Native American Group Preparing Big Affordable Housing Project

The mixed-use development will have 115 units of affordable housing and a medical clinic.

MINNEAPOLIS—The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians is getting ready to launch a major affordable housing development that will change the face of this city’s  American Indian Cultural Corridor, home to the greatest concentration of urban American Indian people in the state. The group, which also has 900,000 acres of land and water in the northwest part of MN, just purchased 37,367 square feet of land at 2109 Cedar Ave. in Minneapolis.

They plan to build a mixed-use development on the site, located at the intersection of 17^th Ave. South and Cedar Ave. about 200 feet from the Franklin Station of the Blue Line, and say it will benefit not just the roughly 2,100 Red Lake Band members plus their descendants that live in the Twin Cities area, but the entire Seward community.