Milwaukee Avenue: Community Renewal in Minneapolis

In the 1970s, a politically savvy and hardworking neighborhood organization, the Seward West Project Area Committee (PAC), outmaneuvered a public agency's renewal plan to demolish approximately 70 percent of a historic neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Demolition would have included all the houses on Milwaukee Avenue, a half-hidden, very narrow two-block-long street flanked by small brick houses. Built in the 1880s, many of these houses were the very first homes in Minneapolis. "Milwaukee Avenue" offers a unique presentation of determined citizens saving their neighborhood in a decade that changed history.

Contributor(s): Roscoe, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 1626194343 EAN: 9781626194342
Publisher: History Press
Pages: 206
Binding: Hardcover Paperback
Pub Date: March 11, 2014