Local Newswire There goes the neighborhood: Trader Joe’s to build store on Lyndale Avenue

Prepare for protests. The Lyn-Lake area of Minneapolis—an area this writer would typically call Uptown, but will not in this instance, in an effort to avoid receiving angry tweets about how Lyn-Lake is not even close to being Uptown—will see the arrival of a Trader Joe’s. Trader Joe’s, as you might know, is not a co-operative grocery store, and is therefore a horrifying sign of yuppification, further pushing forward the corporatization of what was once one of Minneapolis’ most non-corporate neighborhoods. Or that’s the worry, at least. 

According to the Business Journal, this will be the sixth Trader Joe’s in Minnesota—and the arrival of an “Uptown” store shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention to local grocery news in the past five years. A couple of years ago, Trader Joe’s wanted to build a store near the Wedge Co-op, but the proposed location was too close to the beloved grocery store, and there were protests—protests of the sort that only people who shop at co-ops could afford to throw. But it looks like that’s all a moot point now: Uptown will be getting Joe’d.