Beginning in 1956, homes, schools, apartments, businesses, and stores that made up the Rondo neighborhood were demolished to make way for Interstate 94.
Read MoreThe position the city has taken in adopting the Minneapolis 2040 plan is the correct one; increased density, proportional to the existing built form of those neighborhoods, will moderate housing prices and provide more options to renters and homebuyers of all incomes.
Read MoreThe legacy of highway construction across the country is well established now; it is the destruction of thriving neighborhoods, like Rondo, to make way for auto-oriented development. The loss of the entire neighborhood’s connective tissue is a constant reminder of racial bias in planning and a wrong that has always required rectification.
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