Jurgensen S Company

Jurgensen's, the upscale gourmet grocery chain whose stores were a fixture in many tony neighborhoods throughout California, has closed its Beverly Hills store to concentrate its energy and capital on building a Pasadena headquarters store, company officials said Tuesday. "The sales in Pasadena have tripled in the last three years, while the Beverly Hills sales were way off what we expected," said Kenneth McCormick, chairman of Ojai Capital, the partnership that owns the Jurgensen's markets.

Jurgensen's Market, a Los Angeles-area gourmet food grocer for nearly six decades, has closed its only remaining store but will maintain its adjacent cafe. The Pasadena store, long a fixture at Lake Avenue and California Boulevard, was closed because it was no longer financially viable, said officials at Ojai Capital, the Pasadena-based company that owns the business. The upscale grocery, which closed Saturday, will reopen Wednesday for a four-week liquidation sale.

Jurgensen's Market, a Los Angeles-area gourmet food grocer for nearly six decades, has closed its only remaining store but will maintain its adjacent cafe. The Pasadena store, long a fixture at Lake Avenue and California Boulevard, was closed because it was no longer financially viable, said officials at Ojai Capital, the Pasadena-based company that owns the business. The upscale grocery, which closed Saturday, will reopen Wednesday for a four-week liquidation sale.

Jurgensen's, the upscale gourmet grocery chain whose stores were a fixture in many tony neighborhoods throughout California, has closed its Beverly Hills store to concentrate its energy and capital on building a Pasadena headquarters store, company officials said Tuesday. "The sales in Pasadena have tripled in the last three years, while the Beverly Hills sales were way off what we expected," said Kenneth McCormick, chairman of Ojai Capital, the partnership that owns the Jurgensen's markets.