For neighborhood leaders trying to nurture local businesses that could help turn around Baltimore’s struggling Greenmount Avenue corridor, yet another “dollar store” is pretty much the opposite of what they want.
So they were deeply disappointed by news that Nashville-based Dollar General Corp., with 18,000 stores nationwide, is opening up a new one at 3133 Greenmount Avenue, the former site of a Rite Aid Pharmacy.
Waverly had just held its latest “Small Business Saturday” event to elevate the kind of locally owned, community retailers they want more of: relative newcomers, like Bmore Pasta and Urban Reads Bookstore, together with mainstays like the 23-year-old Herman’s Discount.
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