Two of the last three Kmart stores in Minnesota are set to close Sunday. That means the Minneapolis store that blocks Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street — as it has for more than four decades — will be the retailer’s sole remaining outpost in the state.
City leaders have long hoped to reopen Nicollet. But given the history of development at the site, that won’t be easy.
After years of setbacks, work finally got underway in 1977 on a development that some future leaders would call one of the worst planning decisions in Minneapolis history.
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