Grove Street Center is seen in this file photo.A small convenience store could open in Chattanooga’s West Side within the next few weeks, according to two potential store owners.
“We’ll have a little bit of everything, like a small Walmart,” Amin Ali, who manages Golden Gateway Apartments, said Tuesday to a group of more than 70 residents at the Renaissance Church.
The meeting was put together by the local advocacy group Chattanooga Organized for Action.
Ali helped prospective store owners Shehnaz Mirza and Karim Badruddin answer West Side residents’ questions about the business, which they say they want to open in the Grove Street Center.
College Hill Courts resident Betty Bishop said she lived in the community when past promises of a grocery store were made and never materialized. But she has faith in this effort, she said.