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Supermarket Gentrification: Part of “the Dietary Divide”
Peter Zelchenko
http://zelchenko.comhttp://[email protected]
Food planning: Unprecedented interdisciplinary activity
• Formalized policy/research initiatives
– CSU Department of Geography NAC
– Chicago Food System Collaborative
– Children: CLOCC and Healthy Schools Campaign
– MCIC’s “Chain Reaction” Study
– Family Farmed
– Institute for Community Resource Development
– Policy Research Action Group: Loyola + CSU, DePaul, NLU, UIC
Food planning...
• Activists and local organizations
– CCCP, CDPH
– Claire Pentecost
– Dock Walls and CFABC: Reform Dominick’s
– Pat Dowell-Cerasoli and NWSCDC
– West Town and the war for “independents”
Food planning...• Officials
– Alds. Laurino and Flores’ Supermarket Task Force
– Minority legislators for CLOCC’s Consensus Agenda
– Ald. Flores’s anti-restrictive covenant ordinance
– City’s increased promotion of farmers markets
Food planning...
• Farms and CSAs
– Growing Home
– Ken Dunn’s City Farm
– Regional CSAs and farms
The trouble in West Town
• Gentrifying community losing last independent supermarkets
• Observations
– Prices: Found Jewel and Dominick’s prices significantly higher
– Store size: Found Jewel and Dominick’s obsessed with much larger stores...
The trouble in West Town...
• Observations...
– Why are they so big and why do they cost more?
– The land value hypothesis
– But many shoppers prefer multiple medium-size markets nearby, not one big megastore
• Draw a connection to the high and low ends
Solution: Core services initiative
• Obtain land
• Establish special occupancy conditions
• Incentives: Rent, taxes artificially reduced
• We did it backwards in West Town
Solution: Core services initiative...
• Implementation
– Roll out immediately in identified emergency areas
– Ultimate goal is to have walkable competition for services
