West Bank/Cedar Avenue

The Cedar-Riverside, also referred to as the West Bank, is a neighborhood within Minneapolis, Minnesota. The boundaries of the neighborhood are the Mississippi River to the north and east, Interstate 94 to the south, and Hiawatha Avenue and Interstate 35W to the west. Cedar-Riverside is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the Twin Cities-in close proximity, there are urban poor of diverse ethnic backgrounds, college students, and middle-class urbanites.

The neighborhood is part of the larger University community, and is dominated by the West Bank campus of the large University of Minnesota's (U of M) Minneapolis Campus, which includes the Law School, Carlson School of Management and West Bank Arts Quarter. The two halves of the U of M are connected by the landmark Washington Avenue Bridge. The neighborhood also features Augsburg College, a private liberal arts college and the College of St. Catherine's Minneapolis Campus. The presence of these campuses brings a progressive flavor to the neighborhood.

Cedar-Riverside is ethnically diverse, due in large part to the presence of the Riverside Plaza and its 1,300 units. The Riverside Plaza is home to between 2,500 and 3,500 people, many of which are immigrants and refugees. Currently, most immigrants in the neighborhood come from East Africa. The high number of Somali refugees in particular has earned the neighborhood the nickname Little Somalia or Little Mogadishu. East Africans are the latest wave of foreign-born residents, following the Europeans of a century and more ago and the Vietnamese and other Asians of just twenty years back. Source wikipedia

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