Wayne Swanson
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And so a lot more of us have land.
than we give ourselves credit for.
Especially when you get outside of I-20 and 285, you get down around Macon, it's a lot of us with land.
They just not shouting about it.
I was two or three years too early.
Most of my businesses are geared towards us.
We hadn't accepted that yet, the idea of a $13 burger.
that wasn't quite right.
They were outside protesting one day like, you got a goddamn $13 burger in this spot.
And I was like, man, I raised a cow.
It's a $13 burger.
But so right now what we're doing is there, I'm an investor in a grocery store called Nourish and Bloom.
It's an autonomous grocery store.
It's on Cascade, Trillith, and we're opening one in Grady and then another two on the Beltline.
So our product will be in there.
So we'll be able to do onesie, twosie products in there, not the bulk stuff that we normally do.
But those are coming from these communities we're talking about.
So as I have relationships in these small rural communities, I'm able to kind of pump dollars into those.
And that's where I can lease more space.
And we're continuously leasing and growing.