It just needs to be open for a few days before the voting starts. So that he can claim that he did it, and then the moment the election is over, it’ll have some sort of “problem”, and have to be closed.
Atlanta opened a government owned Azaela market 15 months ago. It had a lot of free publicity the first 3 months. It is close to both thousands of GSU students/faculty and office employees.
Now, 15 months later it has been out of the news. Yelp lists the 86 best markets in “downtown” Atlanta. The downtown Publix and Kroger are listed first, then PigglyWiggly, then a mix of downtown & many midtown, large & small, general & specialty then farther out in all directions.
Out of 86 no city owned store in Yelp’s list no city owned store. In 12 months, not a peep out of anyone on how the store is doing. Movement types that are always trying to grab attention never seen associated with this government owned store. No idea how it is doing.