Milwaukee Avenue: Community Renewal in Minneapolis

by Robert Roscoe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626194343
• ISBN13: 9781626194342
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"