Pete's Fresh Market opens East Garfield Park location

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new Pete's Fresh Market location has opened in the city's near West Side.

"Today you have 150 good paying jobs in the neighborhood, a grocery store people can feel is their own, and it anchors the community," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the store.

The 68,000 square-foot store, located at Madison and Western in East Garfield Park, opened to the public Wednesday morning.

The store cost more than $18 million to build.