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 St. Paul. Initially thought of as a moonshot, the federal infrastructure proposal’s targeting of historic racial inequities is bringing the

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 that bears repeating. “It was a decision that was a part transportation decision because they wanted to connect downtown St.

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. Paul Police Department, watched her parents thrive in the city’s Rondo neighborhood. The flourishing Black family owned a multilevel home

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 the neighborhood. The Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul was demolished around 60 years ago with the construction of Interstate 94,

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 through the heart of Black neighborhoods — displacing residents, destroying businesses, and shattering communities. Now, advocates from St. Paul, Minn.,

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 grassroots movement to make reparations to Black communities. Marvin Roger Anderson, now eighty-one years old, grew up in a development

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 St. Paul in the 1960s, taking out hundreds of homes and businesses. The massive construction project physically split the neighborhood

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 others. “It’s a story of heartache, it’s a story of anger, it’s a story of resentment, it’s a story of

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 centers on the central portion of Interstate 94, the state’s most used freeway, which carries around 150,000 cars a day

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 be a major reconstruction of Interstate 94 between Highway 55 to the west and Marion Street to the east in