A long-awaited grocery store in Griffin Heights that could change the neighborhood’s food desert status has hit a roadblock: there’s no one to run it, leaving neighbors without that crucial resource for now.
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Griffin Heights grocery store is built, but a funding shortfall leaves it without an operator for now
The Griffin Heights Neighborhood Association originally planned to operate the store.
But in a Sept. 16 email to the city, the neighborhood association withdrew the application, unable to “secure the level of funding necessary to responsibly launch and sustain the grocery store at this time.”…