Work on Three Sisters Market, a local initiative to bring a grocery store to Charlotte’s West Boulevard corridor for the first time in three decades, has stalled as backers work to secure additional funding, its executive director said.
The project was initially set to be completed last month. But since the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition announced the initiative in 2023, the organization has raised only a third of the funds needed to make the project a reality. The coalition had secured about $5 million in government contributions when it announced the project, but has raised little since then.
Three Sisters Market received $3 million from Mecklenburg County, $1.5 million from the City of Charlotte, $750,000 from Congresswoman Alma Adams and a few small grants and member donations bringing the total to about $5,850,000. But to have the co-op fully built, stocked and operational, they’ll need a total of $15 million, Elliott Royal, interim executive director of the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition, said…