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But then a bunch of radical leftist activists, who don't even live in the neighborhood, prevented it from being built.
Next PAALF will be complaining that they live in a "food desert."
My understanding is that those opposed to this are unhappy with the “gentrification” of the neighborhood and that a Trader Joe’s would further that process. The opponents want to bring “displaced” blacks back to the neighborhood, apparently the kind of blacks that would not or could not shop at a Trader Joe’s. I can only assume that they would like to turn the vacant two acre site into a mini-ghetto to re-establish the original neighborhood ghetto.
Liberal/Progressives want minorities to be dependent on government not having a chance for careers. They don’t want folks running off the plantation and to be slaves of the governmental welfare state.
solution (if a good grocery with some great food items mostly at quite reasonable prices .....is deemed “not appropriate?” to the neighborhood)......: let another couple big liquor stores move in and ask them to sell some junk food on the side
...problem solved?
(and then maybe we can get TJ’s to build their new store near us here, instead...we’d love to have a local TJ’s to shop at!)
How horrible, to bring economic development to a poor neighborhood. Heaven forbid that people should learn to work and become self-sufficient.
/sarc
Rough part of town.
Maybe the locals didn’t want to wear Hawaiian Shirts?
Does anyone know what the people in the neighborhood wanted?
I could see it going either way.
On the one hand if it was going to drive up property values, that could be a positive for the people in the neighborhood.
But on the otherhand, they’d have to move because of the higher taxes and it would break up the community.
Does anyone know what the people in the neighborhood wanted?
I could see it going either way.
On the one hand if it was going to drive up property values, that could be a positive for the people in the neighborhood.
But on the otherhand, they’d have to move because of the higher taxes and it would break up the community.
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This is insane. They should’ve gone for a deal that would bring jobs in the retail complex to minority workers who live nearby.
How long before the local paper laments the ‘food desert’ in the neighborhood and the lack of entry level jobs?
Neighborhood is very amish. A friend of mines grandfather, non-amish, was beaten nearly to death during a home break-in a mile from there.
Very sad. But it’s not just limited to black areas. All the lefties turn out to protest any development anywhere. It happens all the time in my town, usually because elderly lefties really want their neighborhoods to continue to decline (until they can leave their mildewing property in a dead neighborhood to some less than thrilled heir) because they’ve got theirs and they don’t want to see the neighborhood improve.
In my town, it’s usually the 65+ white ladies out there screaming about the desecration of their neighborhood by some perfectly innocuous business that wants to move in there (and in fact, the ladies live in zones that are already zoned mixed use). So that means young people can’t have services that would actually be beneficial to families, and the neighborhood remains a frozen, old-lady paradise.
I guess the old ladies have never realized that this affects their own property values, but actually, they probably don’t care.
Doesn’t matter the city, building on MLK Drive is not a good business plan...except for the selling of stolen cell phones and illegal pharmaceuticals.
This is my old neighborhood.
The “gentrification” battle is a front thrown out as a bone to the rabidly liberal population to fight over.
The truth is of course - it is over money.
The city is so in bed with developers there that the land was being almost given away. I assume the company didn’t want to get messed up in that.
Sad, since everybody wanted that store on a lot and “food desert” that’s been vacant for decades.
Typical liberal plan....keep them on the dole....
You mean bring jobs to a poor neighborhood? How dare they!!!!
Oh the irony of those that believe these groups are 'helping' them. Just like the Democrats that hold down the empowerment of blacks. They ay just thrive and leave the party to join the Republicans or (OH KNOW!) the tea party!
:-D