A Rep. Phillips run? + Kmart fire
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Coming up on Morning Edition: As Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips edges closer to a primary challenge to President Joe Biden, he's playing up the need for political alternatives. He faces a deadline a week from Friday to file for candidacy in New Hampshire if he intends to run. Reporter Mark Zdechlik went to Phillips' district to ask some of his constituents what they make of his White House talk.
Coming up at 11 a.m.: This week, on Big Books and Bold Ideas, host Kerri Miller sits down with C Pam Zhang to talk about what moved her to write her book "Land of Milk and Honey," how her faith background informs her view of science and why she moved from California to New York City during the pandemic. | |
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| | Fire burning at former Lake Street Kmart building in Minneapolis |
Crews are battling a large fire this morning at the former Lake Street Kmart building in south Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis Fire Department reported just after 5 a.m. that firefighters were on-scene at the vacant department store at Lake and Nicollet, just west of Interstate 35W, "with heavy fire showing."
The Kmart store was built in the 1970s, infamously blocking off a portion of Nicollet Avenue. In 2020, Minneapolis paid Kmart’s corporate owner $9.1 million to end the store’s lease early — it was scheduled to expire in 2053 — and close the site. It was the last Kmart in the state to close.
Since then, planning and discussions have been under way for redevelopment of the vacant building and property.
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