When the Rite Aid off West 65th St. and Franklin Boulevard announced earlier this summer it would be closing, a small wave of disappointment fell over Christina Keim and Mark Galit. Filing and picking up prescriptions would be a bit harder.
"It's a huge equity issue. It signals that we’re no longer a fully walkable neighborhood—in a community where many households don’t have access to cars."
Filing and picking up prescriptions would be a bit harder. Grabbing a few pantry items or cleaning supplies would require a 10-minute drive or a 20-minute ride on the 71 bus."I mean, I can't tell you the times I walked over there just to grab something like milk, you know," Keim, 46, a dental hygienist, told Scene from Galit's porch off West 65th."Just anything that we needed at that specific time, you know, that you can't get from Amazon.
"It's a huge equity issue," Ward 15 Councilwoman Jenny Spencer, whose ward includes the Franklin Rite Aid, wrote in a statement."It signals that we’re no longer a fully walkable neighborhood—in a community where many households don’t have access to cars." "It's hard, because Cleveland's not really a growth market," Ryan Fisher, senior vice president of CRESCO, told Scene. Fisher chalked the exodus up to plain capitalist decisions. Pharmacies are "simply saying, this location doesn't work for me. I'm either going to not continue on or I'm going to go dark, finish off my lease, and then that will be it."
But the constraints and cold truths of big business mean little to neighbors in the blocks surrounding the Franklin Blvd. Rite Aid, which, as of Thursday, was covered in yellow signs announcing its eminent closure. be bought elsewhere, via prescription delivery services, via Amazon, via other stores. But for many, there's the issue of transportation and access. The nearest pharmacies lie either miles away on Clark or on 117th.
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