Downtown Phoenix is home to two professional sports teams, a university campus and scores of apartment complexes and condos. But the crowded urban center of the nation’s fifth-largest city lacked a grocery store for residents and visitors.
The Oct. 23 opening of a Fry’s Food and Drug Store will mean downtown now longer will be a food desert for residents living within a 1-mile radius.
Food deserts in Arizona number about 700,000, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. Downtown…
