Residents, workers and visitors to downtown Lansing now have a spot to pick up everyday food, drinks and household products at a new artisanal convenience store in the
Lansing City Market.
Opening just before the New Year,
Iggy's In Convenience offers beer, wine, fresh produce, milk, eggs, bread, canned goods, household cleaning products, and other popular items found in a pantry, refrigerator or kitchen cupboard. About 50 percent of the store is devoted to produce like apples, oranges, grapefruit, bananas, watermelon, cantaloupe, lemons and limes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and potatoes. Items populating the remaining space in the 1,000-foot store include Michigan-made products like craft beer, wines and soda pops, popcorn, honey, and Detroit-made mustard and pickled asparagus.
"If we get requests from our neighbors, we try to carry those things too," say owner Igor Jurkovic. "Business is increasing every day. We're on the right path."
Jurkovic saw the need for the convenience store after having worked in the downtown district for a decade or more. The East Side resident keeps a busy schedule running the kitchen at
The Exchange and
Mediteran Café and Catering--a small restaurant on N. Washington Square that he opened in 2015.
Iggy's In Convenience is not Jurkovic's first experience with the Lansing City Market. For the past year, he has been supplying fresh produce to the Waterfront Bar and Grill—a vendor in close proximity to Jurkovic's store on the west side of the market. The store employs three people.
"We're just going to see where it takes us," says Jurkovic of Iggy's In Convenience. "This is a little side thing that we're doing."
Source: Igor Jurkovic, Owner, Iggy's In Convenience
Writer: Ann Kammerer, News Editor
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