Sweet Beet Market reopens with community support after fire

By Sruthi Gopalakrishnan | Concord Monitor | February 26, 2025

Lauren Howard was at home, recovering from a cold, when she got the news that Sweet Beet Market and Café, the store she’d spent the last decade building, was on fire.

It was the last thing any business owner wants to hear.

“It was just shocking and concerning,” said Howard, the cofounder and director of operations at Sweet Beet. “I was very relieved when I learned more about what was going on and what had happened and how it was a very isolated incident.”