The lot at the base of the Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan has been vacant for two decades. Residents of the neighborhood have been waiting that long for the large shopping center that city officials long ago promised would transform their neighborhood.
Next week, after years of delays stemming from political wrangling, conflicting ownership claims and a sluggish real estate market, developers Shea Properties and Chelsea Investment Corp. will finally break ground on the Mercado del Barrio Project.
When it’s completed in the summer of 2012, the development on 6.8 acres will introduce 92 affordable apartments to the low-income, largely Latino community, storefronts for small businesses, and perhaps what neighborhood residents have been most eagerly awaiting: their first supermarket.
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