Meck Co. commissioners considering investment into West Charlotte food desert
CHARLOTTE— Mecklenburg County Commissioners thought of investing almost two million bucks into a future West Charlotte grocery shop, in their meeting on Tuesday.
It would not be an normal supermarket, it would be a point out-of-the-art community market place to remove the meals desert in West Charlotte. There are more than 75 chain grocery outlets in Mecklenburg County, but West Blvd. does not have a solitary a person.
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A group of neighborhood leaders have been functioning on the options for the grocery retailer. It will be a for-financial gain retail store with a community kitchen area, shipping system, and wraparound services for these who will need a minimal additional support. The full expense for the challenge would be more than $5 million, but the group is hoping Mecklenburg County will chip in $1.7 million.
Commissioner Vilma Leake is hoping the Board coughs up the funding.
“For this local community in Mecklenburg County to deny black folks and bad individuals the right, to ideal kinds of food stuff to preserve us healthier. And to are living a very long everyday living. This is a person purpose I ran for the board was to improve to deliver about a alter agent for all those who could not bring it by themselves,” Leake claimed.
But the County Supervisor, Dena Diorio, still has issues.
“We would want to probably fund a actual business enterprise program and validate the assumptions and make positive that they’re legitimate in advance of we go ahead and approve $1.7 million in financial commitment for this task. The other matter that I would also say is that there is certainly definitely no entity to which we are giving this revenue. We have to have to have an understanding of the organizational framework and what the entity will be that will receive this money,” Diorio mentioned.
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