Spooky, dark, unsafe, scary...

Before September 2005, these adjectives regularly escaped the lips of Marcy-Holmes and Southeast Como residents when 15th Avenue S.E. crept into conversation. Today, faces beam as brightly as the new pedestrian lighting along that street--north of the University of Minnesota's East Bank and the Mississippi River--and the residents can't say enough about the added glow to their neighborhood. . . .

. . . "This is an example of citizens and government working together," says Zerby. "It would never have happened without everybody doing what they did--the students, the University, the Southeast Como and Marcy Holmes neighborhoods, the Southeast Como Improvement Association, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, and many property owners who agreed to sign the petitions." . . .