Mom's Kitchen
1008 NW 5th Avenue
Gainesville, Florida
...
family owned and operated
from the 1940's
before closing in 2006
...
Gainesville's first SOUL FOOD restaurant
..
purchased by the City of Gainesville
in 2009 for $165,000
( twice the estimated value of the property )
for the purpose of renovating and creating
a museum and helping revitalize the neighborhood
...
fast forward to 2013
and the City Building Dept. has deemed the
building unsafe posing a fire hazard
and in danger of collapse
..
so the building remains shuttered and closed...
the elephant in the room
