Article: ON BUSINESS; A renaissance is gaining ground on the North Side; Development at Penn and Lowry Avenues is more evidence of the block-by-block commercial comeback of north Minneapolis.(BUSINESS)(Neal St. Anthony)

Byline: Neal St. Anthony; Staff Writer

Three years ago, at the intersection of Penn and Lowry Avenues in north Minneapolis, a perpetrator with a semiautomatic pistol walked into the Penn Best Steak House and killed two men on the mistaken suspicion that one of them had hassled his brother. It was a senseless and violent act that made headlines that were repeated time and again on newscasts. There goes the neighborhood. But the killer was found, convicted and jailed. And crime is down and commerce is up at Lowry and Penn. Darryl Weivoda, the owner of North End Hardware and Rental and a 30-year veteran of the corner, just spent a quarter-million dollars with a ...

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