The space is just under 1,000sf and was home to a woman's boutique called Diva Diva. She closed her doors roughly 3 years ago and the space has been sitting vacant ever since.The space belongs to the mixed use development called The Fillmore Center (TFC), a mixture of 1,114 residential apartment homes and 30,000sf of commercial space.
For better (or worse), we're next door to Starbucks. The other food options within 300 feet of our restaurant are--get ready for this--Subway, Popeyes, Taco Bell, KFC, Panda Express, Safeway, and a bunch of Korean joints (of course Mc D's and BK are right up the street too). So this is the deal, you have an area of the city where there's a large number of government housing projects, the aforementioned fast food joints stammer to open up shop. They serve a heavily processed, nutritiously bereft, low cost food product that destroys the health of the people living there. Now, granted, no one puts a gun to their heads and says, "eat this or else...", but it's pretty obvious what's going on here. That's why this is such a great opportunity. We have the chance to change things. We will be the first restaurant in many decades to offer nurishing food at a comfortable price point to a community that is literally dying to eat well.
We can't tell you how excited we are to give people this option. Cyrick and I have lived and worked in this neighborhood for many years and the frustration factor is at a 10 when it's time to eat. I call the current food options, "emergency food" because there's no way these lips are munchin' down on a leg 'n' thigh value meal unless I'm really hard-up, and by hard-up I mean crack addicition or worse.
So for those of you out there who have the means--meaning choice--to eat well, count you're blessings!
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