When will Bell Market open?
May 8th, 2008 by Paul Leighton
Reader Kellee asks a question this morning I hear as much as any other around town: What’s up with Bell Market?
Bell’s is the Cabot Street food store that closed last May after 42 years in business. People apparently really miss having a downtown market.
Ken Patel of Lynnfield bought the building and had hoped to open by Christmas, then by May 1. But it still hasn’t happened.
We couldn’t reach Patel this morning, but Peter Sherin, whose family ran Bell’s for 32 years and sold the building to Patel, said Patel now hopes to open by the Fourth of July.
Patel has been slowed by a serious back problem, said Sherin, who is advising him.
“Providing the kind of store he wants to provide requires a lot of work,” Sherin said this morning. “I believe it will be a great place to shop when it does open. He knows people are waiting for the store.”
Sherin, who lives in Boston, is no longer involved financially in Bell’s — it will reopen as Beverly Market — but said it remains important to him after so many years in the family. His father, Ellsworth, opened the store in 1965.
“The only relationship I have is a longstanding love of Beverly and I would like a thriving food store that makes people glad it’s there,” Sherin said. “There’s a long history of that being an important place to shop in Beverly.”
