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Posted on 02/05/2014 11:21:10 AM PST by grundle
The Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF) objected to the proposed development partly because it feared that the new retail complex would eventually push up rental prices in the area and drive out the local black community. PAALF officials cited that they held no animosity toward Trader Joe’s whatsoever but were concerned by the city government’s history of displacing African-Americans from their homes.
According to The Oregonian newspaper, California-based developer Majestic Realty Co. had plans to build an $8 million retail complex in a vacant two-acre lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street. The project was to include a Trader Joe's store, as well as up to 10 other retailers and a 100-space parking lot. The Portland Development Commission (PDC) had already OK'd a deal to sell the acreage to Majestic for $500,000, leading to optimism from the city fathers of an economic renaissance in the deprived area. However, now that Trader Joe’s and Majestic have both backed out, municipal officials called the decision "a loss for the city” and particularly for Northeast Portland.
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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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Wonder if Trader Joe’s accepts EBT?
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?
Liberals want to keep Black People on the Plantation. Liberals need Black People to hate their situation and to blame Republicans.
Didn’t Nathan Bedford Forrest start a little Democrat Club to accomplish the same?
Not long, and they will blame it on white racism.
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.
yes trader joes accepts food stamps (ebdcards whatever).
nowadays with the Great Obama Depression a store would lose half its customers if it didn’t accept food stamps
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