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Scan Furniture was a co-operative furniture chain that operated six stores in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area selling modern Scandinavian furniture. Unusually, it was founded in 1938 as a grocery store in Greenbelt, Maryland , which became the Greenbelt Cooperative in 1940.
Maryland Food Collective, popularly known as The Co-op, was a worker-owned collective at the University of Maryland. [2] [4] The organization was founded in 1975 under a cooperative business structure with the goal of providing nutritious food. [1] It operated under the motto, "Food for people, not for profit". [2]
The New Deal Café was founded by a group of Greenbelt residents in 1995. [7] In November 2004, over 600 people attended an open house to support the project. [8] From 1995 to 2000, the café operated as a part-time coffeehouse in the Greenbelt Community Center.
Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921. [5]Greenbelt is the first and the largest of the three experimental and controversial New Deal Greenbelt Towns, the others being Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin.
Kootenay Co-op (Nelson, British Columbia): A member-owned co-op known for natural and organic foods. East End Food Co-op (Vancouver, British Columbia): A community-focused store offering local and fairly traded products. Ottawa Valley Food Co-op (Ottawa, Ontario region): An online co-op that supports local farmers and producers.
The Beltway Plaza mall is located in Greenbelt, Maryland.It was developed by Sidney J. Brown and First National Realty, opening on October 17, 1963. It was originally composed of a massive S. Klein department store separated by a large parking lot from an A&P Supermarket located in a strip shopping center along with a barbershop, single screen movie theater, and Drug Fair store.
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In 1948 Red River Co-op opened their first food stores in Winnipeg. [5] In 1983, due to poor financial performance they ceased food store operations; they shifted focus on their gas bar operations. [5] In 2014, when Sobeys acquired Safeway, they were forced to sell 23 locations by the federal Competition Bureau.