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Sorry for Uptownposting
First, some personal news, as they say: I, a lifetime renter, have succumbed to the lure of private property and bought a lil condo in Uptown (technically, one block outside it, if you’re a stickler). I now live the farthest north of any Racket staffer, and Uptown is no longer dead. You’re welcome.
Lovin’ the new hood. Last Sunday I walked a short three blocks from my place to enjoy Open Streets Lyndale. Earlier last week, I attempted to engage with my new community at the VFW, where the Uptown Association gave business owners a forum to complain about the upcoming Lyndale Avenue reconstruction while their adversaries in the crowd jeered. Let me just say it was hard to root for anyone in that room, whether I agreed with them or not.
But yes, Uptown! What will happen with Uptown? I’m so worried about Uptown! Uptowwwwwn! Here’s an interesting development in the battle for Minneapolis’s most overdiscussed not-exactly-a-neighborhood: On Thursday resident Ethan Knight published an opinion piece in Southwest Voices announcing the first Uptown People’s Assembly, to be held at he First Universalist Church at 1 p.m. this coming Saturday…