Agland development takes root in Eaton

EATON – A most unlikely commercial real estate developer has proven successful in bringing a full-service grocer back to Eaton, a community that hasn’t had one since the closure of Mark’s Main Street Market two years ago.

Agland Inc., the Eaton-based agricultural cooperative whose board members saw fit to jump into the commercial development business, will proceed with other retail and office development on the eight-acre site adjacent to the Maplewood subdivision on the town’s southern edge.

“There was a lot of clamoring in town when Mark’s ceased to exist for something to be done,” Agland CEO Mitch Anderson said. “When our…