Takes a While to Steal All the Money.

I had no idea he was in Bum Fuck, Texas. Now I feel sorry for him, hope he gets his car running and gets out of there.

Fair enough.

That would be the price for a building ready to be occupied and used, not comparable to the cost of building a grocery store from scratch.

As usual, you're making an invalid comparison.

Stupid Tom.

It have already that there is no metric that shows madmanis construction cost are in line with normal costs.

Stupid kevin 

What an elegantly constructed sentence, supporting a brilliant argument.

Has anyone noticed the liberal math problem here. 

One store will cost $30m & the other 4 will only cost $10m each?

If one something is worth three times another something, then it SHOULD cost three times as much.

You barfed out an irrelevant real estate listing to show what that property was worth. Isn't a property worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it?

If the taxpayers are paying for a property, its usefulness is what justifies its cost. I already schooled you on how that part of town has a relative dearth of grocery stores. 100 square blocks has a population of several hundred thousand.

But that concept seems to be beyond you.

When stupid Kevin finds himself in a hole he keeps digging 

If NYC overpays for a property nobody wanted is it really worth the price?

If the store goes out of business (like the cry owned store in KC) was it worth the investment?

With a $5b deficit should the city be spending money on a business it knows nothing about?

Numerous examples have been posted that show the store costs are triple normal costs. 

There are 5 other stores within 5 blocks including a 30,000 foot Shop Fair a block away. In addition there is a Costco less than 2 miles away.  And yes the membership fee is paid back within 1 trip

kevin who never been to Harlem seems to know more than a local resident 

Look who just went to school. 

Well one is new building construction from the ground up while the others are renovations of current buildings. 

(Not saying I think a city owned and run grocery store is a good idea) 

Interesting that you are so upset about the cost of getting food to Americans in a difficult environment--how much did one day of "bombing them back to the Stone Age" cost?