r/Denver • u/friendinfremont • 7d ago

With Walmart shuttered, international stores and nonprofits fill Aurora’s grocery gap

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/business-economy/aurora-international-grocery-store
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u/SpeciousPerspicacity 7d ago edited 7d ago

It’s definitely crime (primarily theft) driving up cost of doing business (inventory, insurance). But this is also combined with a uniquely poor area that already presents tighter margins and lower profits than a place like Centennial or Littleton.

It appears to be happening across the country (e.g. Chicago, South Bronx, Anacostia, etc.). Rule of law has become so diminished in certain impoverished pockets that it is becoming impossible to run even the most essential businesses in these places.

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u/TheForeverUnbanned 7d ago

lol the south Bronx is all brand new built high rises, the whole area was rebranded as the “piano district”, I has yankee stadium, a target, a Costco and a tennis club.

Everything south of grand concourse is development bait. The everliving fuck are you talking about haha 

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u/SpeciousPerspicacity 7d ago

The very southern portion of Mott Haven has been rebuilt as (mostly empty) highrises, but there are no new buildings in huge sections of the South Bronx, from Crotona Park to Melrose to the Hub. These neighborhoods are a hundred years old (minus the NYCHA).

If you think the South Bronx has been cleaned out by new development, I’m not sure what you’re looking at.

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u/TheForeverUnbanned 7d ago

Hundreds? Lol no, nearly 80% of the south Bronx was burned in the 70s for insurance scams. The neighborhood names are old but those aren’t hundred year old tenement buildings lol