Beverly Biggs-Leavy’s dream of reopening her popular Flint restaurant came true in an unexpected way Oct. 5. Hamady Complete Food Center welcomed customers to Beverly’s, a carryout soul food eatery that will eventually become a unique, dine-in restaurant at the site of the grocery store. Biggs-Leavy, who was forced to close the doors of Beverly’s […]
When the last big-box grocery store left Flint, about 100,000 residents were left with one less major shopping option for affordable, fresh food. The void punctuated by Kroger’s closing on Davison Road in 2015 left residents, community leaders and local government to seek solutions, but the effort has grown into something bigger. Several independent retail […]
