Celebrate Lake Street

This year has brought ruthless challenges to Lake Street.

Lake Street has always been the heartbeat of our community — resilient, vibrant, and full of neighbors who show up for each other. This year’s Lake Street Bash is our way of saying thank you: to every business owner, volunteer, and neighbor who has shown up for our community, especially through its hardest moments.

Our Annual Report highlights the Lake Street Council’s work over the past 18 months to strengthen small businesses and nonprofits while standing with the immigrant entrepreneurs and diverse communities that make Lake Street special.

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Annual report

Welcome to Lake Street.
Bienvenido a Lake Street.
Kuu soo dhowow Lake Street.

About Lake Street Council

Since 1968, the Lake Street Council has worked to build an organization that serves the needs of Lake Street’s unique and diverse community. We do this through programs that support entrepreneurs, beautify our buildings and streetscape, and engage businesses and executives in policy initiatives.

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Odigo Wellness

Odigo Wellness is an integrative space where community members can receive trauma-informed care.

COPAL

Communidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina (COPAL) is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families.

Zizi Boutique

Balqiis Hersi was born in Somalia. Her mom would travel from Somalia to India for work as a designer. In the eighties, her entire family moved to India to escape the Somali Civil War. Growing up there, Balqiis fell in love with the patterns, colors, and prints used in Indian textiles. This love would stay with her and inspire Zizi Boutique.

Peer Pressure Fitness

Peer Pressure Fitness is a dedicated and goal-oriented neighborhood wellness hub that provides clients the necessary amount of motivation and inspiration to reach their targeted fitness and wellness goals. They service clients by optimizing the 8 Dimensions of Wellness while incorporating Minneapolis Culture to create an uplifting space that promotes personal health and community collaboration through Positivity, Energy, Equality, and Respect.

MIGIZI

In 1977, MIGIZI was founded as Migizi Communications, Inc. with a goal of countering the misrepresentations and inaccuracies about Native people in the media. In the 1900s MIGIZI found its home base on Lake Street and shifted to focus on serving youth. Most of the students they serve live along bus lines and being on Lake Street makes their programs accessible for their community.

Diamonds Home Health Care

Diamonds Home Health Care at 2740 Minnehaha Ave has been successfully providing Medicaid-certified home care services to the Lake Street community since 2005. This female owned agency has gone great lengths to provide the best service to their clients including protecting confidential patient files, while bullets pierced through the front of their office.

Admas Travel

Over the past 10 years, Admas Travel has helped over 50,000 clients travel experiences and memories. On May 30, 2020 Getachew Teklu discovered his business, Admas Travel had been looted and destroyed by fire overnight during the civil unrest in response to George Floyd’s murder. Getachew has not lost hope, he believes his business’ future is still bright and things will get better.

Nicholas Zimet, L.Ac Acupuncture

For 7 years, Nicholas Zimet has been operating his acupuncture clinic at the corner of 4th Ave and Lake Street. During this time, Nicholas and his team have focused on providing relief from pain, anxiety, and women’s health issues. They have found strong success with chronic and difficult to treat conditions that have not been resolved with medicine alone.

Midtown Eye Care

Midtown Eye Care has served the community as a safety net comprehensive eye care facility that provides eye exams, contact lenses and wide selection of frames and urgent care services.

Seward Pharmacy

Elias Usso and his wife opened Seward Pharmacy in late 2019 with the goal to provide better, more personal care to his neighbors compared to what they’d get at large retail pharmacy chains. Less than 6 months after opening, COVID-19 slowed down the new pharmacy. In summer 2020, the civil uprising completely destroyed it, “Everything we had in here was totally destroyed. It was really painful to see it.”