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By Robert Roscoe

within the Seventies, a politically savvy and hardworking local association, the Seward West venture zone Committee (PAC), outmaneuvered a public agency's renewal plan to demolish nearly 70 percentage of a old local in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Demolition might have incorporated the entire homes on Milwaukee street, a half-hidden, very slender two-block-long road flanked by way of small brick homes. inbuilt the Eighteen Eighties, a lot of those homes have been the first actual houses in Minneapolis. "Milwaukee street "offers a special presentation of decided voters saving their local in a decade that modified history.

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