Food, markets, and healthy communities

Article Abstract:

The fundamentals of a sustainable community, and of a healthy and satisfying life for each resident in it, start with a suitable place to live and a reliable, affordable source of food for a balanced diet. The presence of a quality food source influences nearly every calculation of value in a neighborhood or rural community, with a full-service food market offering various economic development benefits and affecting the quality of life for individual residents, their health and nutrition, as well as a key element of their daily cost of living.

Food Stores, Food and Beverage Stores, Product quality, Grocery Stores, Grocery industry, Quality management, Quality of life

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North Park Street Plaza

Article Abstract:

About half the residents of Northside in Kalamazoo, Michigan, live below the poverty line and, until 2003, had to be content with high prices, a small selection, and low quality at the one convenience store in the area. The opening of the US$4 million North Park Street Plaza offered quality food at affordable prices, added 50 new jobs to the neighborhood's tiny employment base, and also led to several new developments on the surrounding blocks.

Employment, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Convenience Stores, Administration of General Economic Programs, Michigan, Jobs & Employment, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Pathmark supermarket

Article Abstract:

The neighborhood of East Harlem was, at the end of the 20th century, both a concentrated center of New York City poverty and a vexingly difficult place to buy food for a healthy diet. All that changed in 1999 with the opening of the new 53,000-square-foot Pathmark supermarket that offered the community access to decent, reasonably priced food as well as services such as general health information.

Facilities & equipment, Supermarkets, Buildings and facilities, Supermarkets General Corp.

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