New housing complex planned for Canton Inn site, free food market opens on Shorb

Canton Repository (12/7/23) A year after crews demolished the troubled Canton Inn, the plans – and funding – for a new family housing complex on the site are taking shape. A half-mile away on Shorb Avenue NW, a market offering free fresh food opened last week. And Canton officials have committed more city and federal funds to the Shorb neighborhood to help homeowners improve their homes and to help developers build new ones. "The neighborhood, with the challenges it has, didn't get this way in just two years," said Don Ackerman, executive director of Canton For All People and lead pastor of Crossroads United Methodist…