LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Some 44,000 people in Louisville live in an area that is a designated food desert, according to the Community Foundation of Louisville’s Hunger Innovation Fellowship study. That leaves grocers and neighbors to get creative to get healthy foods to these communities. 

One Louisville woman is planning a new organic foods store to open within a now vacant warehouse off of West Broadway. 'Next Door Grocery' is planned to open in Summer 2021. 

Megan Bell is the neighbor behind the project. She's working to fund the store she predicts will cost a little more than $1 million to open, with the help of local nonprofits and some crowd funding. Bell was inspired to plan the store, after learning of Louisville's food deserts, and being dissatisfied with the produce offered at nearby stores. 

"It's more about, what you put in your body is so important. Not to be able to have those types of produce fresh is a problem to me," Bell says. "[People] deserve good quality food, plus affordable food."