Partnership Aims to Help Businesses Following Civil Unrest
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“When we burned down, there were 11 other pharmacies in the Twin Cities that were burned down or impacted so they couldn t open. It was important for us to get up and running because this community had no pharmacies. We needed to be back in this neighborhood to support the needs here.” – Jim Stage, Owner, Lloyd’s Pharmacy
Lloyd’s Pharmacy has been a staple in St. Paul, Minnesota’s Hamline-Midway community since 1918. During the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd last May, the independent pharmacy was looted and destroyed by fire overnight.
Partnership Aims to Help Businesses Following Civil Unrest
Partnership Aims to Help Businesses Following Civil Unrest
“When we burned down, there were 11 other pharmacies in the Twin Cities that were burned down or impacted so they couldn t open. It was important for us to get up and running because this community had no pharmacies. We needed to be back in this neighborhood to support the needs here.” – Jim Stage, Owner, Lloyd’s Pharmacy
Lloyd’s Pharmacy has been a staple in St. Paul, Minnesota’s Hamline-Midway community since 1918. During the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd last May, the independent pharmacy was looted and destroyed by fire overnight.
Afaya Sanaa Healing Center opening in St. Paul Midway Activist beckons others to the St. Paul site who ve suffered trauma of violence in the community. May 8, 2021 8:36am Text size Copy shortlink:
Now, she hopes to provide a shared space for healing.
On Saturday, the Afaya Sanaa Healing Center will hold its grand opening at 1549 W. University Av. in St. Paul. Williams said it s a place where Black people can gather, learn, grow and nurture the healing process in a space of their own.
Williams said she started the Guns Down, Love Up campaign after her brother Tyrone Rashad Williams, a local activist, was killed by a former roommate. She said the center is a brick-and-mortar manifestation of the Healing Circles work she and others have been doing over the past few years to address the trauma of violence in the Black community.
Millions in public, private aid help rebuilding in St. Paul s riot-damaged Midway
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
The only way Solomon Hailie could bring back his
St. Paul restaurant after its destruction in last year s civil unrest was to leave the Midway neighborhood. Our goal was to stay, but we couldn t find anything [along
University Avenue], Hailie said. So he moved Bolé Ethiopian Cuisine to a building he bought 2 miles away near the
State Fairgrounds.
Businesses on a hard-hit stretch of
University Avenue are rebuilding, nearly a year after the riots following the death of
George Floyd left more than 70 businesses damaged, more than a dozen of them with serious fire damage.
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