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- Weingarten To Pour Foundation at The Driscoll in River Oaks High-Rise [HBJ ($)]
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- Houston City Council Agrees To Subsidize Fifth Ward Grocery Near Fiesta Mart [Houston Chronicle]
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- Sneak Peek at Kinder Institute’s Study on Houston’s Walkability [Houston Public Media]
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Regarding 5th Ward Grocery Store – ““Yeah, we forced him (to build a grocery), but we weren’t trying to set him up to fail,†Davis said, stressing that the subsidies will go to the grocer, not Liu. ” This definitely isnt how capitalism should work…. So will this grocer be dead in under 5 years? Also, Liu has a lot of land in the area, i wonder what kind of deals he cut for this.
The city subsidizes grocery stores and the like ‘all the time’ says councilman Davis, flippantly. Because the neighborhood didn’t like the Fiesta? The area is hardly a food desert; wasn’t there some objective criteria? Sorry, what was I thinking, this is pure pork.