From late June 2025 until this September, downtown Georgetown had no grocery store open. The Save A Lot at 217 N. Broadway reopened on Sept. 2, 2026, after more than fourteen months closed. In the same stretch, East Main Street gained a wine tasting room in a new space and a custom hat shop, and a music and instrument repair shop has a ribbon cutting on the calendar. Downtown can once again cover a full errand run, from milk to a wine flight to a fitted hat. The new shops keep shorter weeks than the grocery, though, so the most of downtown is open from Wednesday through Saturday.
The Broadway Store That Was Dark Since Summer 2025
The Save A Lot closed after a vehicle crashed into the building's façade on June 23, 2025. Anchor Foods, which owns several Central Kentucky Save A Lot stores, used the closure to renovate. According to the company, the interior now has new flooring, paint, refrigeration and signage, plus what it calls an "easy-to-shop footprint" for grocery essentials, fresh meat and produce.
There are two dates floating around. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that the store opened Sept. 2. Save A Lot's own announcement, dated Sept. 10, 2026, declared the store "officially re-open." The first is the day the doors opened. The second is the day the company announced it.
The store has a long history on Broadway. Dustin Clemons, a supervisor with Anchor Foods, gave the Herald-Leader this statement:
"We've been a part of the Georgetown community since 1995 and are grateful to be able to once again serve our neighbors with fresh, affordable, high-quality foods."
The detail that matters most for planning is the schedule. The Broadway store is open seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Every other new downtown business in this post keeps a shorter week. The grocery is the only one you can count on any day, at almost any hour.
East Main Added Three Shops in About Six Weeks
The grocery reopened in early September, and East Main's run of ribbon cuttings started about two weeks later and stretches into late October. None of the three is a chain, and each one fills a niche downtown didn't have covered.
The Wine Project, 155 E. Main St. The Georgetown/Scott County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on Sept. 16, 2026, to celebrate the opening of "The Wine Project's new Main St. location." The shop calls itself a craft-wine boutique and tasting room. It sells bottles chosen by the staff and pours by the glass, in four-pour flights, or through staff-served or self-serve tastings. John and Alicia Olsen own it. Kentucky Tourism's undated directory listing still gives its address as 100 S. Broadway, which looks like the earlier home, but the shop's own website now lists 155 E. Main. The shop hasn't said publicly why it moved, and a Sept. 10 post mentioned only "big changes" and a "new space."
Great Crossing Hat Co. & Mercantile, 47 E. Main St. FOX 56 reported that the shop held its official ribbon cutting on Sept. 17. The Chamber's event listing shows Sept. 10, so the two sources don't agree on the date. Every hat is shaped by hand for the person buying it. The designers told FOX 56, "Every hat is custom-shaped and designed just for you. From western classics to trucker caps, this is your one-stop shop for getting something stylish on the top of your noggin!" The same week, its designers were out shaping hats at the Georgetown-Scott County Chamber Golf Outing.
Sexton's Music & Rockin' Repair, 137 E. Main St., Suite C. This one hasn't had its ribbon cutting yet. The Chamber has scheduled it for Saturday, Oct. 24, at noon, and describes the business as a music and instrument repair shop. Its regular hours haven't been published.
Where the Hours Line Up
All three schedules come from each business's own posting or from local news. When you put them side by side, downtown's week has a clear shape.
| Business | Address | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed–Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Save A Lot | 217 N. Broadway | 8–8 | 8–8 | 8–8 | 8–8 | 8–8 | 8–8 |
| The Wine Project | 155 E. Main | Closed | Closed | 11–6 | 11–6 | 11–7 | 10–7 |
| Great Crossing Hat Co. | 47 E. Main | Closed | Closed | Closed | 11–7 | 11–7 | 11–7 |
| Sexton's Music & Rockin' Repair | 137 E. Main, Ste C | Not yet posted |
From Wednesday through Saturday, all three businesses with posted hours are open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, both East Main shops stay open until 7. Saturday is the longest day, because The Wine Project opens at 10 a.m. On Tuesday, the wine shop and the grocery are open but the hat shop isn't. On Sunday and Monday, the Broadway Save A Lot is the only one of these stores open.
Before September, the grocery wasn't part of the picture at all. The tasting room and hat shop would have had the midweek-to-Saturday window to themselves, and any errand run that included groceries meant leaving downtown. With the Broadway store open again, a Wednesday lunch hour or a Saturday afternoon can include everything on the table above without driving to another part of town.
Building a Saturday Around What's Open
Here's one way to fit all of it into a Saturday, in an order that works with each shop's hours:
- 10 a.m., The Wine Project. It's the first of the East Main shops to open on Saturdays. A four-pour flight is a good way to try several wines before you buy a bottle.
- 11 a.m., Great Crossing Hat Co. Its doors open at 11. A custom-shaped hat is fitted to you, so give yourself time for that rather than treating it as a quick in-and-out.
- Anytime before 8 p.m., Save A Lot on Broadway. Pick up groceries last so the cold items go straight home. The store sells USDA-inspected meat cut fresh in store, plus produce and everyday staples.
On Oct. 24, there's one more stop. Sexton's ribbon cutting at 137 E. Main falls at noon, in the middle of that same window.
What's Still Coming to the Downtown Blocks
The Chamber calendar shows more downtown activity this month. A ribbon cutting for Damon Law Office at 130 N. Hamilton St. is set for Thursday, Oct. 8, at noon. The listing doesn't say whether that marks a new office or a move. Sexton's follows on Oct. 24. After that, the instrument repair shop's regular schedule is the one piece of the table above still missing. Once it's posted, it will show whether the shop keeps the same Wednesday-to-Saturday week as its East Main neighbors or adds a day the others don't cover.
There are still some open questions. Nobody has said publicly why The Wine Project left Broadway for Main Street. The Chamber and FOX 56 still disagree on the hat shop's ribbon-cutting date. The Chamber calendar is the main record of these openings, and it isn't a complete list of every downtown business that opened, moved or closed this year. What is confirmed is that the grocery is back, two new shops are open on East Main, and a third has a date.
If you live near downtown, the reopened Broadway grocery and a fuller East Main make everyday life easier, and both come up when a home goes on the market. If you're thinking about what being within reach of downtown Georgetown is worth for your next move, Jess Noto can walk you through how these blocks are changing. Let's Connect.
