Nearly lost amid the hubbub of Tuesday’s announcement that G&W Foods hopes to build a new grocery store in downtown Iola was the other portion of the ambitious project — new housing complexes.
As reported previously in the Register — and elsewhere in today’s newspaper — the bigger dream is to have the grocery store be the centerpiece of a complete neighborhood redevelopment at the old Allen County Hospital site.
Thrive Allen County Executive Director David Toland and former mayor John McRae, representing Iola…
Backers: Grocery store would anchor ‘new neighborhood’
