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What should go here?: Jack Yee Restaurant

A new feature that asks residents how Hopkins should fill its vacant spaces.

Hopkins has several exciting development projects on the horizon, but vacant properties still dot the community’s real estate landscape.

While there’s little doubt residents would like to fill those properties, they also offer the opportunity to remake Hopkins’ landscape. That’s already happening at the site on Blake Road and the old site on Eighth Avenue.

In this new feature, Patch asks you to imagine the future of these spaces. Do you see a new restaurant? A new store? Something no one else has considered? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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In this inaugural edition, we start off in Hopkins’ downtown.

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1016 Mainstreet

What was it? Jack Yee Restaurant

Vacant: Since December 2009

Current owner: Hennepin County forfeited land

Area: 3,901 square feet

Age of structure: 1930

History: Hopkins inspectors closed up Jack Yee in August 2009 because of health and sanitation violations. When the restaurant continued to operate anyway, the city revoked the restaurant’s license in November 2009 then changed the locks and forced the owner to remove perishables a month later following a district court injunction.

 

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