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Once a working-class enclave of European immigrants who flocked to live and work at nearby factories, plants and breweries, the Payne Avenue business district is now in a renaissance period, thanks to an influx of new Hmong, Vietnamese, Latinx, and Somali immigrants. The area is also popular with young homeowners and entrepreneurs attracted to lower rents, and according to Payne Ave Reboot, a group of local business owners, non-profit leaders, creatives, artists and community development experts, the avenue’s “quirk, edge, and grit.”
Claire Thomas, East Side Neighborhood Development Company Coordinator says the ave maintains its “main street” character with one important distinction: “It’s one of the last holdouts from gentrification.” She says it gets its vitality and continuity via this important thread: neighbors knowing each other.
Want to visit the sort of Twin Cities neighborhood that really gives you a feel for a place? Where businesses are indie and locally owned and not multinational, where proprietors live where they work, and where you won’t feel like you could be anywhere USA?
Get off the beaten tourist path and check out Payne Avenue