Weiland's Market is changing hands in April after the current owners sell to two long time managers of the 63-year-old Clintonville grocery store.
Weiland's Market has been a neighborhood staple on Indianola Avenue since 1961, when co-founders George Weiland and John Williams first opened the store. Now, Williams' daughter Jennifer co-owns the store with Scott Bowman, but the two plan to sell to long time managers Daniel Phillips and Andy Russell on April 1.
The owners announced the change in a Facebook post on Tuesday and said they are selling the store to make time in their lives for a new chapter.
Williams and Bowman said since they bought the store from Williams' father they had a mission to be hands-on owners and prove one of the city’s few remaining independent grocers could not only survive but thrive.
The owners said Phillips and Russell want to make sure Weiland's sticks around long enough to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2061.
