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Karriem Beyah, 47, is out to change all that with Farmers Best Market. He grew up on Chicago's South Side and worked in his godfather's neighborhood grocery store. So it isn't surprising that he embarked on a career chopping raw meat, loading food trucks and, eventually, managing a dairy distributor's operations. As he built his personal savings and a base of industry contacts, he noticed the growth of stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods in Chicago and its suburbs. "This should be on the South Side," he recalls thinking. But, he says, when...
Nevertheless, about four years ago, he began scoping out properties, just as research began to emerge identifying vast sections of Chicago - particularly its black neighborhoods - as a food desert. But the initial idea of opening a store in a black neighborhood was dashed. "I'd have to have a higher class of African Americans, that recognize the value of fruits and vegetables," he recalls thinking. Real estate was too expensive in neighborhoods like Bronzeville and Hyde Park, which boast high concentrations of black professionals. At the same time, he observed that many Latinos tend to have large families...
...realize that the Iraqi government is running low on cash owing to the global financial crisis. "There have been some delays, but we did not have to wait too long for pay," says Abaje, a member of the volunteer Sunni watchmen-fighters known as the Awakening in the Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour. But Abaje, like scores of other Awakening members across Iraq, worries that the pay may dry up altogether. "If the government wanted to end the Awakening program, no one could stop them...
...father that had a steady job all of his life. We had a strong external family unit. I grew up with grandparents and uncles and aunts. People didn't go to college, but you had Christmas dinner together. You know, they were just this huge, strong support system. The neighborhood that I lived in wasn't wealthy, but it wasn't crime-ridden, so you could play in the streets, and there were gangs, but there weren't gangs that would keep you from going to school...
...leasing and improvements to properties we currently own and continued dialogue with our Allston neighbors around community engagement and community-wide planning.” Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, relayed Faust’s message to neighborhood residents at a North Allston-Brighton Community-Wide Planning Meeting Wednesday evening, where the news was welcomed by City officials and community members. Michael F. Glavin, deputy director of institutional development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which oversees planning and development projects in the City, said that Faust?...