Existing Regional Food Cooperatives Maple City Market Goshen

Existing Regional Food Cooperatives Maple City Market Goshen Common Ground Co-op, Urbana, Illinois Three Rivers Food Co-op Grocery Ft. Wayne Blooming Foods [3 x] Bloomington Clear Creek Food Co-op Richmond River City Food Co-op Evansville Locally Sown Community Grown

Cooperative Startups in Indiana Purple Porch Co-op, South Bend City Foods, Lafayette Terre Food, Terre Haute Indy Food, Indianapolis Mooresville Food Co-op Lost River Co-op, Paoli Locally Sown Community Grown

Comparison of Assorted Communities with Food Co-ops CO-OP CITY METRO AREA Blooming Foods [three stores] Bloomington 121, 000 Maple City Market Goshen 191, 770 3 Rivers Co-op & Deli Ft Wayne 340, 200 Clear Creek Richmond 69, 780 Neighborhood Co-op & Grocery Carbondale IL 59, 600 Common Ground Urbana IL 185, 200 New Pioneer [two stores] Iowa City IA 147, 000 CITY FOODS Lafayette 164, 200 Locally Sown Community Grown

SNAPSHOT Neighborhood Cooperative, Carbondale, IL • Recently expanded to new location: 12, 000 ft 2 – 7, 000 ft 2 retail Jackson County, Illinois – population 59, 600

Neighborhood Cooperative - Carbondale, IL • 32 ‘full-time equivalent’ employees – Produce manager – Merchandise groceries manager – ‘Front End’ customer service manager – Deli manager – Office and personnel manager – Brand Development manager (marketing) • 50 employees total – those +30 hrs receive health insurance • All employees receive paid time off for vacations • Sales of $3. 4 million dollars/yr • 2000 members [$100 membership share] • 25 years in business “a mature co-op” Locally Sown Community Grown

So let’s say…”City Foods could easily be of similar size as Carbondale’s Neighborhood Cooperative” Consider of the benefits of having……. • A full-service grocery in downtown Lafayette • A business with ~ 3 million dollars retail sales annually • 30 employees working downtown (with benefits) • A new ‘Downtown Destination’ a magnet business that would benefit neighboring specialty stores • One less empty storefront • A year-round point of sale for locally grown produce – with multiplier effects throughout Tippecanoe County, keeping local money local !!!

What are we looking for? • Downtown location – a site with “X” characteristics Where “X” = sales potential at specific sites • ~ 3, 000 – 4, 000 square foot space, perhaps more? • About 6 parking spaces for every 1, 000 ft 2 sales area

Plenty of possibilities… Locally Sown Community Grown

Next moves… • Continue engaging the Greater Lafayette Community • Develop http: //cityfoods. org website – make it more personable! • Continue membership drive • Write and formalize feasibility study • Create a virtual City Foods Co-op, from it derive assumptions with realistic pro forma income and expenditures • Combine feasibility study narrative and pro forma budget into a well-crafted business plan Locally Sown Community Grown

Locally Sown Community Grown http: //cityfoods. org

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Lost River Market & Deli – Paoli, Indiana

River City Coop, Evansville Indiana

River City Coop, Evansville Indiana

River City Co-op, Evansville Indiana • The co-op is in an old Victorian House with apartments upstairs.