Minneapolis leaders are celebrating the rebirth of a community, spurred by a small business. Holy Land Restaurant in northeast Minneapolis opened its doors Tuesday to the state’s first-ever hummus production plant.
The Wadi family brought a bit of Middle East to the land of hotdish and lutefisk in 1987. And they have never looked back.
The business started with the sale of one pita at a time. Holy Land now sells thousands a day and employs nearly 200 workers at two locations.
One of the locations sits along Central Avenue, which was once home to the old Sully’s Bar. If dive bars were measured in depth, Sully’s sat on the ocean floor. It made headlines as a place for prostitutes, drug dealers and nearly everything else the Wadi family was against.
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