In a message dated 8/26/03 3:26:35 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << It was on the west side of the Mississippi River. Her address was 606 33rd Avenue North/3307 North 6th Street. This is north of Fairview Park and west of I-94. >> It should be right under 94. Lyndale is the 700 block and that is both east of west of 94 as the service road of it. Either that or it should be under the garbage burner, which is north of 7th Street and south of Olson Highway. If you have a map, look at the intersection of 7th and Olson Highway. Northwest corner is occupied by a Wells Fargo bank, Northeast corner is the Metro Transit bus garage, southeast corner is the garbage burner, southwest corner a small company of some kind, with Sharing Caring Hands towards downtown on 7th Street, just past it, then a daycare center, then some housing run by Sharing Caring Hands. At that point 7th street is a bridge over 394 going into downtown, and the housing sits kind of underneath but next to the bridge. On the west side of 94 there used to be a housing project on the north side of Olson Highway and another one on the south side of Olson Highway. The area had deteriorated badly and about 3 years ago both projects were demolished after being used by the police as practice grounds for entering and capturing druggies, etc., which had been what had been happening alot there. Or trying to defuse a domestic abuse situation, which was also a very high call rate in that area before they evacuated it. In fact that demolition and several other project demolitions caused such a housing shortage for a while that our homes all over the Twin Cities were going up 25,000 a year or more a year for a while there. They are now building condos on both sites. North of the bus company and toward downtown is an industrial area, that is being reclaimed and renovated into an area with jobs, but basically cleaner industries, like Duffy paper, some printing companies, Muscle Bound Bindery. The garbage burner has been linked to businesses and buildings in the downtown area to provide heat and it is actually a fairly aesthetically pleasing compound. The bus company building was built in the '80s and is also a nice clean, well kept place (if I do say so myself, considering I work there). The buildings are set in a L shape, so the buses that are left in the yard for any reason, etc. are not seen as they are behind the buildings. However, buses are not usually left outside very much, they are mostly kept within the building. From 94 (which at that point is actually running north and south because it has made a turn) west and north of Olson Highway it is mostly resdential with some light industry along 94 and Lyndale. South of Olson Highway is in the process of improvement. Like I said, condo's are being built to replace the projects that were there. And south of there is an industrial area that is also slowly being renovated and reclaimed. The old Buckby Mears building (I think that is what it was) is now an International Market Square building. Between 94 and the river alot of the warehousing is being reclaimed and renovated and is housing light industry. Alot of the old dilapidated buildings on Washington Avenue have been demolished and there are now new light industrial buildings there. East of there, along the river a River Walk has been constructed and behind it new condos have been built. Some of the old warehouses have been renovated into condos. From a really bad slum area it is slowly becoming a much better looking and safer place, although because of all the bridges over 94 and 394, the large open spaces the safety factor will never be that of a neighborhood (which in itself, has deteriorated because of the fact that we are talking larger cities here). Annie in Minnesota