PITTSBURG – With financial assistance provided by the city, Cielo Supermarket will come to Highland Square Shopping Center next summer in an effort to provide relief to nearby residents who have been left without a neighborhood grocery store since 2019.

The family-owned business is expected to occupy about half of the 58,000-square-foot commercial space that has been vacant for the past six years since the closure of Food Source.

Cielo will be the city’s seventh grocery store, alongside WinCo Foods, Cardenas Market, Island Pacific Supermarket, FoodsCo, Safeway, and Sprouts Farmers Market.

In its bid to assist the development of the project, the city has agreed to offer an incentive package totaling $120,000.

The Pittsburg City Council on Monday unanimously approved the effort, which in

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