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Monday December 29th 2025
Red Lake Nation will build affordable housing on Ambles site next to AIOIC, Cedar Box Co. and Franklin LRT Station
Sam Strong, RedLake Economic Development Director
BY RED LAKE NATION NEWSPAPER Courtesy of Red Lake Nation Newspaper and website
The Red Lake Nation has bought an old warehouse property in Minneapolis, and announced plans this week to turn it into an affordable housing complex.
According to Red Lake Economic Developmenat Director Sam Strong, it”'s the tribe”'s first attempt to provide affordable housing to members who live outside the northern Minnesota reservation.
“It”'s really more than just a housing development,” Strong said. “It”'s a fully inclusive development that allows us to serve all of our band members in Minneapolis.”
The design process is still in its preliminary stages, but Strong said the tribe plans to build a clinic and social services hub for tribe members on the main floor of the former Amble”'s Hardware building.
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Phillips West Neighborhood Upcoming Events www.phillipswest.info
September 1st (Thursday) 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Phillips West Monthly Community Meeting– Please join the Phillips West Board and Community Members for pizza and updates about what is going on in the Community. Ward 6 City Council will update us on what is going on at City Hall. Also come and meet the new 3rd Precinct Minneapolis Police Inspector Catherine Johnson. Meeting is located in the Center for Changing Lives Building (2400 Park Avenue, 1st floor Centrum Room). Free parking adjacent to the building is available. For questions please call Phillips West Staff (Crystal) at 612-879-5383 or email her at pwno2005@yahoo.com.
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Julius Edward Johnson: His $140.00 Pocket Change remains a mystery
The $140 in the pocket of Julius Edward Johnson was more than enough to cover the cost of his burial. Graves sold for fewer than $10 and a plain box would not have cost even that much. His money bought him a place in the cemetery that is about as far from the Potters Field as it is possible to get. He is buried in Lot 3, Block 3, in the 12th grave from the north, near the 29th Street overpass over the Midtown Greenway.
By Sue Hunter Weir
It”'s hard to disappear these days””not impossible””but very difficult. That was not always the case. Before we had all of the various forms of identification that we have now, to say nothing of fingerprints and DNA, people were more or less who they said they were. People could pull up stakes, move to a new town and start over. They could also simply get lost””no one who knew them knew where they were when they died so they were buried as strangers.… Read the rest “Julius Edward Johnson: His $140.00 Pocket Change remains a mystery”
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