For years, the running joke about Beverly Hills has been that residents live in one of the prettiest villages in Oakland County and drive out of it for dinner. Birmingham for a special occasion. Royal Oak for a Tuesday. Detroit for pizza worth the trip.
That last one is about to stop being true.
The Market Fresh plaza is quietly becoming a destination corner
The shopping center at Southfield and 13 Mile has anchored the village for a generation, but until recently it functioned as a grocery run and not much else. The Karmo family, who run Market Fresh alongside their Market Square stores in Birmingham and West Bloomfield, are giving the entire property a facelift. The north end of the plaza has been carved into a nearly 3,600 square foot restaurant space, and Laith Karmo, the project manager, has said the rebuilt exterior will carry the same architectural language as Market Fresh itself.
The tenant is the reason locals are paying attention. Supino Pizzeria, famous for its thin-crust, East Coast-style pies, has confirmed plans to open a new location in Beverly Hills, marking Supino's first suburban location after years of operating exclusively within the city of Detroit, with owner Dave Mancini expecting to be serving slices by early 2026. Mancini has told local press he is targeting February or March.
The family tie explains how a Detroit institution ended up in a village of roughly 10,000 people before it went anywhere else in the suburbs. Laith Karmo is of the Karmo family that owns the Beverly Hills Market Fresh and the Market Square stores in Birmingham and West Bloomfield, and he is the brother-in-law of Supino owner Dave Mancini. The landlord is family. That is the kind of connection that turns a maybe-someday expansion into a signed lease.
What actually changes for a Friday night
The Detroit locations of Supino have never been a casual proposition from Beverly Hills. Eastern Market on a Saturday means parking, waiting, and a drive home that erases whatever peace the meal built. The New Center location shortened the drive but not the crowd.
Beverly Hills is roughly 20 minutes closer than either, and the format is changing with the address. The restaurant will have about 80 seats and a full bar, and Mancini has said the menu will be slightly elevated, still pizza focused but with more fish and proteins. Supino serves only Italian wines and hopes to pour more by the glass and bottle at the new location, introducing Oakland County diners to Italian grape varieties.
Translation for someone who already lives on Beverly Road: the Friday-night calculus changes. Walk-in for a slice and a glass at the bar becomes a real option instead of a scheduled outing. Whether the pizza tastes identical to Eastern Market is the fair question. Mancini has been public about wanting it to.
The village's event calendar quietly out-programs bigger towns
While the plaza gets its makeover, the Village has been building a summer program that most residents underuse. Beverly Park runs a nearly nonstop free calendar from May through October. If you have lived here for five years and only ever attended the Memorial Day Parade, you are missing most of it.
Here is the 2026 slate worth putting on a fridge.
| Series | 2026 Dates | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Food Truck Mondays | May 4 through August 31 | Rotating |
| Java & Jazz with the Ryan Bills Trio | May 17, June 21, July 19, Aug 16, Sept 20 | 9 a.m. to noon |
| Memorial Day Parade and Carnival | May 25 | 11 a.m. |
| Concerts in the Park | June 6, June 26, July 17, Aug 14 | 7 p.m. |
| Movie at Dusk | Aug 20 | Dusk |
| Halloween Hoot | Oct 24 | 6 to 8 p.m. |
A few of these deserve more than a row in a table. Java & Jazz is a relaxed Sunday morning series featuring the Ryan Bills Trio with free coffee and live jazz at the Beverly Park pavilion. A regular jazz trio, five Sunday mornings a season, free, walkable for a chunk of the village. That is a programming decision most municipalities of this size do not make.
The Memorial Day Parade on May 25, 2026 begins at Groves High School, travels north along Evergreen Road, continues east on Beverly Road, and concludes at Beverly Park, followed by a remembrance ceremony and a community carnival with food trucks and family-friendly activities. If you live along Evergreen or Beverly, the parade is passing your driveway whether you signed up for it or not. Plan accordingly.
Beverly Park is doing more work than most residents realize
The park itself is the second reason the free calendar works. Beverly Park is not a lawn with a swing set. It is a full recreation complex tucked into a residential street, and the amenity list reads like something you would expect in a much larger community.
- Sand volleyball court and horseshoe pits
- Tennis courts
- A wooded disc golf course looping around the pond
- Playgrounds for multiple age groups
- An outdoor fitness gym with dedicated stations
- A nature trail with benches and educational signage
- A covered pavilion available for rental
- A free lending library at the playground
The park's design encourages active living, with dedicated workout areas, jogging trails, and spacious picnic areas complemented by the beauty of old-growth trees and a charming pond that attracts local wildlife. The disc golf course in particular is the sleeper amenity. The well-maintained disc golf course features clearly marked tees winding through wooded areas around a scenic pond. Bring a set of discs from your garage. You can play a full round without leaving the village.
One practical note. Pets are not permitted at the park, which surprises new residents who assume any open green space is dog-friendly. Bring the kids and the frisbees. Leave the dog at home.
Where the anchors still hold
None of this means the established places are going anywhere. Beverly Hills Grill at 31471 Southfield Road has drawn guests for over 30 years with a sophisticated menu of contemporary American food. It is still walk-in only, still no reservations, and still the answer when the question is a Tuesday dinner that has to be good without being a production.
What is different about 2026 is that the Grill is no longer the only serious sit-down anchor within the village limits. The plaza across the road is going to hold a full-bar pizzeria from one of Detroit's most respected operators. Two anchors on the same corridor is a different neighborhood than one.
A weekend, mapped
If you want to test how much the village can actually deliver without leaving it, try a summer weekend.
- Sunday morning, 9:30. Walk or drive to Beverly Park for Java & Jazz. Coffee is free. The trio plays through noon.
- Walk the nature trail after the set. If the kids are with you, the playground and lending library are 60 seconds from the pavilion.
- Monday evening. Food Truck Mondays run through August 31. Rotating vendors, park benches, no cooking.
- Friday night. Once Supino opens, this is the block that changes. Pizza and a glass of Italian red at the plaza. Beverly Hills Grill remains the walk-in backup if the wait is long.
- Saturday. Disc golf at the park. Nine holes through the woods around the pond.
None of that requires a drive to Woodward. That is the shift.
Why the corner matters beyond the pizza
The reason to pay attention to the Market Fresh facelift is not that a good pizzeria is opening. It is that Beverly Hills has spent decades as a village people love to live in and leave to eat in. The Southfield Road corridor is the piece that has always underperformed the housing stock around it. A rebuilt plaza with a destination tenant and a family operator who is invested in the community is the first credible sign that the commercial corner is catching up to the rest of the village.
The rest of what Beverly Hills already does well, the park, the free programming, the quiet residential streets, is not new. It has been here the whole time. 2026 is the year it stops being the whole story.
If you want to talk about how the changes on Southfield Road are shaping the way buyers see this village, or you are simply curious what your own street is doing right now, the team at Logan Wert Real Estate Group tracks Beverly Hills block by block. Reach out whenever you want a straight read on the market.
