Downtown Las Vegas will lose one of its staple grocery stores when White Cross Market closes this week. The store is currently having a 50-percent-off liquidation sale on all merchandise.

After two years under the ownership of Bells Market’s Jimmy Shoshani, White Cross Market will close on Tuesday, according to deli manager Karole Denning. Shoshani, who also owns a Cousins Maine Lobster truck franchise, declined to comment on the store’s closing. Previously a pharmacy, the Downtown landmark reopened in July 2013, and featured a deli and produce section, but was best known for its abundant selection of craft beer and wine.

Inside the same building in the space adjacent to the shuttering market (which currently houses the vacant Myers Market), a new tavern, brewery and restaurant project has been proposed. “The proposed Tavern-Limited Establishment would occupy the remaining portion of the building, which totals 21,890 square feet of interior space,” states a public-planning report. In a justification letter written in August to the City of Las Vegas Planning Department, the new occupant is tentatively named So.Down Food District, a “global street market that specializes in refined street food.” According to the letter, So.Down would also feature a brewery, a craft cocktail and wine bar and a reservation-only Japanese sake speakeasy. And the building would be renovated to feature nine different food kitchens, a coffee shop, juice bar and 12 smaller “pushcart” vendors for retail space.

“It hasn’t been finalized, but it shouldn’t have affected White Cross Market or the café because what we're doing is at [Myers Market],” says an anonymous representative for the project. “I don’t know anything about [White Cross]. I know what we’re proposing wouldn’t have affected them.”

Nonetheless, the market is on its way out (Denning says the liquidation sale started December 12 and the store will close once all merchandise has been sold). As for greasy-spoon favorite Vickie’s Diner (formerly Tiffany’s) inside White Cross, Denning says the attached restaurant will stay open. “She’s not part of us at all. As far as I know, she’s staying.”

This story has been updated from an earlier version.