North Tulsa Grocery Solution … Revisited
I offered a solution to North Tulsa’s grocery woes in December 2008. Did anyone take my suggestion? No. No one usually does.
Now that the owner, Antonio Perez, of Gateway Market says he may have to close. It’s time to revisit this idea.
The $2.2 million grant given to Perez to open the store is counterproductive. Money has been spent to buy an empty building that will probably be empty again. Instead of spending the money and resources to find a grocer for North Tulsa, we should move North Tulsans south. This is not a racist statement about eliminating North Tulsa. It’s just that is where the grocery stores are. Let’s move everyone to where the food is.
By using grant money to move Tulsans to where the grocery stores are will stimulate economic growth and actually bring a grocery store to North Tulsa. Here’s how:
1) Move North Tulsans south.
2) Construction industry builds homes to accommodate upsurge in residents.
3) Construction stimulates new jobs.
4) New jobs create growth.
5) Tulsa grows back North.
6) In 100 years, a permanent grocery store finally reopens in North Tulsa, along with Walmart, Target and McBuy (by 2110, Best Buy will merge will McDonald’s).
By moving everyone out of North Tulsa, we will actually bring a permanent grocery store to North Tulsa. (Once again, not racist.)
Is this any more ridiculous than offering a $2.2 million grant to open a store for a couple of months? Is this any more ridiculous than residents complaining there is no grocery store, then complaining when there is one? Is this any more ridiculous than believing Kristen Glover and Hannah Montana are the same person?
Yes, it’s just as ridiculous.
They should turn turn that building into a giant Laser Tag arena.
Everyone wants to open a store where you get shoplifters, gang bangers, and armed robbers by day.
And at night they just drive a stolen car through the front, or cut through the walls or roof at night, and loot the place……..not