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Nyasia Gonzales's avatar

The primary concerns about the King Soopers move for me are the sales tax loss, of course, but also the loss of accessible fresh groceries for some of the population. A couple of questions about that:

1) Is the tax sharing agreement for Nine Mile indefinite, or is there an expiration when Lafayette may not get any tax revenue from there?

2) Has there been any talk from the city about trying to attract specifically grocery stores? I know that Kroger is trying to keep us from at leasing using that building as a source of fresh food (that's what happens when you have giant monopolies especially w/ the merger), but I'm hoping there could be another site not as far. If you don't have a car and live in Old Town or the retirement community, then walking to Sprouts or across the hwy to Walmart is not so easy.

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Steve Wiitala's avatar

This is another comment from a relative community newbie. How can the nine-mine property (South East Corner of Arapaho and 287 be in Erie and the Tebo property (South West Corner of Arapaho and 287 not be in the same jurisdiction. I guess despite Colorado being rectangular, Colorado towns are not rectangular. Do they need another grocery store there? There would be Safeway/Krogers/??? although I suppose if the merger goes through Safeway would not survive

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