership! We are more than 3,200 community member-owners strong.
Things are really picking up momentum now as we expand our Gem City Market team! We’re looking for dedicated, community-oriented servant leaders to grow with us and achieve our mission: To serve, engage, and empower our neighborhoods by providing affordable, high quality food in a clean and welcoming environment that is…Read More
More photos of the materials and supplies being transformed into our grocery co-op!
Learn about the efforts to bring Play into our outdoor spaces as Play On Purpose presents activities and themes for our outdoor play area. Replay of our online Community Meeting on August 27th is still up online! www.crowdcast.io/e/GCM-August-27
We have over 2,766 Community-Owners. 1,277 reside within the Trade Area Zip Codes, and 193 of those are $10 Memberships.
Our architect Matt Sauer visits the site regularly and sends photos on . . . so much action on the site!
Students from both Edison School and Dayton Leadership academy were asked to envision a trip to the market or what they think a grocery should look like: the people or aisles, the produce, or employees. With three drawings from both schools, alongside photography from Jennings, artwork from Oyeyemi, and architectural…Read More
We have over 2,700 Community-Owners. 1,227 reside within the Trade Area Zip Codes, and 182 of those are $10 Memberships.
We can see the building start to take on shape and form with the steel being placed!
Our 2019-2020 Annual Report went out to Member-Owners in July! If you expected to receive it and haven’t seen it, check your spam or promotions filters and tabs. . .
Click to watch: The walls to the front (with the wood forms) are the retaining walls for the raised outside deck area. The flat pours (concrete level with the ground) are the footers. There is another area at the rear of the lot that is the retaining wall for the…Read More
Construction teams have started on pouring the footers and retaining walls for Gem City Market. Matt Sauer caught a snapshot of a drain basin and catch being poured in the future parking lot!
The Board has voted to postpone the Annual Members Meeting until such time as it is safe to gather publicly in groups; potentially late summer or early autumn. While physically distancing amid COVID-19 presents challenges for movement building, we are committed building relationships between member-owners, and transparently sharing project information.…Read More
In early March 2020, a group of Gem City Market Member-Owners attended the Up & Coming Food Co-op Conference, in Madison Wisconsin. Up & Coming attracts start-up organizing groups, board members, and co-op staff from around the country to learn and grow together. This year the conference was in Madison, WI on…Read More
We have over 2,400 Community-Owners. 1,054 reside within the Trade Area, and 125 of those are $10 Memberships.
Our financing has been finalized! With the NMTC transaction completed, grading the site and other earthwork will commence after the turn of the year. Click item title to go to a letter from Lela Klein, Executive Director of CO-OP Dayton.
Site work is moving forward. The construction of essential businesses like grocery stores is allowed during the stay-at-home order. Our General Contractor WISE Construction is taking necessary precautions for the health of all workers on the site, including installing additional hand-washing stations on-site, and confirming the absence of symptoms when…Read More
We transitioned an appointed board seat to our third Community Elected Board Seat. Member and Trade Area resident Shavelta Harding was voted in. Jule Rastiskis, who held an appointed board seat stepped down. This rounds out the board to 9 members. The membership also voted yes on whether to pursue…Read More
Premier Health has contributed funds allowing Gem City Market to offer $50 Community-Owner Membership Shares to individuals living in the market neighborhood zip codes of: 45402, 05, 06, 16, 17, 26. We have a goal of 1,800 Trade Area Members by open. Before the match was announced, our Trade Area…Read More
Subcontractor Tallview Palladium demolished the old McCallister’s Art Supply building that stood on the 300-400 block of Salem where Gem City Market will be built.
The winning design was chosen by a panel of judges and was submitted by local textile artist and co-op enthusiast Rachel Dominguez-Benner.
We’ve traveled a long way together on our way to opening our co-op! Gem City Market began as a big idea… and we had a logo that reflected that. Now we’re ready to embark on a whole new phase of our journey, so we need a bold new identity to…Read More
We have a goal of welcoming 600 new $10 Members living in our Trade Area (zip codes 45402, 05, 06, 16, 17, 26) before opening our doors. You can support this goal by joining our team as we get out knocking on doors to talk with residents about the new…Read More
We welcomed hundreds of members and supporters to celebrate with us at the future site of Gem City Market with a Block Party in 2018.
We estimate 500 – 700 members and supporters joined us for our Ceremonial Community Groundbreaking. Burgers were grilled, booths were visited, connections were made. We collected nearly 50 grocery receipts, the best way to find out what you really want to buy and cook, to help us stock our shelves…Read More
One feature making Gem City Market more than a grocery store will be the teaching kitchen located within the store. Programming will come from community partners including Kettering Health Network.