Midwest Minnesota CDC Grocery Store Project Visited by Treasury Secretary
On August 8th, 2016, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew visited Seward Community Cooperative Friendship Store, a grocery store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The store, which is located in a low-income census tract and provides access to healthy, fresh foods, was financed in part by the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) and federal Community Economic Development (CED) funds from Midwest Minnesota Community…