Uptown Theater to be renovated Uptown Theater to be renovated

Uptown Theater to be renovated

A significant enhancement of the theater’s interior will take place this winter.

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Question of the Week: Trader Joe’s Question of the Week: Trader Joe’s

Question of the Week: Trader Joe’s

Do you currently shop at Trader Joe’s? Would you shop at Trader Joe’s if it is successful in its bid to come to the Uptown area?

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Bennett Lumber Site changes hands Bennett Lumber Site changes hands

Bennett Lumber Site changes hands

National apartment-building owner/developer, Greystar, purchased the Bennett Lumber Site.

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Potential Trader Joe’s wine shop boxed out? Update Potential Trader Joe’s wine shop boxed out? Update

Potential Trader Joe’s wine shop boxed out? Update

Trader Joe’s representatives presented revised plans for its proposed store at 27th and Lyndale, but a new liquor store proposal across the street may threaten the project’s viability.

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Business

Uptown Theater to be renovated

Uptown Theater to be renovated

A significant enhancement of the theater’s interior will take place this winter.

Jan 26, 2012 0:04

History

On This Day: January 25, 1905

From the Minneapolis Tribune: FENDER SAVES A LIFE Roland Wheeler, the seven-year-old son of A. M. Wheeler, 3432 Bryant avenue south, was seriously, if not fatally, injured by being struck by a street car Monday afternoon just as he was returning home from school. At the place in the street where the accident occurred, between [...]

Jan 25, 2012 5:04

Policy

Liquor store weirdness gets weirder

Props to the Star Tribune’s MPLS. blog for doing some digging and coming up with two interesting maps, one showing the few remaining spots in Minneapolis where a liquor store could legally open, and the other the City’s official master map showing eligible off sale sites and all the relevant details like zoning, buffers from [...]

Oct 18, 2011 11:39

Community

How to fund Uptown’s Top of the Mall redesign?

How to fund Uptown’s Top of the Mall redesign?

The space just north of the Walker Library, known as the “top of the Mall”, may be rebuilt. A design process is almost done but the question is, how will it get funded?

Oct 31, 2011 20:58

Recent Articles

Uptown Theater to be renovated

Uptown Theater to be renovated

A significant enhancement of the theater’s interior will take place this winter.

On This Day: January 25, 1905

From the Minneapolis Tribune: FENDER SAVES A LIFE Roland Wheeler, the seven-year-old son of A. M. Wheeler, 3432 Bryant avenue south, was seriously, if not fatally, injured by being struck by a street car Monday afternoon just as he was returning home from school. At the place in the street where the accident occurred, between [...]

Question of the Week: Trader Joe’s

Question of the Week: Trader Joe’s

Do you currently shop at Trader Joe’s? Would you shop at Trader Joe’s if it is successful in its bid to come to the Uptown area?

On This Day: January 23, 1920

From the Minneapolis Tribune: “A total of $524,400 was the day’s mark in [City of Minneapolis] building permits, the registration including … a $3,000 boiler house to the Johnson Certified Milk company’s plant at 2824 Emerson avenue south, and a $7,500 addition to the Crown Milk company’s big barn at 2928 Emerson avenue south.”

Jon English / Ragstock Building Renovation

Could another home furnishings store move into Uptown? Jonathan Adler is the latest buzz.

Bennett Lumber Site changes hands

Bennett Lumber Site changes hands

National apartment-building owner/developer, Greystar, purchased the Bennett Lumber Site.

Potential Trader Joe’s wine shop boxed out? Update

Potential Trader Joe’s wine shop boxed out? Update

Trader Joe’s representatives presented revised plans for its proposed store at 27th and Lyndale, but a new liquor store proposal across the street may threaten the project’s viability.

A second project at 27th & Lyndale

A second project at 27th & Lyndale

A new proposal emerges for the southeast corner of 27th and Lyndale for a relocated Flanders Cycle and a new 11,000 square foot retail building potentially housing a liquor store, restaurant, and butcher shop/deli.

On This Day: December 25, 1925

A new building proposed east of Lyn-Lake.

Duplex restaurant closes in Lowry Hill District

Duplex restaurant closes in Lowry Hill District

Duplex restaurant closed its doors at its two-story home converted restaurant in the Lowry Hill District on Hennepin.