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The owners of HmongTown Marketplace in St. Paul are planning to turn the vacant former Sears store at Maplewood Mall into a HmongTown Marketplace 2.0. The space could include a grocer, adult daycare center, entertainment zone, office space, spa, food court, farmers market and more. HmongTown Marketplace owner Toua Xiong, whose LLC bought the former Sears building and some of the land around it .
By early 2021, researchers estimated Hmong people accounted for about 50% of deaths among Minnesotans of Asian descent though they made up only about 25% of that population.