A documentary profiling Dan and Judy Brown of Gravelwood Farm in Maine, and the issues surrounding the lawsuit filed against them by the State of Maine and Maine Department of Agriculture. Topics range from the importance of producing food locally to the control over food policy by corporate-influenced government regulatory agencies.

This report outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of inner-city markets and provides the experience of grocery retailers serving inner-city communities. It seeks to uncover key principles for grocery retailers to operate profitably in inner-city communities.

San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar introduced legislation called the Healthy Food Retailer Incentives Program. The proposal takes aim at a long-standing challenge in San Francisco to ensure there are an adequate number of grocery stores, especially in low-income neighborhoods.

San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar announces that he would introduce legislation that aims to form an incentive program for city food retailers to market and sell fresh food, especially more produce, and cut back on high fat and sugar items and tobacco and alcohol products.

Supervisor Eric Mar has a new proposal to establish a Healthy Food Incentive Program to encourage small corner stores to stock fresh produce in San Francisco. He hasn’t settled on what the incentives might be to encourage merchants to sell more fresh food, but it might include small business loans or some hands-on assistance from the city to make the switch to fresh produce.

Case profile of supermarket and retail center built in North Philadelphia financed with New Market Tax Credits.

Defines the range of financing options for Mid-Tier Food Chain Enterprises and provides multiple case studies. It also addresses sources and uses of financing, assessing feasibility, loan underwriting, and key financial ratios relevant to food-related businesses.

San Francisco Supervisor Mar says a recent city analysis shows that hundreds of mom-and-pop shops would close if more big-box chains start selling groceries in San Francisco. To save the small stores Mar wants to give shop owners incentives to sell more fresh fruits and vegetables.

This paper outlines the opportunities in each of the major steps along the food supply chain. The analysis is informed heavily by three local food economy assessments. It has also been informed by past engagements with investors and intermediaries working across the food chain with a broad range of objectives.

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.