Somerville’s eco-friendly housewares and bath and body shop, Green Tiger & Co., is expanding at Somerville’s Bow Market. Construction has begun to combine the current store with a neighboring unit to open a bigger space in the next few months, Bow Market co-founder Zach Baum said Tuesday.

The store is one of a few locally that tries to fight consumer waste by selling reusable items and their refills, or products made to last or avoid plastics. Cleenland opened in 2019 on Norfolk Street just north of Central Square, and Belmont has Yes!, a store that opened in Arlington in 2021 and relocated recently to serve both communities. Trang Trinh opened Green Tiger in July 2024. 

An expansion is “much needed,” she said, and comes at the request of customers to add products and bring in more refills. Trinh also wants to showcase more local makers and host workshops.

“We have been making it in a tiny space that’s just under 400 square feet. We have gotten very creative with creating – and sometimes manifesting – more space by using wall shelves, stacking crates on top of each other and hiding back stock underneath tables,” but Green Tiger has outgrown the space, Trinh said.

The expansion is underway along with a crowdfunding campaign to pay for it, as of Wednesday at 23 percent of a $15,000 goal. The initial quote for the expansion  was about $30,000, Trinh said. The wall between units comes down Monday, and construction could be done as soon as March 21.

The store will keep taking orders online and can bring orders out to customers at Bow Market, Trinh said.

Pop-ups at Bow

Bow Market is set up to host pop-ups, stores that come and go as entrepreneurs test ideas and introduce themselves without the full costs of a lease or other brick-and-mortar obligations. Baum identified some shops to look for in the coming months.

Cartridge Cave sells classic, retro and some current generation video games and consoles “at the best prices.” (April)

Jaina Cipriano brings a performance art piece to replace Rebecca Kopycinski’s ThotBot Implantation Center, which she has been running since October. “Bow is committed to this particular space being for performance arts for the foreseeable future” and is looking for artists to work with, Baum said. (April)

Sugar Turtle Studio sells “everyday creativity for everybody” in the form of stickers, magnets, notebooks, paper, postcards, bags and the like. (May through June)