Dia’s Market, a specialty grocery store and deli on Justin Lane, will close at the end of November, according to an Instagram post from the business.
The details
The family-owned market opened in June 2016, according to the post, as previously reported by Community Impact. The market sells local and imported groceries, including coffee and pastries, fresh produce, dairy, frozen foods, beer and wine, chocolate, and breakfast and lunch deli sandwiches, according to its website.
What's happening
Owner David Hopper wrote in the post that customer traffic continues to slow and the commercial and residential development he expected around the store never came.
“Renewing our lease unfortunately just doesn’t make economic sense,” Hopper wrote.
The backstory
Hopper and his wife, Amanda, moved to Austin in 2007 and signed a lease at 812 Justin Lane in 2014, according to the post. Hopper led the build-out of the space. The name was his mother’s idea, he wrote. It nods to the couple’s three children, Dylan, Isobel and Alexander, and to “día,” the Spanish word for “day,” because the market would be open all day, every day.
