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Originally Posted by moorhosj
A far cry from your original comment:
How can you claim it hasn't made a material difference? How many local residents are employed by Englewood Square? How many are eating healthier because of the new options available? You don't know the answers to these questions and neither do I.
Will this one development save an entire neighborhood, no. Then again, nobody ever claimed it would. It has, however, proven that private investment will follow public investment even in places like Englewood. Ranting about socialism (or trying to conflate it to communism, like Baronvonellis) doesn't really help anyone answer any of those questions and certainly doesn't help the people living in Englewood today.
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Well yes this was built with public money. How successful are the businesses today? I don't go there so I'm legitimately asking how it's doing. I mean it's nice they built a whole foods, but the food there is very expensive. I have a middle class job and would never shop at whole foods. I don't know why they think people in poverty could afford to shop at whole foods. It would have been better to open a Jewel there. What private investment has followed this public investment in Englewood?
To make any great change in Englewood, it would have to be Communism. The leaders in those areas are asking the city to build everything for them.