KALAMAZOO, MI - Just Good Food Deli & Market is looking for a new home.

But a deadline for finding one before it has to relocate from its longtime location inside the Rose Street Market is looming as the business enters its busiest time of year.

"We looked at a building yesterday," Linda Pregitzer, co-owner of the business said Wednesday. But she said she sees no viable new prospects on the horizon.

She said she and business partner Olinda Sandoval have been asked to relocate from the ground- and basement-level spaces they lease at 303 N. Rose St. by the end of October.

They have been using the space since they opened their business 29 years ago.

Pregitzer said Just Good Food has been searching for a new location, primarily in the downtown area, for several months, and has been shown some prospective locations by PlazaCorp Realty Advisors. But those locations would required months of renovations.

"We can't just close down and start up a year from now," Pregitzer said. "What are we supposed to do in the meantime?"

She said she and her partner don't have the money to fund a major renovation project and they don't have the resources to shut down for months.

It is looking for suitable space that is more ready to use.

Without that, she and Sandoval hope to get an extension from building manager PlazaCorp to stay at Rose Street Market through the end of the year. That would allow the business to operate during the party-filled holiday catering season.

It would allow it time to generate more revenue and sell off equipment in order to satisfy business debts and hopefully go out of business unscathed, Pregitzer said.

There has been no response to requests for comment from PlazaCorp Realty Advisors, which bought Rose Street Market in June of 2015.

Of the last location she checked, Pregitzer said, "It was not the best location" and it would take at least $600,000 to renovate.

She said the business ideally needs 8,000 to 10,000 square feet of space to accommodate a kitchen, a banquet room and storage.

"When they told us we had to be out in October, we couldn't book parities that wanted to book," Pregitzer said. "So it's questionable how many parties we will pick up."

She said, "We kind of would like to finish out the year to give us more time to plan our exit."

Just Good Food is a restaurant and catering business that has thrived in downtown Kalamazoo for 29 years. It was started by Pregitzer and Sandoval when neither had much experience in the restaurant of catering business. It has continued with a delicatessen on the lower level of the Rose Street Market and about 4,000 square feet of banquet space on the ground level that has been a location for hundreds of weddings, proms, dinners and other events over the years.

The business employs seven full-time and 15 part-time workers, not include Sandoval and Pregitzer. In busier times, it has employed 12 to 13 full-time workers and up to 20 part-time workers when catering work rises.

About 75 percent of its business is catering. Pregitzer said about 90 percent of that catering work is done in-house at the Rose Street Market.

Plans for the redevelopment of the Rose Street Market building have not been announced by PlazaCorp.

Tenants of the building were asked to relocated and all but Just Good Food did so by June of this year.