Walmart will reopen one Atlanta store that’s been crucial for providing residents with access to fresh food, but another location will be axed.
Driving the news: Walmart late Monday announced its Vine City store at 835 Martin Luther King Dr. Drive will reopen as one of its Neighborhood Market concepts, which are smaller stores that offer fresh food, a pharmacy, health and beauty products and household supplies.
- However, Walmart also said it will permanently close the store at 1801 Howell Mill Road in Berkeley Park.
- Both locations have been closed since mid-December after fires were set inside both locations.
Why it matters: Reopening the Vine City location ensures the neighborhood would not become a food desert.
- Mayor Andre Dickens said in a statement that food security “is a moral right for our communities.”
- “The intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard is a nexus of multiple northwest and southwest Atlanta communities with seniors, children,…
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