Provides an overview of Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) analysis, a tool available on PolicyMap to identify areas with need for intervention re healthy food access.

A model business plan to develop a grocery store and raise capital from banks, investors or grant companies.

GreenChill’s Store Certification Program for Food Retailers recognizes individual stores for using environmentally friendlier commercial refrigeration systems. Any food retail store in the United States, whether in the design phase, remodel phase, newly constructed, or fully operational, can apply for GreenChill’s Store Certification Award.

In 2001 the Food Trust started a campaign to address the lack of access to healthy foods in Philadelphia, resulting in seventy-eight additional fresh food outlets. This success has led to interest from other states and the federal government in expanding the initiative. This is The Food Trust’s five-step framework for increasing access to fresh, healthy food in other locales.

The California FreshWorks Fund disbursed $8.5 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing for tenant improvements and other costs related to the development of a new 42,625 square foot, full-service Northgate Gonzalez Market.

Michelle Obama Visits Inglewood for Freshworks Grocery Store Launch. Northgate Gonzalez Markets will receive $20 million in financing to open the Inglewood store and two other markets in City Heights and South Los Angeles.

The Food, Environment, and Economic Development (FEED) Act aims to close the grocery gap and capture those opportunities while also enabling more residents to eat a healthy diet. In creates incentives to draw full-service grocery stores to low-income food deserts and provides funding for a Healthy Food Retail Program.

The Reinvestment Fund’s Supermarket Study of Low Access Areas. Includes an analysis estimating food access for the purpose of: identifying area underserved by full-service supermarkets and further stratifying underserved areas as having significant grocery retail leakage, demand, and lack of access.

The Denver Food Access Task Force released this report, which outlines policy recommendations to improve access to affordable, healthy food and stimulate economic development in Denver and throughout Colorado.

This report contains recommendations developed by the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee. The recommendations address ways the city and state officials can support increasing the number of retail outlets that sell fresh fruits and vegetables in communities that desperately need them.