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As many of you know, the U.S.P.S. Minnehaha Station Post Office, 3033 27th Ave
S., Mpls, has always leased its brick building from private owners based in
Bloomington, MN. Last Friday, Jan 29, I spoke with the agent from an accounting
firm whom handles all financial transactions of the private owners. We spoke
for an hour and the gentleman was quite helpful and open in answering questions
concerning our community.
He said the property remains under the current lease agreement, and nothing has
been signed. Yet he is ā98% likely to rebuild Minnehaha Post Office at same
locationā. And it is likely that the private owners will sell the building and
land to the U.S. Postal Service as the longtime private owners are now quite
elderly, in their eighties, and have no desire to take on the major contracting
effort of rebuilding themselves.
Rod, the agent (whom was listed in publicly available MN property records) said
that the U.S.P.S. is ātending to want to buy the land and provide the capital
to rebuild it themselves,ā thus transferring building and land to public
ownership. To be sure, Rod later in conversation said there is a āhigh
probability of staying on site, same footprint, yet based on current building
standards.ā
Finally, he offered his email address for further communication. I emailed Rod,
and Nicole Hill (local USPS contact) the following Slideshow of mainly photos I
took of our Minnehaha Post Office of how much I believe it means to us and how
the Post Office has stood on that same corner for 94 years, back to 1927. The
photos were of every aspect of the building and land, some taken on Dec. 9,
2020 to document as much as possible the day before the wrecking ball
completely razed the Minnehaha Post Office on Dec. 10, 2020. Frankly, it was a
bear putting it together, with great IT assistance from my daughter. Hereās the
YouTube link, hope you enjoy it and continue to take action.
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In Community Solidarity,
joel
Joel M. Albers
Health Economist
Co-op Care, an initiative of
Universal Health Care Action Network of MN, 501(C)(3)
Clinical Pharmacist
Hikma Pharmacy, West Bank, Mpls
An East African Pharmacy, Open to the Public
612-384-0973
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And
you have to do it all the time.
Angela Davis