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    'Welcome To Marrdy's' - A Shared Kitchen For Local Cooks In Gentrifying West Atlanta

    As part of NPR's Kitchen Table Conversations, we revisit an entrepreneur in West Atlanta who wants to preserve the culinary traditions of a neighborhood even as it gentrifies and changes.
    by Debbie Elliott Mar 15, 2019 5 minutes
    Keitra Bates (left) moved to tears upon meeting 106-year old Leila Williams at her nursing home. Bates recently discovered that Williams once ran Leila's Dinette in the building where Bates now runs Marddy's Shared Kitchen and Marketplace.

    Two years ago Keitra Bates was trying to buy a run-down storefront in West Atlanta that had been vacant for years.

    "Here's my dream come true," she said at the time, as we peered in through a wrought-iron front door at the neglected building she hoped to buy in a blighted neighborhood not far from downtown.

    Bates is one of the Americans NPR has been talking with as part of our Kitchen Table Conversations, started when President Trump took office.

    We examined how people from all walks of life are faring under the new administration. Voters talked about their finances, health coverage concerns, and Trump's promises to revive U.S. industry.

    In early 2017, Keitra Bates was concerned about the future. She'd recently closed her business — a pizzeria — when her landlord raised the rent. She decided that whatever uncertainty the new administration presented, she needed to

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