Here our city goes again, "Let's clean up William's Park!" What about Midtown? Remember that the Sweetbay just closed? No more talk about bringing another grocery store there yet, that has probably been put on hold. Just like all of the empty, boarded up buildings on 22nd Street South, this is another one. Let's not forget that funding has just stopped for the Job Corp! So guess what will happen to that next? Yep, lay offs and it will become another abandoned building. Oh, and the Manhattan Casino that is supposed to bring in Sylvia's Soul Food restaturant, when is that gonna happen? That building has been abandoned for FOREVER!!! Then they want to bring in a restaurant that won't last long because who will pay $8 for a breakfast when you can go and support your LOCAL mom and pop's that will charge half of that and you will still get good, quailty food. The City and the so called local leaders have their OWN agenda's! If it's not benefiting them or putting money in their pockets, they don't care! This is a voting year and the community MUST get out to VOTE in order to change things in our community, starting with the LEADERSHIP!!!
Sweetbay was poorly planned and did not fail because of the neighborhood. A discount store would have thrived. A farmers market was proposed for the site and could have been built for a fraction of the $7 million wasted on Sweetbay.