Lake Street, the epicenter of the protests in Minneapolis, has been a block-by-block study in immigration and revitalization. Now it's traumatized by fire and destruction.
A man walks on Lake Street while looking at businesses destroyed during riots and protests over the death of George Floyd, Sunday May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25.
On one end is a trendy district of bars and shopping. On the other are quiet neighborhoods atop the Mississippi River bluff. Between the two is a timeline that spans almost five miles marking each wave of arrivals, along with a tangle of languages spoken in each group’s markets, restaurants, churches and community groups.
It’s Lake Street’s minority-owned small businesses that may suffer the most from the racial firestorm that hit the city this week. As Deb Frank moved into the Longfellow neighborhood just off East Lake Street 25 years ago, buying a two-bedroom, 100-year-old home for $40,000. The mail carrier and her neighbors teamed up to rid the area of two brothels by calling in license plates to the police and embarrassing the patrons.
Today, within a couple blocks of Ingebretsen’s, you can buy a bottle of fresh camel milk in an East African grocery and fried tortillas at Taqueria La Poblanita.
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