Stories of Lake Street’s Recovery & Resilience
Read about what makes our Lake Street businesses so special and the efforts they’ve made to recover and rebuild after the civil uprising and the struggles of Covid-19 in our Not Just a Business blog.
Midori’s Floating World Cafe
Tucked away behind dark windows at the corner of Lake Street and 27th Ave, owners John and Midori Flomer quietly made delicious Japanese cuisine for Longfellow residents for over 15 years before Midori’s Floating World Cafe found itself at the epicenter of a fight for racial justice.
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.
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.”