Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson needs to discover metropolis supported grocery shops. I’m delicate to the idea of meals deserts — considered one of my sons lives in Georgetown with no automobile and no easy accessibility to a grocery.
I’ve some considerations, although, concerning the idea of metropolis supported grocery shops. This sounds inefficient, costly and doubtless two or three years within the growth.
Maybe if we bought away from the considering that each one grocery shops needed to be 35,000 sq. toes with a big car parking zone the equation might change. I used to be not too long ago in New York Metropolis and two blocks from the resort was a full service 4,000-square-foot retailer shoehorned into repurposed retail house. No parking, however it labored and it was busy. Each neighborhood appeared to have at the least one bodega averaging round 1,000 sq. toes. Their grocery vary was extra restricted however it was there and served the neighborhood.
Possibly one thing so simple as a zoning change would permit small impartial personal operators in Seattle to maneuver in to fill the meals desert gaps and the brand new mayor might concentrate on different priorities.
Douglas Pratt, Seattle
