Baton Rouge looking to enter cooperative agreement for Healthy Food Retail Initiative

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Mayor Sharon Weston Broome is asking the Metro Council to approve the city-parish entering into a cooperative endeavor agreement with a Jackson-based loan fund that would help increase access to fresh foods in traditionally underserved neighborhoods in the parish. Hope Enterprise Corporation of the Mid-South will administer the program, making loans to supermarkets, grocery stores

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