MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly two years since the murder of George Floyd turned 38th Street and Chicago Avenue into a semi-autonomous protest zone, the city of Minneapolis has started to figure out what's next for the complicated intersection of culture, business and historic trauma.
"I have not fully recovered from that time and I know that we as a community have not fully recovered from that time. I don't know when we will. I do know that we have to try," City Council President Andrea Jenkins, whose Eighth Ward abuts George Floyd Square, said Saturday. "It is important for our own mental health. It is important for the economic development of our neighborhood."
Last year, Mayor Jacob Frey proposed a permanent memorial to Floyd at the intersection where he died in the custody of Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. On Saturday afternoon at Phelps Recreation Center, staff from the Public Works Department joined elected officials for the first of two town hall meetings this month to discuss reconstructing 38th and Chicago.
