But it isn't really isn't that black and white is it? A rich family could get a break on this property to build a Trader Joes there, but how long has the property been vacant? Maybe no one else wants to build there and this "subsidy" is better for the community due to the employment a Trader Joes and other businesses could provide.
Right now an empty parking lot isn't helping the community much; this should also be taken into consideration.
The land is not actually a parking lot but is grassy and open and is effectively a park right now. It actually adds quite a bit of value to the neighborhood as it is IMO. Also, the PDC did not offer it to anyone else at that price, just Trader Joes.
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But it isn't really isn't that black and white is it? A rich family could get a break on this property to build a Trader Joes there, but how long has the property been vacant? Maybe no one else wants to build there and this "subsidy" is better for the community due to the employment a Trader Joes and other businesses could provide.
Right now an empty parking lot isn't helping the community much; this should also be taken into consideration.
The land is not actually a parking lot but is grassy and open and is effectively a park right now. It actually adds quite a bit of value to the neighborhood as it is IMO. Also, the PDC did not offer it to anyone else at that price, just Trader Joes.
The protest group has no interest in helping the community. They would lose their relevance if people started to improve their situations.
The other theory is that they tried to shakedown Trader Joe's exactly like Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition does.