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Family-run Market To Close As Casino Comes To The Neighborhood

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published March 4, 2015 at 5:28 PM EST
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno presents the Key to The City to Filomena Bruschi, her husband John, and Theresa D'Angelantonio. The sisters are closing the family-run Albano's Market after 73 years in Springfield's South End neighborhood. A developer has bought the store. The MGM casino is being built nearby.
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Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno presents the Key to The City to Filomena Bruschi, her husband John, and Theresa D'Angelantonio. The sisters are closing the family-run Albano's Market after 73 years in Springfield's South End neighborhood. A developer has bought the store. The MGM casino is being built nearby.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno presents the Key to The City to Filomena Bruschi, her husband John, and Theresa D'Angelantonio. The sisters are closing the family-run Albano's Market after 73 years in Springfield's South End neighborhood. A developer has bought the store. The MGM casino is being built nearby.
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Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno presents the Key to The City to Filomena Bruschi, her husband John, and Theresa D'Angelantonio. The sisters are closing the family-run Albano's Market after 73 years in Springfield's South End neighborhood. A developer has bought the store. The MGM casino is being built nearby.

A neighborhood market that would be in the shadow of the MGM Springfield casino is closing after 73 years.

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno who has been coming to Albano’s Market since he was a boy brought the Key to The City and a proclamation Wednesday to honor its owners as pillars of the South End Italian-American community.  Filomena Bruschi and her sister Theresa D’Angelantonio took over the small business from their parents in 1942 and are now retiring after accepting an offer to sell to a developer.

" I spoke to Domenic and said we want to leave very quietly, but I guess we are not going to leave quietly," said Bruschi with a laugh  as the tiny store filled with well wishers Wednesday.

The sisters were known in the neighborhood for their generosity to people in need.  The market was famous for frozen Italian lemonade made from a secret family recipe.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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