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This Indianapolis neighborhood wants a grocery store. It s competing with others. Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star
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As a child, Sabae Martin could walk just 0.2 miles from her house on Capitol Avenue to the Seven-Eleven Supermarket.
So could her classmates, she recalls, with a shopping list from their mothers and change in their pocket.
At that time in the late 1960s, the Butler-Tarkington area had multiple grocery stores. Now, Martin stands in an empty parking lot where the Standard Grocery used to be, just across the street from the tattered building that once housed the Seven-Eleven, which later became known as the Double 8 grocery store.