MINNEAPOLIS — Hy-Vee says it's delaying plans for a grocery store in suburban Minneapolis after a push to save a historic theater on the site.
Hy-Vee had planned a 91,500-square-foot grocery in Robbinsdale, a northwest suburb, which would have been its seventh location in the Twin Cities. The Des Moines-based company quickly became a target for people seeking to save the historic Terrace Theatre from being demolished to make way for development on the 10-acre site.
They gathered more than 1,000 signatures calling for a boycott of the grocer.
"Over the past several weeks, it's been difficult to witness the friction our proposed project has caused among Robbinsdale residents," Hy-Vee spokeswoman Tara Deering-Hansen said in a prepared statement. "When we enter a community, we want to be respectful of our neighbors' history, culture and all the things that matter to them. We will continue to assess the situation and keep communication lines open with city officials."
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