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# After 45 Years, Eastern Market Seafood Will Close
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/after-45-years-eastern-market-seafood-will-close/
- Published: 2020-02-16T21:43:55.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-25T22:31:33.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: Eastern Market, #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #admin

Eastern Market continues to change as another long-time establishment is closing shop.

Eastern Market Seafood at 2456 Market Street in Detroit will close February 29, 2020, [according to their social media.](https://www.facebook.com/112280818835356/photos/rpp.112280818835356/2863754463687964/?type=3&theater)

The reason for the closure is owner John Janevski is retiring. He sold the building to Sanford Nelson’s FIRM Real Estate after a year of trying to find a buyer.

The shop served both wholesale and over the counter seafood and sausage sandwiches, and up until now has been a place where you can leave full spending less than $10\. 

A new, 5,000 square foot seafood shop is planned to take its place after a renovation is done to bring the structure up to modern safety and building code standards. I’m told the renovation cannot be done with a tenant in place. 

The second story hasn’t been used for 40 years. The plans are to turn it into food production and event space.

Sanford Nelson has acquired a bunch of properties in the popularly known core of Eastern Market. [Here’s a list of Eastern Market of controversial closures from Curbed.](https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/4/26/18518541/sanford-nelson-eastern-market-russell-street-deli?ref=dailydetroit.com)

**Go Deeper:** Last year we had a conversation with the head of the nonprofit Eastern Market Partnership, Dan Carmody about the soul of Eastern Market on our podcast. [He shared that although everyone knows the Saturday market and the retail, the wholesale businesses few think about are almost all of the 2,500 or so jobs in the market.](http://www.dailydetroit.com/2019/05/30/the-soul-of-eastern-market-with-dan-carmody/) He has a goal of getting that up to 5,000\.