Spinelli’s opening 2nd deli in longtime Congress Park market

When Jake Riederer shut down his pandemic-era pop-up, Open Sandwiches, last year, he was ready to move on from the restaurant industry to a new kind of business.

“My wife and I started really thinking about the neighborhood market industry and loved the idea of opening in spots with food deserts or just revitalizing little neighborhood markets,” he said.

Their first opportunity was very close to home.

John Moutzouris, who bought Spinelli’s Market, 4621 E. 23rd Ave., from owners Jerry and Mary Ellen Spinelli in 2014, offered to sell half of the Park Hill neighborhood Italian market and deli to Riederer and his wife, Cecelia Jones. And it just...