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Local community organization hopes its plans to open a nonprofit grocery store in a hard-hit Cedar Rapids neighborhood will help bring new activity and investment to the area.
A local community group is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a grocery store in the urban core of Cedar Rapids, a key step in a neighborhood that was hard-hit during the 2008 flood, with scores of homes destroyed or leveled during city buyouts.
Establishing a non-profit grocery store in what was once an empty building in Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood would be a big deal. Opening the store is part of a larger effort by the group Matthew 25 to help residents and homeowners rebuild in the area on the northwest side of the city.