Salem’s Market in the Hill District closes…but for how long?

KAMRYN DELOUVPRE, and her son, Dion, 4. Delouvpre told the Courier that with Salem’s Market being so close to her home in the Hill District, it’s sad that the store is closing, even if it’s only temporary. (Photo by Rob Taylor Jr.) More questions than answers as community left in limbo & Even during a windy snow squall in the middle of a Sunday afternoon in the Hill District, where it could have been just as easy to stay at home, there they were, African American men, women and children braving the frigid cold to shop at the only grocery store in the neighborhood, Salem’s Market. Even when the entire neighborhood knew that Salem’s Market in the Hill District, 1850 Centre Ave., was closing at 7 p.m. that Sunday evening, Feb. 16, possibly never to open again, for some reason, it didn’t deter people like Neal Sims, Roydi Suazo, Kamryn& Delouvpre and her son, Dion (and his toy truck), or Carolyn Moye. Fanfare was out of this world on Nov. 17, 2021, when Salem’s Market hosted a meet-and-greet of sorts inside the Centre Avenue location, as a month earlier, Salem’s was selected over three other applicants to open a new...