Wells Fargo gives $1.5M to support co-op grocery on Charlotte’s West Boulevard

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wells Fargo is making a big investment to Charlotte’s West Boulevard community.

On April 7, the banking institution announced a $1.5 million donation to the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition to support development of Three Sisters Market Food Co-op, a community-owned grocery store proposed for the West Boulevard Corridor. The bank’s contribution would be among the largest commitments to the project to date as organizers work to bring a full-service grocery store to an area that has faced long-running challenges with food access.Read More

Three Sisters Market, a Charlotte Urban Institute-backed food cooperative, receives a $1.5 million boost from Wells Fargo

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The Three Sisters Market, an aspirational, community-owned food cooperative targeted for Charlotte’s West Boulevard corridor, long championed by the Charlotte Urban Institute, alongside Johnson C. Smith University and prominent west Charlotte community leaders, is a step closer to breaking ground.

On April 7, Wells Fargo, one of the city’s largest banking institutions, announced a $1.5 million gift to the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition, which is spearheading the market’s development. When completed, the market will be the first full-service grocery store in nearly 40 years for the neighborhood, described by residents as a “food desert.” Read more

New grocery store to end 30-year food desert in this west Charlotte neighborhood, Three Sisters Market

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Plans are underway to open a grocery store in an underserved Charlotte community for the first time in 30 years.

The West Boulevard neighborhood is considered a food desert with no reliable access to affordable and nutritious food.

“I do not know if this community understands how unlevel the playing field has been,” said Janiqua Jackson, the general manager of the planned Three Sisters Market.

The Market will be a 12,000 square foot grocery store located at West Boulevard and Clanton Road. Read more at Queen City News

“We knew we had to build it”: The Story of the Three Sisters Market and West Blvd corridor

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Rickey Hall grew up in the West Blvd corridor. He remembers the stores that used to sit on every corner, the neighborhoods and neighbors that looked out for each other and the schools that helped shaped him including Amay James Elementary school, an all-Black school between Clanton Road and Tyvola Roads.

“We had inferior books, but we did not have inferior minds,” he said. Read More at the City of Charlotte

‘It’s hard’: Charlotte group short on funds to build long-awaited co-op grocery store, Three Sisters Market

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The West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition’s effort to bring a grocery co-op to a Charlotte community termed a food desert has yet to materialize, and the project is short on funds.

Organizers with the coalition said they started strategizing to fill a void of a grocery store in the community in 2015, to bring the Three Sisters Market to the West Boulevard corridor. The area has been without a full-service grocery store for more than 30 years. But that void has yet to be filled. Read more at WFAE

Three Sisters Market awaits full funding, plans for long-awaited grocery store

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Jul 7, 2025 — Work on Three Sisters Market, a local initiative to bring a grocery store to Charlotte’s West Boulevard corridor for the first time in three decades, has stalled as backers work to secure additional funding, its executive director said. The project was initially set to be completed last month. But since the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition announced the initiative in 2023, the organization has raised only a third of the funds needed to make the project a reality. Read the full article at the Charlotte Observer

West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition celebrates progress toward community-owned grocery store

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Despite numerous setbacks in securing a grocery store, members of the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition say the opening of Three Sisters Market, a community-owned food cooperative that is planned for the corner of Romare Bearden Drive and West Boulevard, is now within sight. The co-op is expected to open in 2025. Continuing reading here.