A three-year initiative launched by Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration in late 2019 to recruit new grocery stores to underserved neighborhoods in the parish sunsetted last year without any deals for a new store. For the Healthy Food Retail Initiative, the administration partnered with Hope Enterprise Corporation of the Mid-South, a Jackson, Mississippi-based credit union.
What happened to Baton Rouge’s Healthy Food Retail Initiative?
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