Bay Mission Market Gone?

The Bay Mission Market (at the corner of Bay and Mission of course) has long been a Santa Cruz fixture albeit a funky one. I remember a newspaper article about it when I was a student in the late seventies. The reporter had found products on their shelves from the early sixties containing cyclamates which had been banned 15-20 before.

I have wondered how it has stayed in business so long. the past few years it seems mostly to subsist on alcohol sales from the look of the ads that were in the window.

Walking by it to the bus stop this morning I saw this sign in the window. The insides are pretty much gutted.

I wonder if they are just remodeling, putting it up for lease or turning it into another type of business entirely. It has always seemed to me much too valuable a piece of real estate to let deteriorate the way it has. If it was a real grocery store it would be very convenient for UC students to pop down and buy groceries rather than heading all the way into town. I know there has been a shopper shuttle that goes down to Mission Safeway but this would be an easy straight shot down Bay via bus or car and would also be easier for newbies to find.