Financial Carrots Dangled to Spur Supermarket Development
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides funding to entice grocers to city ‘food deserts’
A green grocer will break ground in Vineland as part of financing efforts to attract supermarkets to “food deserts” – the New Jersey cities scare in options for fresh fruits, vegetables and healthier food choices. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is providing $12 million to help bring affordable fresh food to an estimated 1 million New Jerseyans living in cities where this grocery gap is believed to play a major role in high rates of obesity among children, and preventable diseases like hypertension and diabetes among their parents. Called the New Jersey Food Access Initiative, the program is being managed by The Reinvestment Fund, which partners with developers to open supermarkets in nutritionally starved places, where healthy food is hard…
pearlnoel
5:58 am on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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