"Peaceful" Protests in Minneapolis Destroy Dozens of Businesses and Livelihoods: List of Over 200 Buildings Damaged, Looted, or Destroyed

[1cthlctrth]

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The civil unrest in Minneapolis and St. Paul has left a trail of burned out buildings, smashed windows, and looted stores across the Twin Cities.

Hundreds of buildings seriously damaged, many which were destroyed.

As of June 2nd, below is merely a small sample (click the link to see the complete list) of the reports of damage or looting that have come in since Wednesday May 27th:

– Nguyen Architects 26th and 27th: Destroyed in fire.
– Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct: Destroyed by fire.
– El Nuevo Rodeo Restaurante East Lake Street: Destroyed in fire.
– Arby’s Lake Street: Destroyed by fire.
– 7 Mile Fashion Express East Lake Street: Destroyed by fire
– Wendy’s Lake Street: Fire, destroyed.
– AutoZone Lake Street: Fire, destroyed.
– Olympic Cafe West Broadway: Destroyed by fire.
– Migizi Communications 27th Avenue South: Destroyed by fire.
– Schubert & Hoey Outdoor Advertising on 26th and 28th: Destroyed by fire.
– USPS Post Office Minnehaha and Lake: Destroyed by fire.
– Mailbox Solutions Plus 44th Ave N. and Penn: Destroyed by fire.
– Cellphone shop 44th Ave N. and Penn: Destroyed by fire.
– Tom’s Barbershop 44th Ave. N. and Penn: Fire damage
– Knights Chamber Calhoun Square: Property damage, looting, water damage.
– ChicagoLake Dental: Extensive fire damage.
– Mama Safia East Lake Street: Fire damage.
– Bismallah Grocery & Coffee Chicago Avenue: Fire damage and looting.
– Basilica of Saint Mary Minneapolis: Property damage.
– Blue Tree Music Education 23rd and 35th: Property damage; glass door smashed
– Drew’s Popcorn 23rd and 35th: Property damage; glass door smashed.
– Domino’s on 26th Ave So and E 28th Street: Destroyed by fire.
– Popeyes Chicken Chicago Avenue: Destroyed by Fire.
– Boost Mobile East Lake Street: Destroyed by fire.
– Dream Haven Comics: 38th St and 23rd Ave: Looting, property damage.
– Family Dollar, 3110 Penn Ave N: Extensive damage
– Penn Gas Stop, 2606 Penn Ave N: Extensive damage, Looting
– Piff Streetwear Como Avenue: Property damage and looting.
– Office Depot Nicollet: Property damage, looting, flooding.
– Longfellow/Seward Healthy Seniors at US Bank building on Lake: Property damage and looting.
– Atlas Staffing: 1st Ave and Lake: Destroyed by fire.
– Uncle Hugo’s/Uncle Edgar’s 28th and Chicago: Destroyed by fire.
– Walgreens 46th and Hiawatha: Property damage and looting.
– Kitchen Window Uptown: Extensive property damage, looting.
– Iron Door Pub: Fire damage
– Speedway LynLake: Extensive fire damage.
– Family Dollar 36th & Nicollet: Destroyed by fire.
– O’Reilly’s Auto Parts 36th and Nicollet: Extensive fire damage.
– Fade Factory Barber Shop: Extensive fire damage.
– Hibachi Grill on Lake Street: Fire damage.
– Shell Gas Station Park and Lake: Property damage, fire, and looting.

Was the Mayor’s stand-down order to law enforcement and firefighters a good idea?
Owners, employees, customers, neighborhood: Will they ever recover?

 

[adamhovey1988]

Which is terrible. The protests in Augusta (near where I live) have thus far been peaceful, Columbia (which I also live near), on the other hand…

 

[QContinuum]

We’re recovering now. Millions have already been raised in just four days. We’ve already cleaned up and cleared away debris on Lake Street. Removed graffiti and glass. I’m on supply runs to different rebuilding donation sites. There’s no question we’ll recover.

 

[Limoncello4021]

The Cities will recover: hundreds if not thousands of people immediately mobilized to help clean up and rebuild and provide food and shelter to those most affected. However, I also think some small businesses, already hurt by Covid, will not return. This is certainly sad, but it is also inevitable. These are tough times for many small business owners, whether they were hurt by the unrest or not. Time will tell.

 

[Peeps]

We only had a few dozen small businesses vandalized, but not completely trashed by the violent protesters.

I just wish that the city could have given them a list of the several hundred “delapidated properties” in our city that are scheduled for demolition as the money becomes available, and directed any protesters that needed to express their anger and frustration by destroying something to those properties and told them, “Go for it! Take it down!”

It seems symbolic–many of these properties are in the “poor” sections of the city, and tearing these places down seems to symbolize the end of a tragic time when certain groups were not allowed to “move up in the world,” and give a very visual message, “Poor no more!”

Oh, well, it would probably have resulted in hurt people (after all, professional demolition is not something that just anyone can do), and that would have meant lawsuits against the city, which we cannot afford. Sigh.

 

[commenter]

In my city there was a little arson but I don’t know if any buildings destroyed. it was mostly breaking into and looting pawnshops, small stores, and other small businesses on the edge of downtown. These are not chains but owned by individuals who also worked there.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The reason why stand-down orders are given is that when things go crazy such as in a riot, there are more calls than police and fire can handle, and the police and fire are at risk going into the middle of an angry mob to respond. Therefore, they usually respond to the most important calls such as those involving life in danger, etc.

It’s unfortunate that businesses already suffering from COVID were damaged. However, the reality is that riots, especially in cities, are a risk of having a small physical business, and those who have such businesses need to plan for that and also for how they will cope with no insurance. I am sure that the relatively wealthy areas will rebuild, if necessary with new businesses. There is a real concern however that the businesses in the poorer areas might not come back at all and thus leave the residents of those areas without stores that they rely upon for necessities.

 

[commenter]

There is a real concern however that the businesses in the poorer areas might not come back at all and thus leave the residents of those areas without stores that they rely upon for necessities.

True. These small neighborhood businesses also provided jobs to nearby people who don’t have cars to access jobs in the suburbs. Even if they reopen now, when their lease ends, they may relocate.

 

[StudentMI]

True. These small neighborhood businesses also provided jobs to nearby people who don’t have cars to access jobs in the suburbs. Even if they reopen now, when their lease ends, they may relocate.

In Detroit that’s what happened. Many businesses never came back. Even now there is a stark difference between downtown and what I call the real Detroit. The real Detroit is a mishmash of small businesses and abandoned storefronts, liquor stores a plenty, and so called ‘feral areas’ where even the cops don’t go. To be honest, I don’t even keep up with what’s happening in Detroit. I find it too depressing. Maybe some things have changed that I’m not aware of, maybe the feral areas are ‘tamed’, but I just find it too hard to look.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

In Detroit that’s what happened. Many businesses never came back.

Detroit has done a poor job of recovering and redeveloping after the economic downturn in its industry as well as the riots. They have many problems beyond riots. Most of the other cities that were previously wrecked by 1960s riots have been able to come back and will bounce back from this fairly easily as long as it doesn’t become a regular occurrence. I do think that city and state authorities, police forces and businesses have to be more prepared though. Even just having those metal shutters like businesses have in Manhattan would help a lot. There were stores in Philadelphia that were not damaged because the vandals couldn’t get past the metal cage shutters.

 

[StudentMI]

Detroit has done a poor job of recovering and redeveloping after the economic downturn in its industry as well as the riots. They have many problems beyond riots.

Yes that’s true. However the riots are a linchpin in my opinion.

 

[commenter]

The sections of cities that “come back” from riots tend not to be restored but become something else.
There are fewer businesses, now owned by corporations rather than a local family. Many small businesses are gone, most buildings demolished, lots of parking for a few new buildings.

 

[TheLittleLady]

These business owners, or their Corporate owners for the franchises, will decide individually if they want to rebuild with their insurance claims or if they are not going to re-open. It is too early to claim these businesses/livelihoods are finished.

 

[commenter]

These business owners, or their Corporate owners for the franchises, will decide individually if they want to rebuild with their insurance claims or if they are not going to re-open. It is too early to claim these businesses/livelihoods are finished.

True. If a company was making a good profit here, before, they likely will stay put. But if they were marginal, and have other options, this could be the deciding factor to relocate.

What’s harder to evaluate are the new businesses that might have located here, or started up here that do not. If it was 50/50 before between here and a suburb, it might now be 48/52.

 

[Zach]

The other day I drove by a local suburban bank just a few miles outside the city and saw cars backed up into the street for the drive through (insides are closed due to virus). I never saw it anywhere like that before and wondered why. Then I learned that all of the ATM machines in this particular area had cash taken out as a safety precaution because after the criminal thug rioters, in order to get the cash, blew up with dynamite or stole many of the machines in the city they started working their way into the suburbs.

 

[Hodos]

It’s unfortunate that businesses already suffering from COVID were damaged. However, the reality is that riots, especially in cities, are a risk of having a small physical business, and those who have such businesses need to plan for that and also for how they will cope with no insurance.

Not in a civil society. In order to do business one has to assume the rule of law. Where there is no rule of law, there is no certainty. If I am a small business, or even a large business such as Target or Walmart, I would be thinking twice about moving back into lower income, high crime neighborhoods where these riots occurred. I would not be investing in a neighborhood with low volumes and high risk of theft and vandalism the next time some incident gives people excuse to pillage and plunder their own neighborhoods.