The City of Tallahassee will host a groundbreaking ceremony for a neighborhood grocery store on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 10 a.m., at the corner of Alabama and Harlem streets in the heart of Griffin Heights.
This construction project will deliver a 2,500-square-foot building designed to house a grocery vendor that will provide fresh and healthy food options.
The grocery store was identified as a top-priority project through the City’s Neighborhood First planning process with Griffin Heights residents. The plan was adopted by the City Commission in 2021, and subsequently, the Mayor and City Commissioners advanced the project, supporting the purchase of the property followed by an approval of approximately $1.3 million to fund construction.
“Bringing a grocery store to Griffin Heights has been a priority for the neighborhood, and it’s taken a tremendous collective planning effort to reach this point,” Mayor John Dailey said. “Residents clearly voiced what they needed, and I’m both proud and excited to see their vision come to life as construction begins.”
The City undertook an extensive and proactive effort to engage neighborhood residents, ensure their voices were heard and garner input that Architects Lewis+Whitlock (ALW) used to design the store and develop building plans. The final design includes architectural elements that complement the neighborhood and an outdoor covered pavilion for community engagement activities. Tip Top Construction will build the structure, which is anticipated to be complete in 2026.
For more information about the project, visit Talgov.com.
City to Host Groundbreaking Ceremony for Griffin Heights Grocery Store added by Staff on
View all posts by Staff →
Great idea. After all the government does such a great job in everything it does. Just look at the DMV. Also the stores in Cuba and all third world country’s.
DontBeRacist,
When everything is racist, nothing is.
Grocery stores are not a problem for government to solve. That’s the simplicity of the matter, despite your finger pointing and screeching.
All of these comments reek of privilege and racism. Just because you can drive around the corner and go to a local grocery store doesn’t mean that everyone can. God forbid people want access to fresh food and vegetables. Your comments are exactly why we are where we are in this city, state, and county.
Remind me in 5 years of this. Until crime is dealt with this is not likely to succeed without subsidy.
Let the money laundering begin!
This is an excellent example why city commissioners should be elected by district instead of at large. If city commissioners were elected by district the only votes this dumb idea would have received would be from the Griffin Heights area.
@TONY Dollar General knows a store in that area will lose money and be a node for crime. Private companies have to be profitable while the government does not.
CFO Ingoglia please look into the city of Tallahassee for wasteful projects like this one. The city cannot properly fund it’s fire department but can somehow find $1.3 million for this boondoggle. What a shame.
If a grocery store was economically viable in that area, a grocery store would have been built there by a private business. It’s going to fail, or the City of Tallahassee will be expected to pump money into it for years to come as it fails to meet those extremely slim grocery margins.
This is stupid.
Hmmmmm…………. THIS sounds just like something Zohran Mamdani wants to do in New York, a government owned grocery store. Will that $1.3 million to fund construction get paid back? The plans include an outdoor covered pavilion for community engagement activities, such as, 50 to 100 black youths hanging out at night until someone pulls a gun and starts shooting into the crowd? You probably could have just paid Dollar General a $Million Dollars to build a DG Grocery Stores like the one they have at Wakulla Station.