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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The SHARE Food Cooperative of Winston-Salem is making progress with plans to bring a co-op grocery store to one of the citys food deserts. <\/p>\n
A now-vacant 8,000+-square-foot building has the attention of project leaders. <\/p>\n
The building in the West Salem Shopping Center was a grocery store at one time, making it an ideal space for what SHARE hopes to do. <\/p>\n
The vision is to establish some food markets in some food desserts, project coordinator Rev. Gary R. Williams said.Fresh food to people at a reasonable cost. <\/p>\n
Eventually, SHARE would like to have multiple locations to address the numerous food deserts in the city, but for now its focusing on the Peters Creek Parkway location. <\/p>\n
We said, Why dont we find an area where we wont have to do so much work on the area itself, but be able to set up the co-op and [allow people] to access it right away and then we would use it as a model to take to these other areas, said Rev. Willard Bass, co-founding project developer. <\/p>\n
They should build one right here, or put one here, resident Aundra Thweatt said. <\/p>\n
The goal is to create a model similar to the Renaissance Co-op in Greensboro, but the group will need city funding to move forward with the vision. <\/p>\n
To meet the operational, administrative and consulting needs of the project, SHARE would need an estimated total investment of $100,000 from the city. <\/p>\n
However, in the short term, SHARE will ask the city at an upcoming council meeting to consider providing $21,000 for a feasibility study. <\/p>\n
The study will allow SHARE to determine if this location is best suited to address all of the co-ops needs. <\/p>\n
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