There was a graffiti wall on the back of King’s that people used to do their pieces on,” he recalled. That was a big place that people would go. The gig placed him in a community where the street scene filled him with wonder and a cultural life that included the Young Brothers barbershop, an Elks Lodge and the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, which was known for attracting drum corps from around the country. In his teen years in the 1980s, Roger Cummings worked with young people painting murals in north Minneapolis. Kerem Yücel | MPR News ‘Been through this multiple times’Ĭonversations about life in north Minneapolis are punctuated by stories of good times and bad. It's a change of mindset that says we have the capacity … we have the wherewithal to, and we have the creativity to create things in north Minneapolis,” he said. McLean said he hopes to turn north Minneapolis into a Silicon Valley for local entrepreneurs. “Particularly not to the scale that is happening, with the sophistication that's there.” which has never happened, not to my knowledge,” he said. “Successful entrepreneurs are committing resources to north Minneapolis intentionally. is also expanding into north Minneapolis and expected to create 100 jobs, said Warren McLean, president of the nonprofit Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON). The Black-owned Twin Cities-based aerospace company Ion Corp. “But when people really look into Minneapolis … I think one would have to step back and realize the north side is not only a state resource but a national resource."
“I consider north Minneapolis a place of great resources and talent that is overlooked and a lot of times mischaracterized,” he said. Air Force and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin as clients.Ĭhilds said he expects to create at least 300 jobs among his companies. One company, TLC Precision Wafer Technology, counts NASA, the U.S. They include entrepreneur Timothy Childs, who said he intends to raise $100 million in public and private funds to expand his four technology companies in north Minneapolis over the next two years. They’re making plans to invest and build in ways they say are equitable and sustainable long term. This time, though, a corps of professionals, many with ties to north Minneapolis, intend to rewrite the economic story of north Minneapolis. The area took a hit in February when Aldi closed its grocery store at Penn and Lowry Avenues, forcing longer bus rides or walks for many residents and leading some to worry another pendulum swing, a new era of community instability, was at hand. Over the years, excitement over new grocery stores, coffee shops, small businesses and other pillars of neighborhood life often gave way to frustration as storefronts shuttered and food deserts grew. North Minneapolis residents have lived for decades with cycles of economic boom and bust.
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