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Article: City struggles with housing void; Neighbors cheered when 1030 Morgan Av. N. fell, but replacing it with affordable housing has turned out to be no speedy task.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- July 9, 1998
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It's been a year since the backhoe with a 2 1/2-story reach slashed away at the vacant Minneapolis apartment building that had achieved notoriety from the hundreds of police calls to its address: 1030 Morgan Av. N.
The grass seeded soon after the building's demolition is thickening its hold on the stony lot.
What hasn't taken root is the single-family housing promised by city officials. That pledge was made on a day considered so memorable that it was recorded on video, and a program of interviews and demolition footage ran dozens of times on public-access cable.
"It's about time to build some new houses and get some new neighbors," declared ...