Bell Market on 24th Street may be sold, Mollie Stone's rumored to be coming

Another item in the Noe Valley Voice covers the upcoming sale of Bell Market on 24th Street and some of the potential suitors for the site & lease. Among the possibilities is Mollie Stone's.

"Sources told the Voice that Mollie Stone's, a fashionable boutique that started 10 years ago as a natural foods and organic food market in Mill Valley, has been in talks with Ralphs to take over the Bell location on 24th Street."

"If a supermarket does not move into the Bell site, Noe Valley residents would have to go outside the neighborhood to shop. Three smaller stores that once served Noe Valley have closed their doors: Real Food Company shut down its 24th Street operation two years ago on Labor Day weekend, and Mikeytom Market also folded its Church Street operation in the summer of 2003. For a decade or so until the mid-1980s, Bell operated a second Noe Valley branch at 1333 Castro Street. The store, known affectionately as "Little Bell," is now a Walgreen's drugstore."

As of January 2005, Mollie Stone's has also taken over the Tower Market at the top of Twin Peaks/Portola and updated their food offerings.