Fresh Market on HWY 280 closing after two decades

ByPat Byington
LAST UPDATED07/10/24

Reviewed by: Nathan Watson

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Fresh Market 280 — Inverness Village Fresh Market is closing in August 2024. (Nathan Watson / Bham Now)

The popular specialty grocery store Fresh Market is closing its Inverness Village location, Bham Now has confirmed.

Located at 4740 U.S Highway 280, the store plans to shut down in August.

The Inverness store opened twenty years ago in 2004. Its departure leaves the Birmingham metro area with only one Fresh Market location which is near the former Brookwood Mall in Homewood. Statewide there are Fresh Market locations in Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Daphne, Montgomery and Huntsville.

HWY 280 corridor continues to evolve

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Retail along the Highway 280 corridor continues to evolve. Over the past 1-3 years several prominent restaurants and stores have closed including:

Are you going to miss Fresh Market’s fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, deli items and wide selection of cheeses and wines?

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Pat Byington

Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the creation of Alabama's Forever Wild program, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Dugger Mountain Wilderness, preservation of special places throughout the East through the Wilderness Society and the strengthening (making more stringent) the state of Alabama's cancer risk and mercury standards.