Sumner-Glenwood is the name of a small neighborhood in the Near North community

Near North, Minneapolis

Near North is a community on the north side of Minneapolis. Contained within it are six smaller neighborhoods. Near North is the primary area represented in the North Minneapolis Encyclopedia, InsideNorthside....

 of Minneapolis, MN. It is roughly contained by 15 city blocks bordered to the north by 11th Avenue N., to the south by Glenwood Avenue, to the east by I-94, and to the west by both Girard Terrace and Emerson Avenue N (2). 3,336 people lived in the neighborhood before 1998, of whom roughly 66% were Asian

Asian people

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, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Pacific Islander

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, 29% were black

Black

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, and 5% were White

White people

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 (1). Almost all of these people lived in public housing

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The Sumner Field Homes, constructed by the WPA

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 in 1938, were the first federally subsidized homes in Minnesota. The homes were demolished in 1998, along with high-rise project housing buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. According to the US Census (1), the area experienced a 95.7% population loss from 3,336 in 1990 to 144 in 2000. Plans are in place to rebuild the area, re-incorporating it into surrounding street grids. Buildings following the "New Urbanism

New urbanism

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" style will mix of affordable and market rate units, and will replace the old project housing.

The new development is named Heritage Park, and it is possible the name of Sumner-Glenwood will be replaced by that name. One of the new streets in this development, Van White Memorial Boulevard, is named for Van Freeman White

Van Freeman White

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, the first African-American to serve on the Minneapolis City Council.