City Foods’ is a ‘value proposition’ It is an opportunity in supporting the community...

•Provide goods and services into an area lacking them 

•Keeps capital inside the community 

•Create a “Downtown Anchor” 

•Would increase downtown livability and enhance local property values

•Consider the VALUE of having……. 

•A full-service grocery in downtown 

•A business with ~ 2+ million dollars retail sales annually 

•30 employees working downtown (with benefits) 

•A ‘Downtown Destination’ anchor and magnet 

•One less empty storefront •Year-round point of sale for locally grown produce • Local money kept more local! 

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THINGS WE ALREADY KNOW: 

•West Lafayette supported a food co-op for 25 years: 1970 – 1995 

•Lafayette shares demographics with towns supporting successful food co-ops 

•Co-ops have greatest support in college communities 

•Co-ops provide local social and economic benefits unavailable elsewhere

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WHY DOWNTOWN? 

•Downtown is a cultural center, the core of the city

•Trolley and proximity to bus station

•Proximity to University

•Food desert – downtown really needs more food shopping for its population base