No small business likes it when development projects kick into gear near their front door. In order to help Woodward Ave businesses understand the potential impact of light construction, Minnesota's Twin Cities are offering some guidance.
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"Business owners along Detroit's Woodward Avenue are just beginning to worry.
Construction of that city's M1 streetcar line is expected to begin this summer. Although it will affect fewer businesses than the Green Line construction along St. Paul's University Avenue did, struggling Motown has few successful businesses to spare.
So they're looking to St. Paul's experience.
A group of Twin Cities developers who worked to mitigate the Green Line construction's adverse impact on local businesses is exporting their experience to a nonprofit called Midtown Detroit Inc."
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