For immediate release: September 18, 2023 Media inquires: Tim Hunt 651-242-4959 timh@reconnectrondo.com Saint Paul, Minn — The first-ever convening of communities divided by the federal highway system will happen in...

By Amy Felegy, MPR and Tim Nelson, Sahan Journal. Originally published March 1, 2023. This story comes to you from MPR News through a partnership with Sahan Journal. Nonprofit community group ReConnect Rondo...

By Deevon Rahming, KARE11. Originally published March 1, 2023. ST PAUL, Minn. — It’s an investment seen as a way to right the wrong felt by St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood,...

By Kyle Stokes, MinnPost. Originally published March 1, 2023. A proposal to build a land bridge over Interstate 94 in St. Paul — physically reconnecting a once-vibrant, historically-Black neighborhood torn in two by the...

By Michael Laris, The Washington Post. Originally published February 28, 2023. The Kensington Expressway, a highway project built in 1958, effectively cut off much of Buffalo’s East Side, an area...

By Charmaine Nero, KARE-11. Originally published February 28, 2023. ST PAUL, Minn. — *Editor’s note: The above story first aired Feb. 4, 2021. The Rondo neighborhood is one of hundreds of...

By Richard Reeve, KSTP-TV. Originally published February 28, 2023. Along Concordia Avenue in St. Paul is the Rondo neighborhood — present day. But Nieta Presley shared with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS...

By Olivia Stevens, Pioneer Press. Originally published February 13, 2023. The large-scale land bridge project proposed for St. Paul’s Rondo area will receive $2 million in funding under the federal...

U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum press release The monumental task of resuscitating St. Paul’s Rondo community took a major step forward this week when the federal government announced it is committing...

By Jimmie Briggs, AARP Livable Communities. Originally published February 1, 2023. As a home to Black families and individuals migrating from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, and other areas, the city’s Rondo...

By Andrew Hazzard, Sahan Journal. Originally published October 6, 2022. Environmental justice advocates packed a recent public meeting to pressure the Minnesota Department of Transportation to replace Interstate 94 between...

By Karen Jordan, Urban Land. Originally published October 24, 2022. For decades, highways nationwide were built to connect roads and cities but often came with the added consequence of cutting...

By H. Jiahong Pan, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. Originally published October 13, 2022. I-94 plan seeks to resurrect a destroyed community  Advocates for a land bridge over I-94 in Rondo say their...

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...