MINNEAPOLIS: 35/94 INTERCHANGE

This neighborhood southeast of Downtown was entirely destroyed and replaced with a tentacle-like web of freeways which dumps automobiles into the congested downtown. The caption on the 1933 HOLC redlining map for this area of Minneapolis reads: "This area was at one time occupied by many Germans, Irish and Scandinavian families of the so called middle class, many of them were laborers and wage earners and small business men. For the past 20 years there has been no new development. Hospitals, parks and apartments have invaded it and also the Municipal Auditorium is elevated here. At the present time, many Jews and Scandinavians and negroes reside in the easterly half of this area. Down in the southeast corner of the area near the Adams school there is a considerably large negro settlement. The whole area is close to the business center of the city."