Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $10 million through the Food Access Expansion Grant program, and $1.7 million of it will go toward renovating the Valley Plaza grocery store in Syracuse.
“Having access to fresh and healthy food is critical in every neighborhood in this city, and now an area with limited access will have a grocery store once again,” said Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh.
On Syracuse’s south side, the Valley Plaza used to house a Tops, but that closed in 2018 leaving the ZIP code of 13205 without a full-service grocery store. According to data from Onondaga County, 32% of households in that neighborhood do not own a vehicle…