As far as I know, the City is funding currently funding one grocery store project: a Cub store at Lake and Nicollet. Proposals, nebulous or specific, are also floating around for city-subsidized groceries downtown and on Central Avenue NE.
I'm not sure about the list of city-subsidized supermarkets so I throw this out to the list: *Rainbow in the Quarry development (aka Dziedzicdale) in NE Minneapolis about a half mile from the proposed Cub on Central Avenue. A rationale for the Quarry was that the majority of folks in NE were spending their grocery dollars outside the city limits. At that time, there was a supermarket in St. Anthony Village about 1/4 mile beyond city limits (now closed), a supermarket at Apache Plaza (which went out of business and last I heard, Cub was receiving a subsidy from St. Anthony to go into Apache), a supermarket north 1/3 mile north of the city limits on Central, and a Rainbow on 18th and University NE (closed as Rainbow, closed as a successor grocery market). *Newmarket on Broadway Avenue near the Target in North Minneapolis. *Newmarket next to the K-Mart Store at Nicollet-Lake (including previous owners of this store). *Cub at Minnehaha Mall. *Rainbow across the street from Minnehaha Mall. *Wedge co-op. *Seward co-op. *Cub on 60th and Nicollet. There may be more. I've shopped at all these places and the only decent store in the bunch is the Cub on 60th and Nicollet. The rest charge significantly higher prices than non-subsidized competitors. I remember my first stop at the "new" Seward Co-op when I picked up radishes and parsley to garnish pototo salad I was taking to a backyard barbecue - the price was $3 and I'll never go back! A couple of years ago, I complained to the manager at the Lake and Hiawatha Cub that the produce section was filthy, the floors were covered with mud - and he said, we are so busy, I can't send someone to clean it up. I tried the store a year later looking for soy milk or rice milk - they had none. Both times, I left and went to Lunds in Highland Village - and I continue to shop there or the Cub on 60th. In my experience, the Lake Street stores have been terrible on cleanliness, selection, customer service and check-out times. I'd like to hear additions or corrections and the experiences of others on this list. Shawne FitzGerald Powderhorn _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
