image description — Liquor World owner Chirag Patel stands in front of the newly opened deli. The store is located in the former Kmart plaza in North Adams.

Liquor World in North Adams Opens Deli

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
12:37PM / Monday, August 04, 2025Print Story | Email Story

Liquor World opened in the former V&V last year.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Liquor World and Market has opened up its deli section along with adding Krispy Krunchy Chicken to the store.

Chirag Patel has been the owner for a little over a year and was excited to bring in the deli and Krispy Krunchy chicken. When it first opened, he planned to focus on the alcohol portion before starting up the deli. He said he got many comments from customers asking when it would open.

"When we bought it, we wanted to go step by step. So we just, first year, focus just on our liquor side and the liquor section," he said. "Then we start working with the deli as the time goes. People asking about the deli, 'when you guys open, you guys doing something with the deli, and like that.'"

The deli had been in the plans since the prior entity, Steeple City Liquors Inc., better known as V&V, opened back in 2013. The deli counters and equipment was installed on righthand side of the store but never took off.

V&V closed abruptly in February 2024 as the plaza changed hands a couple times. First Hartford Realty, the former owner of the former Kmart plaza, had owned the liquor store since its opening in 2014. Mahakaleshwar LLC, doing business as Liquor World and Market, was approved for the license transfer last year.

Patel noted that the store has added a new walk-in beer freezer in a space formerly used for storage. He said store will continue to grow, one day hoping to add a Pizza Hut Pizza Express.

"Definitely we're going to grow more on our liquor side section. We're going to have more allocated bottles coming. We're going to have the more expensive wines and in the food section, we are thinking down the road for the Pizza Express," he said.

Patel says he hopes that customers like the deli. "We're hoping that everything goes well with them [customers], and we would love to help the community, too."

Krispy Krunchy Chicken is a national fried chicken chain that sells mainly in convenience stores and gas stations. The deli sells meats by the pound, lunch and breakfast sandwiches, burgers and quesadillas, some hot subs, sides, daily soups and fries.

The store is open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (deli until 7:30) daily except on Sunday from 10 to 7 (deli until 6). More information here.

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Affordable Housing Solutions Easy — and Complex

By John TownesSpecial to iBerkshires
12:15PM / Friday, May 29, 2026

This four-part series looks at the challenges in building affordable housing, and in May, Deep Dive will look at some solutions in Berkshire County. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

The overall effort to solve the national and local housing crisis is paradoxically as straightforward as a game of checkers, but as complex and baffling as a Rubik's Cube puzzle.

On a basic level, the issue is clear. It boils down to two fundamental problems: There is a shortage of housing in all categories and the costs of buying or renting a home have escalated beyond the incomes of many people.

But because there is no single cause or "silver bullet" solution, the array of initiatives to make housing more plentiful and affordable can seem like a baffling maze of agencies, priorities, policies, regulations, and complex mathematical formulas.

The issue can also cause controversies and misunderstandings.

And for those who are seeking to buy or rent a home, the shortage of affordable housing can be personally frustrating, confusing, and even frightening. For some, it can lead to homelessness.

Nevertheless, while individual affordable-housing policies and programs differ in specifics, most rely on a core of basic strategies to deal with the underlying causes.

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