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Aldi in North #Minneapolis is closing, permanently!?! For full-service grocery stores in #NorthMinneapolis that leaves Cub, which does not want to be here or in business at all, but legally has to stay for now, and the non-profit North Market.
@mlncn Curious in what makes Cub legally required to stay?
@dylanlive all my info comes from my partner who worked in a local food justice nonprofit (with plenty of its own issues heh). That Target got the land with a sweetheart deal in exchange for having full-service grocery, as the area needed it so much.
@dylanlive i'll ask for more details but ~hour searching the Internet gives me nothing, so if there was such a deal it probably is no longer in effect. The few short articles on Target closing and Cub opening in 2004 don't mention anything.
@dylanlive I know google search has gotten terrible but it still says an awful lot that i can find dozens of articles about Target and Cub closing stores "because of looting" which seems like it was designed to push pro-police narratives (hey they could have instead done mutual aid in the spirit of the moment and given away stuff and there'd be no looting) and nothing about the opening of a grocery store in a food desert, or the struggle of a community to get/keep a supermarket.
Longest article from the 2004 transition from Target to Cub doesn't mention any deal:
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/01/10_williamsb_broadway/
but i have not found a single news mention of Target opening a large store including supermarket in the first place.
There are two brief Biz Journal articles, one saying the Target store is closing: https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2003/05/26/daily17.html
And then less than a month later, that it will become a Cub Foods:
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2003/06/16/daily33.html
So, did someone remind Target of a responsibility?
Other evidence that Target may have been buying themselves out of an obligation to serve #Northside:
"When the Minneapolis store
closed, Target provided a one-time $300,000 grant to the Minneapolis Foundation
to support the West Broadway Development."
From the ghost of a news article on the ghost of a forum:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/topic/12JwlPKv8hC3uDKUeC93xD
Clear legal obligations being conveniently forgotten by corporations after they get what they want would hardly be a new thing. (Or, perhaps, left unmentioned in the hope they will be forgotten.)
In Boston in 2017, Black teenagers found a 1993 state law obligated the new Boston Garden to host three fundraisers a year for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation: https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/03/td-garden-teens-agreement
So yeah, i'm going to treat the rumor i'm spreading as very possibly true, but i hope someone better at tracking down city agreements than i am can do it so kids at North Community High School don't have to try to dig up this possible circa 2000 agreement in five years to stop the food desert from expanding.