On Thursday, April 30, four Northeast-related organizations received grants from the City of Minneapolis’ Great Streets Neighborhood Business District program. The grants are part of a $1 million cash infusion aimed at helping businesses recover from Operation Metro Surge.

Minneapolis and its surrounding metro area are changing. According to a trend forecast by the Metropolitan Council, a policy-making board involved with the metro area, by 2050, the Twin Cities’ population is estimated to increase by roughly 657,000. The same study estimated that Minneapolis’s population would increase by about 84,000 residents in the same window.