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USDA Grant Will Aid Co-op’s Eau Claire Expansion
15 Jul 2022
News, Eau Claire
Menomonie Market Food Co-op is $200,000 closer to its goal of opening a much larger, full-service grocery store in downtown Eau Claire. The cooperative announced recently that it was one of 134 grantees that will receive financial assistance through the latest round of a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program.
The America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative’s Targeted Small Grants Program issued $22.6 million in grants in late June. “This award is crucial to realizing the longtime goal of putting a full-service grocery store in downtown Eau Claire, currently identified as a food desert by the United States Census Bureau,” Crystal Halvorson, Menomonie Market Food Co-op general manager, said in a media release. “We won the maximum amount of $200,000, and that money will go directly to the construction costs for our new building. With the current complexities in construction including inflation and supply issues, this award is very timely.”
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