ribit sez ~ "I bet there are dozens of empty grocery stores in the very neighborhoods Mandami wants to service."
And, you would be correct sire! You win the Booby Prize (we put her in a hijab to preserve her modesty, don'tcha know) ...
Excerpt from The New York Post:
“This store will be open in 2029,” Mamdani said. “The reason that we’re announcing it first is because, unlike other stores, this will be built from the ground up.”
The store at La Marqueta is planned to be a 9,000-square-foot market erected on a nearby vacant lot, officials said.
The project will cost roughly half the $70 million Mamdani’s administration expects to spend to get the city-owned grocery stores off the ground in all five boroughs by the end of his first term.
The funding still requires approval from the City Council.
Grocery executives were gobsmacked by the La Marqueta project’s $30 million price tag, with some pointing out a typical, 15,000-square-foot store without elevators or escalators costs under $10 million to build.
And at least two existing properties – one with 33,000 square feet of retail space, the other with 15,000 square feet – are currently up for sale down the block from La Marqueta for roughly $15 million and $7 million, listings show.
Mamdani makes surprising admission about the cost of goods at NYC-owned grocery stores
http://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-city-owned-grocery-stores-will-only-guarantee-lower-prices-for-a-core-basket-of-goods/
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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