After riots, St. Paul's Midway works to turn blight to bright
A 4-mile stretch of University Avenue in St. Paul has a slate of housing and retail projects aimed at recovery.
January 16, 2021 — 8:00am
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Four nights after George Floyd died in the custody of Minneapolis police, four men were caught on camera breaking into the Enterprise Rent-A-Car building in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood. They set it on fire.
"It was a total loss," said building owner Paul Gonyea, founder of Gonyea Commercial Properties. "The roof collapsed. The inside walls collapsed. What remained had to be turned down."