Posted on 12/01/2016 3:48:12 AM PST by Zakeet
In July, the city of Dallas offered at least $3 million to any grocery store willing to sell fresh produce and healthy food in a "southern Dallas food desert." For the first time, the city made it known it had money available, advertising in grocery trade publications. Decades of pleading, of keeping fingers crossed, begat the promise of cold, hard cash.
But officials said Wednesday they never found a taker.
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Council members had hoped a grocery store chain would agree to open at least one 25,000-square-foot store in southern Dallas and, preferably, one that could anchor a larger mixed-use development. The city's Office of Economic Development set aside millions from the city's Public/Private Partnership Program, which collects its money from Dallas residents' water bills and often uses it to offer incentives to developers.
The city set Wednesday as the come-and-get-it deadline.
And nobody came in ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
She’s very lucky.
Ours is much worse than that; on top of shoplifters, gibsmedats fill carts and try to simply walk out without paying.
Funny in that I drove through South Dallas one time and thought I was back in Newark. First rule, do not stop at any redlights or stop signs. Second rule, keep firearm immediately available. Third rule, get the hell out as quick as possible.
I’ve never been to South Dallas (or Texas, for that matter), but if it is reminiscent of Newark then it doesn’t have supermarkets for the same reason (that dare not speak its name).
“GROCERY STORY WANTED — Wal-Marts need not apply.”
I haven’t seen any of that, but I don’t go to that one very often since one was built nearer. The clearance prices are lower in Monroe, though. Items that are $2 here will be $1 there, and I’m more likely to find lean ground beef on markdown.
Obama made a big deal about a food desert over in Marrero, La and Michelle attended the opening of a minority owned grocery. The thing they never noted was literally a half mile down the road was a full sized SuperWalmart. It just wasn’t within walking distance of the Section 8 and low income high crime areas served by the other store.
That store lasted probably less than a year before it folded.
Food deserts really don’t exist in American cities.
When I was a kid, we were told of a future where most people would not have to work. A world where a person would receive a living wage and a place to stay without working. However, those that wanted NICER stuff and more travel, etc., could work and receive a wage that brought more of those things to them. The key was that one would no longer have to work unless they wanted to.
It sounded so Utopian.
Then I realized, we reached that future a long time ago. But human nature being what it is, it is not Utopian, but Dystopian. Those people that live for free are called welfare recipients and live in section 8 housing, enjoy Snap and other government assistance. They also live in crime ridden hell holes because, well, that’s the kind of character such a system breeds.
And the only way to save these people and their progeny is to eliminate that system.
Yea, I’ve rode Marta from Airport to the end of the northern line.
No way I’d get off there after midnight.
Our Wal-Mart was built at the edge of the NJ Meadowlands, on land that probably couldn’t be used for anything else due to contamination from former dumps. It is far from our residential area, but situated along a road that connects Newark to Jersey City - and the clientele reflects that.
It was a smart way to get a ratable using vacant land without negatively impacting the residents. We also recently opened a BJs, but that is in a well-trafficked area on the edge of a residential one that is causing traffic issues.
A few years back, a suburban mall near me got a bus stop, which made it convenient for people from the "inner city" to come over. The mall closed recently, and they're tearing it down.
Once the percentage of "inner city" people rises above a very small amount, suburban white folks stop shopping there.
I think the only thing that would work in the "inner city food deserts" would be a food vendor truck which stops at certain corners at certain times of day, then gets the hell out by nightfall. Maybe have residents pre-order what they want via their obama-phones, then they get a text message to pick it up when the truck arrives. No cash -- EBT/debit/credit cards only (so there's no incentive to rob the driver).
The Obama administration threatened to withhold highway funds from Beavercreek, OH unless Beavercreek paid the Dayton RTA for bus service Beavercreek citizens didn’t want. Beavercreek even had to pay for the damned bus stops.
Some neighborhoods even money can’t buy.
Food deserts often pop up where a morality desert exists.
Same reason the DC Metro never put a stop in Georgetown on the Orange Line.. They claimed the river was in the way. Ha ha.
That would be correct!
$3M probably wouldn’t cover the loss insurance premiums for a year.
South Dallas = Crime Hole
This part of Dallas was once (and may still be) represented by a black councilman who created a stink because another councilman used the term “black hole” in a council meeting.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/09/dallas-county-official-black-hole-is-racist/
As has been mentioned, if you need to travel from the south to Dallas be sure you have enough gas to at least reach I-20 in the central part of the city.
LOL - yes, reality rears it's ugly head... Truth's a bitch.
The bus stop they put right in front of our mall results in “inner city” moms hanging out during the daytime with their strollers when the taxpayers supporting them are working, and then I think the food court is thick with the young males at night. I quit going there years ago, but occasionally hear of assaults and such, that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.
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