So. Minneapolis to Get Business Supported Jesuit High School

The near South Side of Minneapolis will get a business-supported Catholic high school as part of a long-planned youth-development center project that recently gained a crucial partner and financial traction.

Ryan Companies, developer of the renovated Sears Roebuck complex, expects to break ground in late May on the $27.8 million Colin Powell Leadership Center on vacant land north of 4th Avenue S. and E. Lake Street. It will include a small, Jesuit-run high school that eventually will serve up to 500 low-income neighborhood kids whose tuition will be paid partly by sponsoring businesses through internship programs. Star Tribune