@article{Blackmore:312020,
      recid = {312020},
      author = {Blackmore, W. Edward and Clowes, Harry G. },
      title = {Detroit Wholesale Food-Distribution Facilities  },
      address = {1963-07},
      number = {2393-2021-1752},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 607},
      pages = {170},
      year = {1963},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report:  This study was initiated in the  fall of 1957, at the request of the Detroit Tomorrow  Committee.  This group was a civic nonprofit organization  of 250 business and industry representatives, appointed by  the Mayor of Detroit, to assist in the planning of civic  facilities for the proper development of the city.  The  request was prompted principally by its Urban Development  Committee and a subcommittee on Commercial Development.   The Detroit Tomorrow Committee, recognizing that proper  distribution facilities for food should be provided in a  comprehensive plan for the redevelopment of certain areas  of the city, wished to determine the need for new food  handling facilities in the Detroit metropolitan area.   Also, land presently occupied by parts of two city-owned  food marketing areas is included in the new Federal highway  construction program.  A relocation of these markets would  be necessary when the new expressways are built.  The study  had the following objectives:  • To analyze the present  wholesale food marketing situation for seven commodity  groups in Detroit, and to ascertain the adequacy of present  facilities in light of present and future needs.  • To  develop plans and designs, and consider possible sites for  new marketing facilities that will be adequate to provide  efficient distribution of Detroit's food supplies.  • To  estimate the costs of construction and probable operating  expenses, and sources of income of the proposed facilities.   • To estimate the potential benefits to be obtained from  the construction of a new and modern wholesale  food-distribution center.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312020},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312020},
}