The Brighton Grocery was a grocery store and food market located at 4202 Huntsville Avenue in Brighton, Alabama which was operated by Mohamed Bobuk and his brother. (Ref: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Brighton_Grocery)
According to dandb.com, Brighton Grocery was founded in 1994 and earned $240,000 in annual revenue. Brighton Grocery employed 3 people. Sam Famji was one of there employees. (Ref: https://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/brightongrocery-brighton-al-26447748.html)
Brighton Grocery was renamed to Osker Convinin, LLC during the summer of 2013. The nature of business was a convenience store. (Ref: https://al.ltddir.com/companies/osker-convinin-llc/)
Brighton Grocery was destroyed by fire on the morning of November 15, 2013. 80% of the brick structure has perished during the morning fire. (Ref: The Birmingham News, "Morning fire destroys Brighton Grocery: "Everything is gone," owner says." , November 15, 2013.)
Mohamed Bobuk was on his way to work when he spotted smoke billowing over Brighton on and early Friday morning. He discovered Brighton Grocery on Huntsville Avenue was burning in flames of fire at about 5:30 AM in the morning. Brighton police officer Elizabeth Sturdivant said police received an alarm saying there was smoke coming from the corner store. It was unclear how the fire got started. Luckily no one was in the store at the time. (Ref: https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/11/morning_fire_destroys_brighton.html)
Most of the building had burned and collapsed during the fire of course. The roof collapsed and only a brick shell of the store remained after the fire. (Ref: https://www.wbrc.com/story/23978546/brighton-grocery-store-a-total-loss-after-fire/)
Brighton Grocery was located at 4202 Huntsville Avenue, Brighton, Alabama, US 35020. Their phone number were 205-428-0432 and 205-426-3701.
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