Mandela Foods: Urban Art Gallery?
Regular readers of East Bay Conservative will know how absolutely absurd I find the Mandela Foods Cooperative anti-poverty experiment and its main supporter, City Council member Nancy Nadel. I recently dropped by the site for an update on its status. It would appear its mission has shifted somewhat.
During the runup to the election, Nadel said that the coop just needed more time to get off the ground.That claim is becoming increasingly unbelievable. And, with Nadel’s recent reelection, we can all await the coop’s inevitable demand for more money.
In any event, the following are two pictures snapped Monday, June 9. The first shows some excellent urban art spraypainted on the coop’s window. This is what is so nice about failed urban-renewal projects: the business failure is just the beginning of the show. Now come the taggers, and next we can probably expect to see a drug dealer set up shop in the back.
Speak of the devil. This second picture seems to indicate that they are building a small hiding place in the back of the coop’s space. Is this where they’ll hid the weed? Only time will tell. For now, the space continues to sit vacant, costing the city economically and in quality of life.
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Mandela Foods’ website says it is waiting for permits. Where can the average citizen go to find these permit applications?
How long do the permits usually take to get approval?
Mandela Foods’ website also states that it has the hardware; refrigerators, etc. Where is this stuff being store? Since Mandela Foods received $300K of public money, aren’t these issues supposed to be transparent?
I want to know!