#Downtown Minneapolis

[chaddavisphotography]

The demolition of an 8 story office building on Nicollet Mall to make way for an expansion by Westminster Presbyterian Church.

[metrotransitposter]

downtown minneapolis public transit is the messiest of bitches right now and I support her

[hclib]

Loring Park's Dandelion Fountain To Be Reconstructed

The iconic Berger Fountain, more commonly known as the Dandelion Fountain, was installed in Loring Park in 1975. In 2020 the fountain ceased working and reconstruction was prioritized by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Concept design work began in spring 2023.

Photos of the Berger Fountain from the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

Learn more about the Berger Fountain Reconstruction project on the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board website.

[analogemo]

Mary Tyler Moore statue, Nicollete Mall

[twincitiesgeek]

The 2024 Downtown Minneapolis Convention Guide

CONvergence is here! Check out our updated guide to the food, transportation, and last-minute cosplay supply shopping available downtown—including what's open on July 4.

Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Douglas Muth via Flickr Maybe you’re getting ready for CONvergence at the Hyatt Regency or Twin Cities Con at the Minneapolis Convention Center. And maybe you’re a little nervous because you aren’t that familiar with downtown Minneapolis. Don’t panic! Whether it’s your first downtown convention or your umpteenth, this guide will point you in the right…

[clairity-org]

Minneapolis 6/23/23 by Sharon Mollerus

[nordinor]

Downtown Minneapolis, Digital Photography

Travel and nature prints are available on my Etsy Page

[mnfairchild]

Welcome to my Good Girl Blog.

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[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Rainy Evening on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis (1910) via Hennepin County Library

[chaddavisphotography]

The views from the new Green Line Extension are going to be pretty great! Like this one between Royalston/Farmers Market Station and Target Field Station.

[metrotransitposter]

it is the sunday before a high traffic holiday and holidazzle is still going on, so good luck getting anywhere as scheduled today on routes in the minneapolis downtown zone. plan ahead and plan for delays

[hclib]

Cars, Cars, and More Cars

Zoom into the photo above, from 1967, and you'll see cars parked sometimes eight cars deep, packed into surface parking lots like sardines. (Presumably parking attendants were managing the movement of cars in and out of these lots throughout the day.) Parking and traffic congestion had been a problem in downtown Minneapolis since at least the 1940s and was still a major concern in 1969 when the above report was published. When much of the Gateway was demolished in the late 1950s and early 60s ("urban renewal"!), a lot of land was converted to parking lots. But with more parking spots came even more cars driving downtown. Newly built highways were improving speedy access to downtown and a comprehensive public transit plan, from the newly formed Metropolitan Transit Commission, was still in the works. Cars primarily got people where they were going.

Much of downtown remained a sea of parking lots for decades. Browse over 1,400 photos of parking lots in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Find parking studies from the 1940s to the early 2000s in the Minneapolis History Collection on the 4th floor of Central Library.

[operafloozy]

Look, if I'm going to be insulted, I need some more clarification.

For reference, the mayor of Minneapolis thought it'd be great to insult people who would rather work from home by saying that they were 'losers' who 'would rather sit on their couches with their nasty cat blankets diddling on their laptops'

[sajebrushedart]

Washington Ave

[boyenthusiast]

omfg you know you live in a rural state when you're downtown in a Big City, surrounded by skyscrapers and go "where is the sky ?? where is the sky !!?"