Whole Foods Market plans to launch a monthly fresh food market on the east campus of the former St. Elizabeths hospital beginning April 5, bringing the chain’s natural and organic foods to one of the most impoverished areas of Southeast.
Scott Allshouse, Mid-Atlantic regional president for Whole Foods, said Whole Foods would donate all of its profits to charitable organizations in the area, which includes the Anacostia, Barry Farm, Congress Heights and Douglass neighborhoods.
The grocer is slated to make the announcement Tuesday morning at Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s regular press briefing, to be held at St. Elizabeths.
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