Steve Thurston (2021)
Jane Sutton stands in Farmstead Flatbread, her restaurant that closed on Saturday. It's the last of the Sutton Marketplace property in Queensbury to be sold.
Farmstead Flatbread, the farm-to-table pizza and beer establishment, and also the last remaining piece of the Sutton’s Marketplace property just south of the Great Escape in Queensbury, closed for good Saturday and the building is about to be sold.
Owner Jane Sutton — the daughter of Donna Sutton and the late Steve Sutton — said, “The past couple of weeks have been very emotional as you can imagine.”
When they put the property on sale a few months ago, they hoped to find a buyer who would keep them on as a tenant, but that has not worked out.
“Running a restaurant requires a lot of work as it is, and realistically maintaining a property of our size takes tremendous effort,” she said. She has enlisted the help of her brother, sister and fiancé.
“My family and my fiancé have helped every day while working their full time jobs. It was starting to get exhausting for everyone,” she said.
“The hardest part is saying goodbye to my ‘home.’ That’s almost harder than closing the restaurant. It’s like moving out of your childhood house for the last time. There are parts of my dad and grandfather there that I can’t take with me. All the great time I spent with my mother, creating, dreaming up ideas, and family dinners, to raising my child there. Anyone that is a loyal customer knows my daughter Mylah.”
Sutton said when COVID first hit in 2020, they thought it would be a short time before things returned to normal, but normal has not returned. She said she is sad selling the last piece of the sprawling Sutton Marketplace property but “life is too short” and the property is too much to handle.
They expect to close on the building in the coming weeks. She declined to name the prospective buyer. The building is listed for sale for $1.1-million.
The night before Halloween was the final night of Farmstead Flatbread, “and the love that showed up was truly amazing. The support we have received over the years and especially the last 18 months has been remarkable.
“When Farmstead Flatbread opened, my mission was to create a space that would bring the community together for any occasion, a place that was full of experiences not just pizza, and mostly an environment that was welcoming to all,” she said. “I believe we achieved that.”