{"id":6710,"date":"2016-02-18T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2020-02-07T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:02:01","slug":"kare-11-news-airs-segment-on-devean-george-99-development-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/18\/kare-11-news-airs-segment-on-devean-george-99-development-project\/","title":{"rendered":"KARE 11 news airs segment on development project spearheaded by Devean George &#8217;99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-24-at-4.04.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-24-at-4.04.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Kare 11 - logo\" width=\"207\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>KARE 11 news staff recently interviewed former NBA player <strong>Devean George &#8217;99<\/strong> about The Commons at Penn Avenue, a mixed-use building development in north Minneapolis that George has been working on for four years. The building includes upscale low-income housing and will be the site of a co-op grocery store that will open this summer.<\/p>\n<p>George compared the complexity\u00a0of completing the project with\u00a0the effort required to join the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been really difficult. It was a little bit like pre-draft for me,\u201d George said. \u201cComing from a small school I had to prove myself and play well all the time. It was similar to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch and read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/retired-nba-players-builds-housing-complex-in-north-minneapolis\/42835807\">Retired NBA players builds housing complex in north Minneapolis<\/a> on the KARE 11 site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARE 11 news staff recently interviewed former NBA player Devean George &#8217;99 about The Commons at Penn Avenue, a mixed-use building development in north Minneapolis that George has been working on for four years. The building includes upscale low-income housing and will be the site of a co-op grocery store that will open this summer. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[330,3185,849,3636,3227,2139,3064],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-basketball","tag-devean-george","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-kare-11","tag-north-minneapolis","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9708,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/9708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}