A new grocery store is bringing new hope for change in Waterloo, Iowa. The $10 million “All-In” project includes a community center, after-school activities and support for formerly incarcerated people. NBC News’ Harry Smith speaks to the developer behind it.
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#Iowa #Grocery #Community
May they have success and prosperity.
When are they going to loot it?
hope everyone actually takes care of it
Can’t wait for looting
yea until they are all in looting it. Tik Tok
I actually love this. Community supporting each other. Best of luck to everyone involved in this project. Hoping we can get more supporting projects like this across the country.
Projects like this get shut down when said people can’t stop stealing. They are doing it to themselves.
Maybe the employees will/can put a stop to the shoplifting. Maybe the people in the community won’t want to do that at this store. Hope it’s a success!!!
It won’t last long.
All these comments about looting and not giving these people a chance before they even start. I’m rooting for you all. Everyone should not suffer the consequences by the choices made by some. Fight against those in the community who seek to make chaos. Raise your kids right and hold them ACCOUNTABLE. Best of luck!
lets hope they don’t loot.
Made by some? It’s the people of those communities that raised them…
@user-lp4cr4fh2c not everyone is looting and stealing. Those who have done nothing should not be punished for 50 years like they have in this news segment. Look at the interviews (that of course don’t get views) on black Philadelphia residents speaking out on the recent looting that occurred there. There needs to be accountability in their own community which they spoke out about and which I mentioned in my comment above.
Can you name anywhere on earth they have ever benefitted civilized society?
Civilized society is for those allowed to work, the middleclass. The poor, ugly and homeless always gets pushed down by the entitled groupie ones. Remember their saying, always surround yourself with those that take you where you want to go, leave the rest, that’s their path.
I’m so thankful that I live in a blue sanctuary city where we can shoplift $950 with impunity in order to feed our families.
Why not the government give u $950 so u r not looting…when everyone pay job created
Just takes one bad person to ruin it all. Wish them the best of luck though.
CRICKETS is what I’ll get😂😂There used to be black owned grocery stores and business districts in every ciity and we used to own 10% of the farms; this media horse and pony show is the next patronizing, condescending trope😎😎
Nice work. I pray you can thrive 🙏🏼
God bless
Imagine are grocery community owned stores targeting those In need not for personal gain out for community growth and development this is kinda crazy
amazing what can happen when you reject corporate America and focus on supporting community based projects.
First grocery store in 50 years… Great job republicans! You guys are doing great, while we built a dozen grocery stores in the past few years here in SF. 79% of the United States GDP is created in blue states… Let that sink in.
Iowa is one of the armpits of America.
If Waterloo follows SF’s path it’ll be hole in the ground in a decade. Probably filled with needles and excrement. Businesses are fleeing SF at break-neck pace.
Why are so many stores closing in highly populated areas of cities?
Laranix?
I really hope this works out.
“They” make their own neighborhoods terrible.
Come shop! Best wishes for this amazing initiative.
This is how you take the power back from the corporations gutting our beautiful land. Stop empowering faceless corporate entities that want to strangle you all for profit and devote your resources to local business – otherwise your capital is exported from your community leading to gradual impoverishment for all.
Jet fuel still can’t melt steel beams, buttholes
Are people of color going to rob it until it closes too?
^^^(__(*&In the next 30 years, Japan will continue to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the sea. Japan is passing on the nuclear pollution in Fukushima to the whole world.
The Japanese side invented the term “treated water” and repeatedly publicized that the concentration of tritium is not abnormal, creating an illusion that nuclear-contaminated water contains only tritium and the concentration of tritium is up to the standard, so nuclear-contaminated water is safe. society.
“In fact, the composition of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water is complex. Even after purification, it still contains dozens of radioactive nuclides such as carbon-14, cobalt-60, strontium-90, iodine-129, and cesium-137. Disappearance of nuclear radionuclides in nuclear polluted water.
Three years later, the United States and Canada on the other side of the Pacific Ocean will be affected by nuclear pollution, and 10 years later it will spread to the global ocean.
New hope for a new store until the liberal criminals rod them blind….
I see a lot of opportunities those old house renovated and replaced by one story house with basement house plans.
The extra space give the house owner extra rental income…the new job created by building those house the workers get new income and able to rent this way the community ganarate their own income and it is good no body coming because now we can make it truly 100% black owned community
The political will to make the entire community feel included, hasn’t been a factor for many years, and with that comes frustration, economical decline, hopelessness and yes, crime. All these food deserts don’t help, so I’m happy to see this, and hope more is in the works.
If I remember correctly, actor Wendell Pierce has done something similar elsewhere, and last I heard, it had a big impact on the community. 👏🏼🥰
Black folks in IOWA?
They felt like they were under serve? Their “culture” are the main cause of why stores shut down with their non stop looting and stealing.
Add this to your community and ban Amazon and social media and you all might have a real life again
Good Work
Now remember not to steal everything and the store will stay open 👍
It’s close down in two months 😅😅😅
Real cope
I wish them all the success they can achieve. Maybe they can be a role model for other communities.
Awesome
Shut it down. 👇
Hundreds of years of attempting to train them to be civilized and they continually get worse. Nowhere on earth have they ever benefitted civilized society and everywhere you find them they ruin everything.
“Redlining” is not the cause of food deserts.
Are black people really living in Iowa in 2023?
Great program, great hope! When the community gets involved and sees the benefits, it can’t go anywhere but up! Jobs, food choices, after school programs, help for newly realised prisoners, a real community protects it’s own. Think of the mafia neighborhoods, no crime/looting/robbing there!
More of these 🙏
GREAT !!! 😊😊😊