Emily Opila / The Morning Call – People living in center city Allentown’s Seventh Street neighborhood will soon have another alternative to hiking to the suburbs for milk and bread.

Supremo Food Market, a 25,000-square-foot grocery store, is set to open this fall in the long-vacant former Sears building, a white elephant that has troubled community organizers in the newly bustling Seventh Street business district for several years.

The store will offer a variety of fresh produce catering to the area’s Hispanic residents and hire locals for up to 80 full- and part-time jobs, owner Eddie Trujillo said this week.