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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Food News Last clean up on aisle nine
Posted By Tricia Childress on Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Here’s my take on the closing of Reid’s Fine Foods at the end of June: When Pam and Chuck Richards opened the place in 1998, downtown Charlotte was in its infancy – maybe just a twinkle in Hugh McColl’s eye. There was no grocery store. And without a place to buy food, folks just weren’t going to be moving downtown. The Richards left (enticed to leave) their cushy digs in Myers Park to move downtown. They waited for the light rail and the density of First Ward to approach their location– the latter's still not there, by the way.
Meanwhile Reid’s has carried many local or North Carolina produced food items and was the place I went for Crooks grits.
Now there is competition – which only goes to show what these urban pioneers achieved: more residents downtown. We all benefit from having a vibrant city center.
The Richards plan to relocate Reid's.
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