Midtown is a loosely defined region in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Lake Street/Midtown LRT Station, with service on the METRO Blue Line, is located on the eastern edge of the area.
[citation needed] Near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Lake Street is the Midtown Exchange building, which was a Sears department store and mail-order catalog facility until the company closed it in 1994.
After sitting vacant for a decade, the building was fully redeveloped into a mixed-use commercial and residential space, housing the Midtown Global Market, a large marketplace with shops and restaurants.
As of January 2009, a new market has opened in the former True Value Hardware site at the Hi-Lake Shopping Center (21st Ave and Lake St), housing Somali businesses.