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