Looks like 14th street after the '68 riots.
Businesses need insurance, and it will be VERY EXPENSIVE to locate back in those areas for a generation...
Posted on 06/05/2020 9:46:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
There’s a 6-mile long commercial corridor in South Minneapolis called Lake Street, and it has been destroyed.
“We no longer have pharmacies in our community,” said ZoeAna Martinez, who works for the Lake Street Council, a business association. “We no longer have gas stations as well. Our largest grocery stores are also gone,” Martinez said. “Right now, our community, we live in a food desert, which happened overnight.”
In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, hundreds of businesses have been damaged or burned to the ground. The same has happened in cities around the country.
“Pretty much half of a city block completely burned down Sunday night,” said Bea Rider, interim executive director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp., a neighborhood group in Philadelphia. Pharmacies, bodegas, clothing stores, check-cashing spots — all gone. And these losses hurt certain groups more than others.
“Low-income families who are underbanked, so they rely on check-cashing businesses, they’re definitely feeling a pinch,” Rider said.
Also, people who don’t have cars to drive to an intact store in the suburbs. And seniors who may have trouble getting around and who are more likely to need prescriptions filled.
“This is all in the background as the pandemic is still very much with us, and some businesses had curtailed certain degrees of operation because of that,” said Tabitha Montgomery, executive director of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association in Minneapolis.
Community groups and churches are trying to fill the gap with donated supplies, but that’s a short-term fix. And Montgomery said she thinks the neighborhood will bear the scars of this moment for decades, even after the stores are rebuilt.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketplace.org ...
Looks like 14th street after the '68 riots.
Businesses need insurance, and it will be VERY EXPENSIVE to locate back in those areas for a generation...
Gee, that’s too bad.........................
Let it be. They created this situation, so they can live with it.
Thanks to the hard-core leftist democrats.
Kind of sucks... Destroying your local area and turning it into a ghost town sure isn’t very useful... Especially with this Covid nonsense creating even more and more unemployment.
Whats going to happen is you,ll have government programs to ship these people out into the suburbs and relocate them and have cheaper housing so they have access to everything that they burned down.
They’re lucky the protests were mostly peaceful. Imagine if they were only somewhat peaceful.
“Do you even Bezos, dude?”
This is the fake antifa’s version of America... This what they want on every street corner and in every town.
The riot, insurrection, war clause will protect the insurance companies.
Maybe the Un can have a humanitarian delivery air drop some provisions.
Send toilet paper, bottled water, and blue helmets.
What kind of people burn down their own neighborhood to protest things not in their neighborhood? Stupid, easily manipulated people, that’s who. They’ll keep voting democrat and they’ll blame everyone else for their self inflicted misery.
Wow . . . Who would have thought that torching your grocery store would make it impossible to shop there the next day?
Not one business owner was interviewed for this article.
They won’t stop until every city in America looks like burned-out Watts. If the governors don’t get this under control, then someone else will have to.
Oh well. Riots have consequences...
This is very sad. Many of the residents are as she said, stuck there for now. Some with no car or reliable transport.
All those celebrities who are giving thousands of dollars to bail the rioters out of jail should read articles like this one to see what kinds of destruction they are paying for.
When a large city is kicked this hard, rarely do they ever come back except after a long passage of time.
They should thank the BLM and antifa for saving them from these Capitalist businesses who were oppressing them with quality goods at great prices.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.