Unless you've attended one of the rapid-fire auctions at the Minneapolis Police Property and Evidence Unit—where an ill-timed scratch of the nose could send you home with a stolen BMX or seized firearm—you might not be familiar with the industrial pocket just north of Highway 62 between Lyndale and Nicollet. Pockmarked with potholes and crisscrossed by railroad tracks, it's one of those areas the city would probably prefer to forget. The first time I visited the cinder-block warehouse adjacent to the concrete company on West 61st Street, its parking lot was ringed by wrecked automobiles and completely flooded by recent rains. It looked like one of the... More >>>