Information about the Riot Location (Minneapolis, Bloomington: low income, 2014, apartments)

[youngprodigy21]

I want to preface by saying, I don't want to get into a mud-slinging, name-calling debate over this. But I am just curious, for those who are familiar with the layout of Minneapolis, what are the demographics of city where the riots are developing? Is it a predominately lower-income area? Again, I am not familiar with the makeup of Minneapolis, so maybe you can tell me more about this particular part of town.

[Cruz Azul Guy]

Originally Posted by youngprodigy21

I want to preface by saying, I don't want to get into a mud-slinging, name-calling debate over this. But I am just curious, for those who are familiar with the layout of Minneapolis, what are the demographics of city where the riots are developing? Is it a predominately lower-income area? Again, I am not familiar with the makeup of Minneapolis, so maybe you can tell me more about this particular part of town.

Yes, it is historically low income but has been undergoing the slow process of improving in recent years. These looters and rioters have effectively accelerated the rate of gentrification by a decent clip by my estimation. Thanks rioters.

[Glenfield]

National news gives the impression that this is exclusively black neighborhood but that is not the case. People of all races and ethnic backgrounds — black, white, Latino, Asian, African, Native American — live there in relative harmony with each other. It has long been one of my favorite parts of the city. What has happened there saddens me beyond words.

[youngprodigy21]

Originally Posted by Cruz Azul Guy

Yes, it is historically low income but has been undergoing the slow process of improving in recent years. These looters and rioters have effectively accelerated the rate of gentrification by a decent clip by my estimation. Thanks rioters.

Had the rioters gone into the most affluent neighborhoods of the city to wreak havoc, I am sure the response time for police and military intervention to shut everything down would have been much soon.

[roxyrn]

Riots also in St.Paul. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a list of damage done in Minneapolis, St.Paul and Roseville. Libraries, WIC building, banks, restaurants, laundries, grocery and drugstores to name a few. What a loss to those who live and work in the area.

[CCbaxter]

The ironic thing is that i remember when they built the Third Precinct station it was set there as a stabilizing influence on what had been kind of a wild west part of the neighborhood. Lots of drugs, massage places, seedy bars. Light rail and the 55 overpass brought another wave of redevelopment. The Y was built, couple of new small strip malls, and it seems like things would have been looking up. Guess not.

I don't know if Powderhorn ever improved. Used to have a friend who lived there in the late 80s and you could hear gunfire all the time.

[Cruz Azul Guy]

Originally Posted by CCbaxter

The ironic thing is that i remember when they built the Third Precinct station it was set there as a stabilizing influence on what had been kind of a wild west part of the neighborhood. Lots of drugs, massage places, seedy bars. Light rail and the 55 overpass brought another wave of redevelopment. The Y was built, couple of new small strip malls, and it seems like things would have been looking up. Guess not.

I don't know if Powderhorn ever improved. Used to have a friend who lived there in the late 80s and you could hear gunfire all the time.

We lived in Powderhorn from 2008-2014. It has improved there significantly over the last 15 years or thanks to the arrival of the light rail, the Sears building restoration into the Midtown Exchange and Global Market, the Midtown Farmers Market, the YWCA, lots of apartment and condo buildings, etc. etc. It still had a ways to go but things were definitely on the upswing until a few days ago. The neighborhood looks like a war zone now.

[CCbaxter]

Originally Posted by Cruz Azul Guy

We lived in Powderhorn from 2008-2014. It has improved there significantly over the last 15 years or thanks to the arrival of the light rail, the Sears building restoration into the Midtown Exchange and Global Market, the Midtown Farmers Market, the YWCA, lots of apartment and condo buildings, etc. etc. It still had a ways to go but things were definitely on the upswing until a few days ago. The neighborhood looks like a war zone now.

The turnover of the Sears store was a huge boost to the neighborhood. We used to go to the smaller mercado, I think it was on Bloomington. I remember shooting a commercial one time for a chicken place on Lake down near 35. Were trying to get an outside shot of the building but we had to keep shooing away the hookers. Old timers used to tell stories about Lake St when it was still the main drag and full of car dealerships. The old pics are pretty cool.

Light rail too was a spur for development. I used to live by the VA hospital and used Hiawatha as the back road to downtown. When the train started going in it was almost like a forest of tower cranes all along 55 between the park and Lake.

[youngprodigy21]

Originally Posted by Cruz Azul Guy

Yes, it is historically low income but has been undergoing the slow process of improving in recent years. These looters and rioters have effectively accelerated the rate of gentrification by a decent clip by my estimation. Thanks rioters.

What's sickening to me is there are many people on my Facebook feed that are glorifying the business getting burned down and saying places like Target deserve to get destroyed. The hell with corporate America and all that crap. But what they fail to realize is some people probably working at these places, and working paycheck to paycheck, trying to make an honest living for themselves. And now they aren't going to work tomorrow. And then they will have to wait for unemployment to kick in.

[Cruz Azul Guy]

Originally Posted by youngprodigy21

What's sickening to me is there are many people on my Facebook feed that are glorifying the business getting burned down and saying places like Target deserve to get destroyed. The hell with corporate America and all that crap. But what they fail to realize is some people probably working at these places, and working paycheck to paycheck, trying to make an honest living for themselves. And now they aren't going to work tomorrow. And then they will have to wait for unemployment to kick in.

Glorifying the destruction of businesses, apartments and other buildings is reprehensible. Two wrongs don’t make a right.