Manchester Pizza Shop Receives Some CARE
Richmond BizSense.com takes a look at the Richmond’s Commercial Area Revitalization Effort, or CARE program. The CARE program is a partnership between local neighborhood merchants, residents, and the city of Richmond to provide rebates and loans in areas and locations that might be overlooked otherwise. One of the businesses highlighted is Papa’s Pizza in Manchester;
Drew Papa and Ricardo Cucuzza opened Papa’s Pizza, Pasta and Subs at 214 Hull Street Road using CARE funds to transform a rundown building into a bustling carry out pizza place.
“This building was basically a shell before. It needed a lot of investment,” said Cucuzza.
Papa’s received a $6,000 rebate from renovating the building’s interior and exterior and install security.
While I understand the overall motives and appreciate helping people, I am just not sure the City should be in the pizzeria business.
By the way, is Papa’s Pizza paying the outrageous meals tax, which in part has been used to fund Center Stage? (Many citizens resent the City being in the opera business).
It seems to me there a bigger public priorites, namely education and transportation.
Hear, hear, anonymous.
The City isn’t in the pizza business.
The City is providing incentives and spurring economic growth in under served neighborhoods.
Papa’s pizza is very good, from what I hear, and they deliver to my neck of the woods which is otherwise a delivery black hole, so I think that this is good news for us.