The former Village Market store in South Haven won’t stand vacant thanks to plans from Senior Services of Van Buren County to turn it into a senior center. Director Diane Rigozzi tells WSJM News Senior Services was able to buy the $2.5 million building for $400,000 from the Murk family, amounting to a more than $2 million donation from the Murks. She says turning a grocery store into a senior center isn’t as difficult as you might imagine.
“Because a grocery store doesn’t have a lot of walls and internal structure, it was kind of a blank slate,” Rigozzi said.