Part 4 of 4 housing policy/wonkish posts. Click on the links for part 1, part 2, part 3.
I spent a week this summer helping Bryan Thao Worra become a former Hawthornite. He moved out to the LA area, and we drove across country in a moving van, sampling ghost peppers along the way. Once we hit the ocean, we bombed around Los Angeles, San Diego, and whatever other cities there are along the sprawling coastal metropolis area. In San Diego, I came across this sign and snapped a photo to remind me to go back and research what they were doing to save a potential historic site from demolition. What could Minneapolis learn from other areas?
It almost seemed I was destined to look into this more. "Fat City" is a nightclub located along the historic Pacific Highway, with Hawthorn Street as the nearest intersection. Like Fuji-Ya here in Minneapolis, Fat City was the beneficiary of a pioneering Asian-American businessperson, Tom Fat.
