By Nina Moini, MPR. Photos by Nicole Neri for MPR News. Originally published March 16, 2022. The break room inside of Taste of Rondo Bar and Grill overlooks a well-traveled portion of...

By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, Sahan Journal. Photo by Ben Hovland. Originally published March 31, 2022. Marvin Roger Anderson was 8 years old when he heard the question for the first time: “What...

By Katie Galioto, Star Tribune. Photo by Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune. Originally published February 25, 2022. Those who grew up in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood remember it as a vibrant, tight-knit community...

By Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom. Photo by Derek Montgomery for MPR News File. Originally aired May 5, 2022. More than a generation ago, the construction of Interstate 94 dug...

By Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune. Photography by David Joles, Star Tribune. Originally posted July 5, 2021 Advocates have spent 12 years planning a way to reconnect Rondo. While walking through...

By Margie O’Loughlin, Monitor St. Paul. Originally posted May 12, 2021 ReConnect Rondo (RCR) is leading the effort to revitalize St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. The non-profit organization and its partners...

By Fred de Sam Lazaro, PBS Newshour. Originally posted May 26, 2021 President Joe Biden has proposed using some of the $2 trillion of his infrastructure plan to repair harm...

By Charmaine Nero, KARE 11. Originally published May 24, 2021. “George Floyd and all of these African American men whose lives have been taken have shined a light on the basements...

By Deevon Rahming, KARE 11. Originally published June 19, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — St. Paul-based home improvement nonprofit, Rebuilding Together Twin Cities, received a $150,000 National Neighborhood Promise Grant from the Republic...

By Cinnamon Janzer, Next City. Originally posted June 23, 2021 Since the late 1800’s, St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood was a thriving Black community. Churches, businesses, schools, and homes all coalesced into a...

By Alex Chhith, Star Tribune. Originally posted May 10, 2021 Online sessions will gather community input.  A bridge proposal to reconnect a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul is facing...

by Ben Piven, Aljazeera. Originally posted May 11, 2021 In the historically Black neighbourhood of Rondo in Saint Paul, Minnesota, community leaders hope US President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan will help...

by Ashley Hackett, MinnPost. Originally posted May 5, 2021 The Reconnecting Communities Act would establish grants to address the “legacy of highway construction built through communities… that divided neighborhoods and erected...

by The Associated Press. Originally posted February 3, 2021 Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday heard a proposal that would construct a “land bridge” to reconnect a historically Black St. Paul neighborhood...

Residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood, which was torn apart when Interstate 94 was built in the 1960s, are continuing their years-long push to reconnect the predominantly Black neighborhood and...

By Maury Glover, FOX 9. Originally published March 31, 2021. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan has encouraging news for supporters of the Rondo Land Bridge project in...

By Sharon Yoo, KARE 11. Originally published March 25, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — A neighborhood destroyed by an interstate is a story that’s not unique to St. Paul but one...

By Myron Medcalf, Star Tribune. Originally published February 20, 2021. In the 1950s, Debbie Montgomery, a former St. Paul City Council member and the first woman hired by the St....

By Robin Doyscher, The Hamline University Oracle. Originally published March 17, 2021. Decades after Interstate 94 ran itself through the Rondo neighborhood, a land bridge could be built to reconnect...

By Kea Wilson, Streets Blog USA. Originally published February 19, 2021. At the height of the urban renewal era, state and local governments across the country strategically routed highway projects...

By David Lamb, The Progessive. Originally published March 3, 2021. As H.R. 40 gathers dust in the U.S. Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, becomes the latest city to join the national...

By EDITORIAL BOARD, Star Tribune. Originally published February 16, 2021. As part of America’s development of its highway system, Interstate 94 was routed through the Black community of Rondo in...

By Charmaine Nero, KARE 11. Originally published February 4, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — “I was born and raised in Rondo,” says Marvin Anderson Anderson’s personal story mimics that of countless...

By Bill Lindeke, MinnPost. Originally published February 2, 2021. For years, advocates and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) have been engaged in a subtle game of three-dimensional advocacy chess. It...

By Jay Kolls, KSTP Eyewitness News. Originally published February 4, 2021. The St. Paul City Council passed a resolution supporting a Minnesota Department of Transportation Concept of “Rethinking I-94”, which could...

By Mohamed Ibrahim, Associated Press. Originally published February 2, 2021. MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday heard a proposal that would construct a “land bridge” to reconnect a historically Black St....

by  Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, WCCO 4 News at 6. Originally broadcast February 2, 2021.

by Maury Glover, Fox 9. Originally published February 2, 2021. A pocket park at North Fisk Street and Concordia Avenue honors the memory of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood, but Marvin Anderson...

by Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press. Originally published February 2, 2021. A lifetime ago, construction of Interstate 94 carved a deep trench through a historically middle-class Black neighborhood in St. Paul, destroying...

Architectural renderings courtesy Design by Melo and Visuals by James. interview by Cathy Wurzer, MPR. Originally broadcast February 2, 2021 A proposal to reconnect St. Paul’s fractured Rondo neighborhood gets...

by Emilie Wille, streets.mn. Originally published December 10, 2020. Saint Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood is a thriving, diverse community and home to many immigrant families and Black-owned businesses. It’s situated...

By Adina Solomon, ULI. Originally published October 7, 2020. Beginning in the 1950s, the Interstate Highway System began to span the continent, connecting cities across the United States and driving...

by Professor Samuel L, Myers Jr, University of Minnesota. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer during an arrest. The officer pressed his...

By Blake MacKenzie, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. Originally published February 14, 2020. If you’ve ever driven on I-94 between Minneapolis and St. Paul, you’ve gone right over the heart...

I was delighted to hear Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mention the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul during his inaugural address in January. While elaborating on his vision for One Minnesota,...

by Beth Mattson-Teig, ULI. Originally published March 29, 2018. ULI Advisory Services has presented their recommendations on a proposed Rondo Community Land Bridge in St. Paul—a project that is intended to...