Downtown Minneapolis workforce inching toward pre-pandemic levels article
Downtown Minneapolis is seeing more workers return to work after the downtown workforce shrunk during the pandemic and during the trial of Derek Chauvin.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Two weeks after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, plywood and fencing downtown Minneapolis are nearly gone and businesses in the skyways are starting to reopen. But, they say it’s going to be a long time before they see customers at pre-pandemic levels.
Julie McNally, a downtown worker, says she is starting to see more people recently after returning to her downtown office part-time in January. Monday was her first day back riding the bus to work. McNally has noticed more rush hour traffic into downtown, but people on sidewalks are still sparse.