My best guess is that there is some other mega corporation that would like to take over, but the Korean business owners need to be gone first.
Councilwoman Bass is black and blacks don’t like Korean store owners in their neighborhoods. I think she’s trying to run them off for her primary constituency.
Obvious.
“My best guess is that there is some other mega corporation that would like to take over, but the Korean business owners need to be gone first.”
Trust me on this, chain stores do not want to be in blighted areas. Several cities have tried to attract chain stores as grocery stores in particular don’t want to locate in high crime areas. It doesn’t matter what the deal is, chain stores will not locate in bad areas. Here’s just one article chosen at random.
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-have-all-the-inner-city-grocery-stores-gone-2012-4