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Missouri

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

2. Happy to pass it along

Reply to Wait Wut (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 02:02 PM

Oct 2013

I suppose every city has it's food deserts, although I for one was unaware of this area being one. I would have thought it more likely that they would occur in the North St. Louis City area which has suffered years of urban decay and is now the focus of an ongoing controversy over a major redevelopment project that is buying up properties and hoping for tax incentives if I recall correctly.