Some are looking a little farther down the road at how to reverse the exodus of big-box corporate America from cities like Chicago.
– resulting in longer commutes for food and prescriptions in some of the affected communities.
There are worries of a food desert in Kenwood. Tye asked Walmart Leola Ferguson how she expects the community will get fresh produce when the Cottage Grove Avenue store closes.In Chatham, Greater Chatham Initiative executive director Nedra Fears said the closure of the supercenter would create a pharmacy desert. The Chatham Supercenter has a health center, and a Walmart Academy that has provided job training for the community."We are devastated we don't make the cut," Fears said.
"After making tens of millions in investment, you're going to close on dime?" Fears said."Very puzzling." "We have to figure out a way to go after these big-box retailers - that they come into our communities, we give them all types of incentives, then they leave," said Alderman-elect Lamont Robinson."We have to stop that.""I will be working on an ordinance to make sure that when big-box retailers come into our community, they receive incentives – that they have to be able to pay those incentives back," Robinson said.
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