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.
Well, TJ has raised the price of two-buck-Chuck...
(Never been to one, but I guess it's the kind of store that one either loves or hates.)