NEW YORK — Wakefern Food Corp. aims to leverage funding provided through the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities (HFHC) Fund to build stores in underserved neighborhoods — so-called "food deserts" that lack access to fresh foods — in New York City and its suburbs, said Dennis Bachman, senior real estate representative for Wakefern.

Wakefern Targets NYC Food Deserts
NEW YORK — Wakefern Food Corp. aims to leverage funding provided through the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities (HFHC) Fund to build stores in underserved neighborhoods — so-called 'food deserts' that lack access to fresh foods — in New York City and its suburbs, said Dennis Bachman, senior real estate representative for Wakefern.