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| city_state = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| opened = March 5, 1978
| closed = June 2020
| store_type = Pre-1987 Prototype
| floor_area = {{convert|91805|sqft|m2}}
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'''Kmart #3405'''
After the store closed, various community members proposed creating murals on the side of the building before it was demolished, which Kmart management initially rejected. Black artist Leslie Barlow said that at one point, a white Kmart manager approved some mural designs, before he "saw who we were, and reversed his approval, calling the ideas 'anarchist'." Ultimately, the store management allowed mural painting to begin on June 15, continuing through June 26. One of the murals, painted by white artist Christina Marie and titled "Reconciliation", depicted a white police officer hugging a Black protester. Civil rights activists in Minneapolis described "Reconciliation" as "tone-deaf" and "insensitive", with former [[Minneapolis NAACP]] president Nekima Levy Armstrong calling the mural "out of touch... with reality" and "an example of some of the {{w|gaslighting}} and nonsense we as Black people have to deal with in this town."<ref>Eler, Alicia. [https://www.startribune.com/tone-deaf-mural-painted-on-lake-st-kmart-removed/571664742/?refresh=true "'Tone-deaf' mural on Lake Street Kmart removed"], [[Minneapolis Star-Tribune]], July 8, 2020.</ref>
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