Black residents reject Trader Joe’s because it would attract too many white people

[ORDER_66]

If the municipal legislature (wealthy white people) tried to sell a piece of city property in a black neighborhood worth $2.9M to a wealthy private developer for $500K

Hmmmmm your land is worth 2.9 million dollars but your only selling it for 500k? Where the fukk is the rest of the money and the shyt sounds real shady, it does sound a real estate fraud.

 

[Higher Tech]

Maybe someone can fill me in on what I'm missing, I'm more than willing to try to understand, but this seems so fukking stupid.

 

[newarkhiphop]

just think of all the black youths that could have had jobs there

According to The Oregonian newspaper, California-based developer Majestic Realty Co. had plans to build an $8 million retail complex in a vacant two-acre lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street. The project was to include a Trader Joe's store, as well as up to 10 other retailers and a 100-space parking lot. The Portland Development Commission (PDC) had already OK'd a deal to sell the acreage to Majestic for $500,000, leading to optimism from the city fathers of an economic renaissance in the deprived area. However, now that Trader Joe’s and Majestic have both backed out, municipal officials called the decision "a loss for the city” and particularly for Northeast Portland.

call me surprised

However, some neighborhood residents said they were looking forward to Trader Joe’s opening and resented the PAALF’s stance. “All of my neighbors were excited to have Trader Joe’s come here and replace a lot that has always been empty,” said Nghi Tran. “It’s good quality for poor men.” (The property has been vacant for 20 years.) Tran, who has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years, blasted the PAALF, noting, “They don’t come to the neighborhood clean-ups. They don’t [even] live here anymore.”


Some local businessmen also expressed their frustration. “There are no winners today,” said Adam Milne, owner of Old Town Brewing Co., which is located near the proposed Trader Joe’s complex. “Only missed tax revenue, lost jobs, less foot traffic, an empty lot and a boulevard still struggling to support its local small businesses.” Another resident, Kymberly Jeka, an artist, wondered: “Was there a vote? This should be re-evaluated. This is not what the neighborhood people want. This is terrible.”

Grayson Dempsey, who lives near the vacant lot, said Trader Joe’s would have revitalized the neighborhood. “I moved here when there were gunshots out the window,” Dempsey said. “I appreciate that [PAALF] is trying to talk about the origins of gentrification. That’s really essential, but they can’t stand up and say, ‘As residents of the… neighborhood, this is what we want.’ The residents of the… neighborhood want this to happen.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/trader-joes-...on-neighborhood-defeat-gentrification-1553231

black leadership at its finest if u ask me

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Excellent post... brother.

YES, A SIX MEGABYTE GIF, BROTHER! IF YOUR BANDWIDTH DOESN'T HAVE 24 INCH PYTHONS, YOU'RE JOBBING TO THE MEGA POWERS OUT HERE, JACK!

 

[Hulk Hogan]

Maybe someone can fill me in on what I'm missing, I'm more than willing to try to understand, but this seems so fukking stupid.

black leadership at its finest if u ask me

THE ISSUE WAS REALLY THAT THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FUNDS INTENDED FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND USED THEM TO SUBSIDIZE A SWEET LAND DEAL WITH THEIR YACHT CLUB BUDDIES, CHAMP! THE RACE ANGLE IS A DISTRACTION, BUD!

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

My points exactly. Black leadership is useless I tell you.

 

[ORDER_66]

Whether or not the vacant lot been there for years and stores are struggling just because you bring in trader joe's does not mean your gonna have a piece of the action when they arrive, because first and foremost they gonna price you out once you cant pay rent, then you'll leave then they'll spruce up the neighborhood inviting people to move on, rents will skyrocket. it happens to every neighborhood.

These guys was right for fukking up the deal it was a big scam anyways though.

What black companies could do is lobby for other big brand name stores to move into the area and help with a revitilization project and keep the businesses minority owned!

 

[theworldismine13]

i wouldnt have a problem with the action as long as they had an actual economic plan for the area and trader joes just didnt fit into their plans, but like i was saying in the other thread there is no black economic plan

 

[Rekkapryde]

It's true though...Once a new shopping area comes to a poor area it attracts new residents and thus begin construction and the residents have their property taxes raised and thus they have to leave because only rich white residents can afford the new property. It's not a lie. look at any gentrified area, the idea starts small but then the developers see the prime real estate and only see green, they dont care about making the homes affordable to the residents that primarily reside in the area. They'll fukk them over just to make a buck. It happened in my old neighborhood, it happened in harlem. it happened in red hook.

Dog, my old man lives in Esplanade Gardens on 147th and 7th Ave in Harlem. It's HILARIOUS to me seeing white women joggin and shyt.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

If those morons had any sense, they would force trader joes to some concessions that would help the local community. Like requiring a certain percentage of the employees to be local residents, or maybe even required participation in local fundraisers and civic functions. They could have parlaid this into a win for all parties. Instead they continue with their bullshyt politics.

How much would you bet these clowns are also anti-business liberal democrats?

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Whether or not the vacant lot been there for years and stores are struggling just because you bring in trader joe's does not mean your gonna have a piece of the action when they arrive, because first and foremost they gonna price you out once you cant pay rent, then you'll leave then they'll spruce up the neighborhood inviting people to move on, rents will skyrocket. it happens to every neighborhood.

These guys was right for fukking up the deal it was a big scam anyways though.

What black companies could do is lobby for other big brand name stores to move into the area and help with a revitilization project and keep the businesses minority owned!

That's why instead of PAYING RENT nikkas need to get they weight up and start BUYING their homes. There is no reason for someone to live in a place for years and not own they're home, providing your not in government housing. That way, if gentrification does occur you could at least profit off of it. Furthemore, why do folk think that homes in a growing city are somehow "sacred?" Cities change and grow over time. Many places that were once remote get targeted for development once growth occurs.

 

[newarkhiphop]

THE ISSUE WAS REALLY THAT THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FUNDS INTENDED FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND USED THEM TO SUBSIDIZE A SWEET LAND DEAL WITH THEIR YACHT CLUB BUDDIES, CHAMP! THE RACE ANGLE IS A DISTRACTION, BUD!

sorry hogan i read your post and the letter and cant find no truth to the claim of corruption although AM SURE it is happening somewhere, at least nothing backed by facts , but the claims by this organization seems to be fishy also

on a different note them asking for affordable housing to be put there , how do they expect to revitalize a black neighborhood by essentially asking for projects to be built instead of something that will stimulate the local economy.

 

[Rekkapryde]

If those morons had any sense, they would force trader joes to some concessions that would help the local community. Like requiring a certain percentage of the employees to be local residents, or maybe even required participation in local fundraisers and civic functions. They could have parlaid this into a win for all parties. Instead they continue with their bullshyt politics.

How much would you bet these clowns are also anti-business liberal democrats?

The problem is what Hogan says below. THAT is fukked up and it shows what the deal really was.

THE ISSUE WAS REALLY THAT THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FUNDS INTENDED FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND USED THEM TO SUBSIDIZE A SWEET LAND DEAL WITH THEIR YACHT CLUB BUDDIES, CHAMP! THE RACE ANGLE IS A DISTRACTION, BUD!

I'm kinda torn on this. I understand trying to prevent gentrification, but the eyesores gotta go too. Shame on the city politicians though using money intended for the lower economic areas to fatten the pockets of the rich though.

 

[Rekkapryde]

That's why instead of PAYING RENT nikkas need to get they weight up and start BUYING their homes. There is no reason for someone to live in a place for years and not own they're home, providing your not in government housing. That way, if gentrification does occur you could at least profit off of it. Furthemore, why to folk think that homes in a growing city are somehow "sacred?" Cities change and grow over time. Many places that were once remote get targeted for development once growth occurs.

So many mufukkaz have eaten off of Harlem gentrification from what my father said that it's rediculous. If mufukkaz only knew how valuable their property is.

Same shyt in downtown Charleston SC where I'm from. Only difference is dumb mufukkaz accepting the 100k that the cacs are giving them for their homes but they turn around and flip it for a half a million on up there.


Sell your valuable home, buy a new car and start renting brehs....shyt disgusts me.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Whether or not the vacant lot been there for years and stores are struggling just because you bring in trader joe's does not mean your gonna have a piece of the action when they arrive, because first and foremost they gonna price you out once you cant pay rent, then you'll leave then they'll spruce up the neighborhood inviting people to move on, rents will skyrocket. it happens to every neighborhood.

These guys was right for fukking up the deal it was a big scam anyways though.

What black companies could do is lobby for other big brand name stores to move into the area and help with a revitilization project and keep the businesses minority owned!

ok but what did they really achieve? they gained NOTHING, the lot remains vacant. Residents don't have access to food they might have wanted ( we can speculate all day about this) jobs that could have been filled by blacks will not , money that could have came into the neighborhood will not .

Instead you know whats gonna happen trader joes gonna go a couple of counties over , find them a white neighborhood that does want them there, will get subsidies just as good. Feed some white people, gives some white teens job etc etc anddddddd on top of that any other business that might want to move in there is going to now think twice this could include another from other grocery stores to pharmacies