Additionally, many area businesses cater to a particular ethnicity – Pars Persian Store is a great example, it’s located on the same block, and is thriving. We also have strictly Lebanese and Mediterranean restaurants in the neighborhood, as well as the Swedish Museum and all of those places are doing just fine.

I think this family is just sidetracked with other life events and stopped taking care of the place. While that’s understandable on their end, it’s understandable on ours that we don’t want to buy food where rats take dumps, where food is stored at temps that can cause life threatening illnesses and where people wipe their nether regions and then don’t wash their hands.