Morgan Park can be transformed through swift investment.

For Morgan Park residents, walking along our main street, 88th Avenue West, can be bleak. You can't help but grieve over the lost potential. An aging gas station and garage sit next to two storage units. America's first-ever modern indoor mall now houses only a thrift store and a corporate office. Then there's the park — with a large empty lot next to it. There is no street life or vibrant culture here.

Morgan Park has roughly 2% of Duluth’s population, according to Statistical Atlas. We should expect more than a neighborhood that has never quite arrived.

While Morgan Park's distance from the heart of Duluth may justify some of the shortfall, its room for growth does not. Looking only at large-scale developments, there are 181 hou

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