In mid-March, there was a brief but intense controversy when the Salvation Army proposed building a "live and work" facility in North Minneapolis. Residents of our neighborhood responded with a predictable lack of enthusiasm over this latest "concentrate all the poverty in North Minneapolis and call that development" development scheme.
The scheme, thankfully, appears dead.
However, out of the controversy and discussion came idea about an alternative plan to develop the Mereen Johnson property at 4401 Lyndale Avenue North...
