On July 22, 2010, almost 250 government officials, ministers and other community leaders joined representatives of Food Lion, Carver State Bank and St. Philip A. M. E. Church for the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Carver Commons development that will include a full service Food Lion supermarket and a new office for Carver State Bank at 701 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

State, county, and city government officials and community leaders joined Food Lion, Carver State Bank, and St. Philip A.M.E. Church officials at the groundbreaking ceremony held Thursday. The Carver Commons project could signal a transition for an entire section of Savannah that, unlike Broughton Street and the northern end of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., has been bypassed by significant capital infusion and redevelopment.

Next week, The Savannah Tribune will publish a Special Edition on Carver Commons and efforts to revive the Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Montgomery Street corridors