Resident-led grocery store, marketplace and affordable housing complex breaks ground in Montbello

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FreshLo Hub is a result of years of planning and fundraising after the community found itself in a food desert following the 2008-09 recession. via RussellHaythorn

DENVER — The words"renewal,""rebirth" and"reawakening" have perhaps never been more appropriate than they are right now in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood.The groundbreaking of the Montbello FreshLo Hub is a project years in the making. The $85 million hub comes not by the hands of some big investor from another city or state, but by the hands of a community lifting itself up and building a better tomorrow.

He said the community there is special because it refuses to accept what other people perceive about it. It will feature affordable housing, a theater, a performance hall, retail, arts, and perhaps most importantly, a grocery store in one of Denver’s most notable food deserts. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock did not hold anything back on that point.

Rather than a traditional grocer like King Soopers or Safeway, FreshLo will be a nonprofit, mission-driven grocer.

 

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