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For Dayton, it’s his way or the skyway Eric Dayton is assembling a grassroots group to turn the tide on downtown’s skyways.

Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com Even a 4-below-zero day with a biting wind chill can’t shake Eric Dayton’s view that downtown’s skyways have got to go. Clad in a parka like the ones sold at Askov Finlayson, Dayton and his brother’s clothing store in the North Loop, he aims to lead others to celebrate downtown in all seasons. Dayton recently launched the Skyway Avoidance Society, a grassroots

group of downtowners who have pledged not to use the skyways, in order to build the case against miles of footbridges linking the center of the city. “It’s people who care about downtown, who don’t like the direction they see it going. It’s a first step we can all take, to vote with our feet and populate our city’s streets,” he said. “I want to create a real

movement around this that’s a lot bigger than Askov Finlayson.” The coalition got its start over the past few months as rumors — now confirmed to be true — swirled about the closing of Nicollet Mall’s Macy’s, where Dayton’s great-great-grandfather started the department store that would later become Target.

Askov Finlayson owner Eric Dayton has launched the Skyway Avoidance Society, a group of people who pledge to avoid the skyways and brave the city’s weather year-round. Photo by Eric Best

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Library digitizes special collections Items include old Minneapolis yearbooks, building permits

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@journalmpls.com Hennepin County Library is undertaking a new effort to digitize historical content related to the history of Minneapolis. The library has scanned items from its special collections into its computer system and has uploaded about 35,000 of them online. Online users can view the content for no cost and without a library card, and they can download it, with a few exceptions, as long as credit is given to the library. Ted Hathaway, special collections, preservation and digitization manager for Hennepin County Library, said the effort allows library staff to better preserve original content. The collections include everything from editorial cartoons to Minneapolis building

permit index cards and photos of Minneapolis street scenes from throughout the 1900s. Also included are World War II posters, city directories, theater posters and business trade cards. The library’s staff and volunteers have been digitizing material since Hathaway started there in 2011, but he said the administration really bought into the effort in 2014. They upload each photo’s metadata, such as its date of creation and description, which Hathaway said can be a laborious process, especially for handwritten material. The digital archives have been popular, Hathaway said, with about 1,500 users in the final week of December. Comparatively, the special collections wing of the Central

Library may get about 4,500 visitors in an entire year, he said. Hathaway said digitization of records is more common in the academic world as well as in big-city libraries. He said his team mostly keeps the original materials, since digital files can become corrupt. The library staff and volunteers are digitizing everything from slide transparencies to yearbooks, which rank among the most popular items, Hathaway said. The Hennepin County Attorney’s office said staff could make yearbooks available only through 1977 due to copyright laws. “This would be interesting to people anywhere in the world,” he said. Minneapolis has worked with Hathaway’s SEE HCLIB / PAGE 15

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ZIPCAR CAN STILL GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT 2 GO… The winter holiday displays at the downtown Macy’s store have been an annual tradition for many in Minneapolis since it was Dayton’s. Photo by Eric Best

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Macy’s recently announced that it has agreed to sell its three-building complex on Nicollet Mall, known as the original home of Dayton’s department store. The buyer, New York-based 601W Cos., plans to redevelop the building into creative office space on the upper floors and retail space on the street and skyway levels, according to Macy’s. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the fiscal year. The long-rumored closing of downtown’s largest retailer, expected to come by the spring according to the Minneapolis Downtown Council, is one of 68 Macy’s store closings by mid-2017. The retailer also plans to close approximately 30 additional stores over the next few years as leases or operating agreements expire. The company estimates 3,900 associates, including 280 in Minneapolis, will be displaced as a result of the closures. Last year the company announced that it was looking for a buyer for the 1.26 million-square-foot department store complex after redevelopment efforts failed to pan out. The 115-year-old building at 7th & Nicollet, built in 1902 and the original home of Dayton’s, has been a Macy’s store for the past decade. The sale also includes two other, more modern buildings built in 1913 and 1929. Gov. Mark Dayton’s great-grandfather George Dayton created the department store, which would later become Target Corp. Dayton said his family has expected the end of the store for generations. “Fifty years ago, Dayton-Hudson began

investing in Target stores, because my father and uncles foresaw that large, downtown department stores were not the future of retailing,” Dayton said. “Unfortunately, their foresight has proven to be correct, as it now affects the former Minneapolis Dayton’s store.” Mayor Betsy Hodges said she expects the new owners to bring in “targeted, specialty retail” that will be successful in a changing downtown retail climate, which hasn’t favored large retail stores in recent decades. “The repurposing and reimagining of the iconic old Dayton’s building, which helped define downtown Minneapolis in the 20th century, is a huge opportunity for downtown Minneapolis in the 21st century,” Hodges said in a statement. “Just as the redesigned Nicollet Mall will be a regional and national destination in itself, I am hopeful that this new development will prove to be a destination at the heart of Nicollet Mall.” Steve Cramer, president and CEO of the Downtown Council, said in a statement that he would meet with 601W and city officials to begin discussing plans for the building. “For many years the former Dayton’s building has been an underutilized asset at the center of our business district, with hundreds of thousands of vacant square feet. With the sale of the building to an experienced, well-capitalized developer with urban retail experience — 601 W Companies — we have an opportunity to revitalize this iconic structure in the heart of downtown,” he said.

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The Washington, a redevelopment of the Sex World building from Falcon Ridge Partners, will welcome arts-and-crafts bar Upstairs Circus this year. File image

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While Minneapolis bar patrons are used to craft beverages, Upstairs Circus is going a step further and offering guests another kind of craft, from assembling artsy accessories to DIY decor. The Denver-based social bar concept is expanding into the Twin Cities with a location on the ground floor of The Washington, the redevelopment of the Sex World building at 2nd & Washington near the North Loop neighborhood. Guests at Upstairs Circus create arts and crafts in groups at socials while enjoying beer, cocktails and snacks. Much like typical food and beverage menus, the bar has an arts-and-crafts menu of various projects, from a six-pack beer carrier and a leather dog collar to string art and bracelets, which guests order from. All the supplies and directions from staff creative assistants are included in $30–$40 project socials. The crafts, which the bar is tailoring to its new Minneapolis audience, take about one and three hours to complete. For food, a spokeswoman told the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association that they plan to serve a variety of flatbreads and pizzas. Guests can also bring in their own food and snacks, though drinks aren’t allowed. On the bar side, Upstairs Circus will serve a full bar with local beers, wine and spirits. The bar will have room for

90 people, though socials will have a max of about 50 or 60 people. Children and minors are allowed if a parent or guardian is present. Upstairs Circus will move into the former Sinners Gentlemen’s Club space on Washington Avenue, though its space is located far back in the building and won’t have its own street frontage or sidewalk seating. It will have exterior signage, the spokeswoman said. Upstairs Circus at 121 Washington Ave. N. is expected to open later this year. The bar is expected to be open 3 p.m.–10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 3 p.m.–11 p.m. or midnight on Friday, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m.–2 p.m. on Sunday. It will be closed Mondays. Minneapolis-based Falcon Ridge Partners has begun leasing space in The Washington, its renovation of the Sex World building and a neighboring building into creative office and commercial space. It recently welcomed online men’s clothing brand Bonobos. The corner of 2nd & Washington has drawn increasing interest with Red Cow restaurateur Luke Shimp opening his next concept, Red Rabbit, across the street from The Washington. Restaurateur John Rimarcik is also looking to rehabilitate the historic building kitty-corner from The Washington into office and retail space.

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Instinct Art Gallery has closed once more. The Nicollet Mall art gallery hosted two exhibitions this year following a January closing. While Instinct’s director, John Schuerman, said the gallery could possibly see one more show before it’s gone for good, no exhibitions have been announced. Instinct, located at 940 Nicollet Mall near Target, first

opened in September 2013. The gallery will live on with its “Transplant Eyes” exhibit moving to a Milwaukee art gallery later this year, Schuerman said. He is also working with an exhibit at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a show focused on gun violence at an undetermined location.

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Named for the legendary Minnesota Vikings player, Randle’s Restaurant and Bar is set to replace Ling & Louie’s and its unique Nicollet Mall patio. Submitted image

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Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill closed at the end of 2016, but the home of the Nicollet Mall restaurant won’t be inactive for long. Restaurateur Michael McDermott is replacing the Asian restaurant, which he opened more than two years ago, with an upscale sports bar called Randle’s Restaurant and Bar. Randle’s is named for John Randle, a former Minnesota Vikings player and Pro Football Hall of Famer. Concepts of the restaurant show a wall of TVs and renovations to Ling & Louie’s high-profile 13,000-square-foot space along Nicollet Mall. Randle’s will have the restaurant’s rooftop

patio and multiple private dining spaces. The eclectic menu includes staples like a house cheeseburger, specialties like Englishstyle fish and chips and catfish tacos, a variety of Asian wok dishes, sushi and salads. The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with a happy hour and a weekend brunch. With a full bar, Randle’s will offer beer, wine and a signature cocktail menu with a house margarita. Staff at Randle’s said it should open in mid-February. The restaurant, located at 921 Nicollet Mall, will be open 11 a.m.–midnight from Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.–2 a.m. on Friday, 9 a.m.–2 a.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m.–10 p.m. on Sunday.

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The restaurateurs behind the now-closed Tangiers plan to open a new food-focused concept called Hennepin Steam Room in the former nightclub space in the North Loop. Ivy Taheri, who operated The Tangiers and recently opened Stem Wine Bar & Eatery across the river, said the approximately 90-seat restaurant and bar will offer a more sophisticated dining atmosphere with live music several nights a week. Hennepin Steam Room, whose name harkens back to the 1884 building’s historical use, is expected to open later this month. Chef Jesse Spitzack (Graves 601 Bradstreet Crafthouse) is heading the restaurant’s menu, which Taheri said would have an emphasis on local and seasonal ingredients. There will also be a cocktail program, and its wine list will feature several vendors from Stem’s wine program. They’re planning to have a happy hour and late-night happy hour, she added. On in the inside, Taheri said the Catholic Eldercare DTJ 011217 4.indd 1

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concept’s “elemental” design will feature a floor-to-ceiling glass wine room, an open-air kitchen and a mix of lounge, bar and traditional dining seating. Rather than nightclub DJs, Hennepin Steam Room will host more eclectic and relaxed live music. “It’s going to be really different,” Taheri said. “It’s fun. It’s current. It’s unique. It’s very North Loop.” Hennepin Steam Room is expected to open Feb. 10 at 116 1st Ave. N. The eastern side of the neighborhood has recently seen activity thanks to new townhomes from Ryan Cos. that are now under construction across the street. Truce Juice recently opened a juice bar next door and the Yoga Center of Minneapolis relocated its office and retail store to the Velo Apartments down the block. While the nearby Origami closed its doors more than year ago after nearly 26 years downtown, Kaiseki Furukawa, a Japanese kaiseki restaurant, is targeting a January opening in the building.

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Red Cow’s Ian Lowther ups the mini burger chain’s bar program at Red Rabbit in the North Loop. Submitted photo

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Red Cow restaurateur Luke Shimp has opened his next concept, an upscale pizza restaurant and bar dubbed Red Rabbit, which joins his burger restaurant in the North Loop. Former Parella chef Todd Macdonald, who left the shuttered Uptown restaurant to work for Shimp, leads the Italian-focused Red Rabbit, located in a 116-year-old building that was last home to an auto repair shop at Washington & 2nd. The concept, which opened right before the holidays, also features a vast cocktail program from Red Cow mixologist Ian Lowther. Macdonald’s lunch and dinner menus feature a handful of scratch pizzas ($9–$13), fresh and dried pasta dishes ($13–$15) and oysters, which come fresh, wood-grilled or paired with wine. A small selection of sandwiches, shareable appetizers, salads (“rabbit food”) and wood-grilled items round out Red Rabbit’s offerings. Shimp told The Journal in December that he plans to add brunch about six months or so after opening the restaurant. In the bar, Lowther offers a literal book of cocktails, spirits and wine. The house cocktails ($9–$11) cover a lot of ground, from

the Drunken Latte ($10) with rye whiskey, amaro, espresso, steamed milk and coconut whip cream, to the Zen and Now ($9), a tap nitro cocktail with match-infused vodka with lemon, honey and mint flavors. There’s also a classic cocktail menu with a French 75, Daiquiri and more, in addition to selections of aperitifs, spirits and a few dozen wines by the glass. “I think this will start a new conversation about [Lowther] and his cocktail program even if he’s done it at Red Cow,” Shimp said. The restaurant seats about 125 and has an approximately 70-seat patio in the back called The Greenhouse because it resembles a greenhouse. Like Red Cow, which now has three locations, Red Rabbit will likely grow beyond the flagship North Loop restaurant. Shimp recently announced that the fourth Red Cow would occupy Uptown’s longstanding Green Mill space this summer. Red Cow also has two stands at Target Field. Red Rabbit, located at 201 N. Washington Ave., is open for lunch daily from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. and dinner from 3 p.m.–midnight. The bar closes at 1 a.m. Red Rabbit’s happy hours are from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. and 10 p.m.–close.

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Two more enter mayor’s race in early January Following a brief holiday pause, the stream of new candidates diving into this year’s mayoral contest picked up after New Year’s Day. Ward 3 City Council Member Jacob Frey ended speculation about his potential candidacy, launching his campaign from atop the bar of a popular Northeast tap house. Frey was joined by Aswar Rahman, a 22-year-old filmmaker who has outlined a detailed plan for his first term, should he be elected one of the nation’s youngest mayors. Mayor Betsy Hodges announced her intention to run for a second term in December. Other announced candidates include state Rep. Raymond Dehn of Minneapolis and Nekima Levy-Pounds, a former University of St. Thomas law professor and president of the Minneapolis NAACP.

Long expected, Frey makes candidacy official Ward 3 City Council Member Jacob Frey hopped onto the bar at Northeast’s Dangerous Man Brewing Company on Jan. 3 and, in front of a packed house of supporters, took a leap into the 2017 mayoral race. It was a metaphorical leap and not one of the stage dives that crowd-surfing former Mayor R.T. Rybak became known for during three terms in office. Frey name-checked Rybak early in his announcement; the Virginia native and former professional runner described how he “fell in love” with Minneapolis while running in the Twin Cities Marathon, then moved here after graduating from law school in 2009 in part because of “visionary leaders” like Rybak. “Now more than ever Minneapolis needs a visible, present leader with a clear, bright vision, who is able to build coalitions, to bring people together and to really create opportunity,” Frey said in an interview the day after his announcement. Frey sketched out a platform that included expanding access to affordable housing, ending homelessness in the city and creating an environment where entrepreneurs and business owners can thrive. He said Minneapolis could be a “beacon of hope and inclusivity” during a period of national political upheaval. Frey said he believes strongly in the community-policing model. He said officers must be held to high standards and, in turn, the department needs the resources to commit officers to “narrow beats” that allow them to form relationships with community members. “You can’t possibly develop successful relationships if you’re constantly sprinting from 911 call to 911 call,” he said. Frey joined law firm Faegre & Beson (now Faegre Baker Daniels) after moving to Minneapolis and then took a job with Halunen & Associates. He defeated two-term incumbent Diane Hofstede to win the Ward 3 seat in 2013. Frey’s ward includes parts of downtown and Northeast Minneapolis, which he said had been a hotbed of activity during his term, seeing “nearly 50 percent of new investment” in housing and

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significant new business openings. He was the chief author of an ordinance that opened the city to ride-sharing services like Lyft and Uber and helped to craft the final version of an ordinance that required most Minneapolis employers to offer paid sick and safe time to their workers. Frey said he likes and respects Mayor Betsy Hodges, but added they have “significantly different leadership styles.” Noting that Minneapolis operates under a weak-mayor system, with much of the power vested in the City Council, he said “the only way you get things done in our city is by building a coalition, pitching a big vision, being out front and vocal and being present, even when it’s tough.”

With an eye on the city budget, a young filmmaker seeks office A 22-year-old Minneapolis filmmaker said he was inspired to jump into the 2017 mayoral race when he took a deep look into the city budget. “It’s like I was growing up on ship, and then I went into engine room accidentally, and then I looked at the engine and was like, ‘Oh, wait, there’s some problems here,’” said Aswar Rahman, a Southwest High School graduate who said he earned a history degree from the University of Minnesota when he was just 19. Rahman, who was born in Bangladesh and moved with his mother to Minneapolis as a child, said a platform that calls for reining-in city spending and ending property tax hikes has some labeling him a Republican. Rahman is a Democrat who plans to seek the DFL nomination, but in a recent blog post on his website — where he has posted a 200-week plan covering the next mayor’s entire four-year term — he blamed the members of his party who lead the city for “alienating” residents with irresponsible budgeting and evergrowing tax bills. “No one thinks raising the tax rate twice the population (growth) is a problem,” he said in a recent interview, expressing his surprise. “No one thinks that investing in small parks with massive amounts of money that are low-priority infrastructure needs is a problem.” Rahman said he spent three years as a youth policy assistant in former Mayor R.T. Rybak’s office. “I have more time in the mayor’s office than Jacob Frey,” he said, referring to the Ward 3 City Council member who made his candidacy for Minneapolis mayor official earlier this month.

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Reached via email, Rybak said he didn’t remember Rahman, but Claudia Fuentes, who worked as a policy aide to Rybak, said couldn’t forget the day she got a cold call from a teenager who said he wanted to learn about City Hall and would volunteer for any job. “I couldn’t believe this kid was 15,” Fuentes said. She said Rahman took on a variety of tasks, from meeting with delegations of foreign high school students to appearing at an AchieveMpls event to read a letter written by Rybak. People would often comment on Rahman’s poise and professionalism, she said. “I would get these calls where people would say, Aswar should run for mayor,” Fuentes recalled. “That was when he was in high school.” Asked about other experiences that have prepared him to take office, Rahman said making films turned him into an entrepreneur and taught him business administration skills. He also works as a freelance web designer, focusing on user-experience design — which he said trained him to identify problems and seek out the most efficient solutions. Rahman was critical of Mayor Betsy Hodges’ handling of the budget, singling-out the $10.5 million in the city’s five-year capital program for an overhaul of the Minneapolis Convention Center plaza. He noted the project received a low rating from the Capital Long-range Improvement Committee, or CLIC, a citizens’ committee that advises on capital spending. He also supports a participatory budgeting process with the year-round involvement of residents and business owners. Rahman said he would commit to diversifying the Minneapolis Police Department while adding 20 officers a year. He pointed to department statistics that show a gradual rise in violent crime that began before Hodges’ tenure. “If we can’t see a correlation between that and understaffing the police department chronically over the past few years, I must be missing something big,” he said. Rahman said he supports a $15 minimum wage, but instead of achieving that goal through passage of a city ordinance, he would prefer to invite business owners to develop their own plans for reaching $15 an hour by 2022. Business owners who signed-up for his “On Track to $15” plan would “receive recognition from the mayor’s office, which hopefully will drive up their socially conscious customer base,” he said. After moving to Minneapolis with his mother, Rahman made regular trips back to Bangladesh, where his father was a high-ranking military official. He said seeing the country’s vast disparities — an elite class living in luxury next to slums — made him “sensitive to systemic inequities.” “Coming to Minneapolis — I can not be more grateful,” he said. “If I was to choose in my dreams what kind of city I can grow up in, it would be Minneapolis.”

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Moments in Minneapolis / By Cedar Imboden Phillips

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Photograph courtesy Hennepin History Museum

When former local department store giant Dayton’s launched delivery service in the 1910s, their fleet included horse-drawn wagons! This photograph was taken in 1936, just one year after the last Dayton’s horses retired to the Dayton family farm. In total, a fleet of 55 Dayton’s trucks delivered goods to homes across Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.

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One riverfront park project gets development team, another doesn’t A former shipping terminal in North Minneapolis has attracted a development team, while just southward on the river, a former lumberyard is awaiting a redevelopment proposal. The Minneapolis City Council’s Community Development and Regulatory Services Committee recently approved the selection of Bloomington’s United Properties to lead a development team for the nearly 50-acre Upper Harbor Terminal site on the city’s North Side. The developer has already released a proposal for the city-owned parcel. Along with Thor Development and First Avenue Productions, the team is looking to build up to 1,000 units of housing, 150,000 square feet of creative office space, 70,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 180,000 square feet of space for advanced manufacturing. The preliminary plans also calls for a 10,000-person amphitheater and 18 acres of park space. The approved team also includes Coen + Partners, El Dorado Architects, LSE Architects, Nitsch Engineering, and Pierce Pini + Associates handling design, as well as community and programming partners Juxtaposition Arts, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, and Minnesota Public Radio. Now the team will work with the City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to negotiate an exclusive rights agreement, which is slated to come back for

council approval no later than May 1. Just downriver, the Park Board’s Scherer Bros. lumberyard site failed to attract a developer following a request for proposals that closed in December. The 12-acre park, located just directly north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge in Northeast Minneapolis, includes a portion for private development. Recently the board opened an expansion of the Mississippi East Bank Trail through the site. The board said at least three development teams have expressed interest in developing the portion of land, known as Parcel “D,” though none responded to the request. Last year, the board rejected a proposal for two 50,000-square-foot office buildings from Graco Minnesota Inc., the adjacent industrial abrasive manufacturer. Now the board will consider adjusting pieces of its request and strategizing other methods of creating a relationship with developers for the site. The Park Board will host an open house on the Upper Harbor Terminal, the Scherer site and other upper river park projects at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at its headquarters, located at 2117 West River Road N. The informal meeting is open to residents who would like to provide input on how to structure community engagement during the planning process.

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Guthrie Liner Parcel Mortenson Development has asked for more time to finance a 10-story hotel and oﬃce project near the Mill District in downtown Minneapolis. The Golden Valley-based developer has entered into an exclusive development rights agreement with the City of Minneapolis for a thin parcel of land along Washington Avenue known as the Guthrie Line Parcel. Mortenson is proposing to build a 235-room Hyatt Centric hotel on the first nine floors and oﬃce space for the American Academy of Neurology on the tenth floor. Mortenson’s third request for more time gives the developer an additional six months to finalize a redevelopment contract.

Ovative Group, a North Loop-based digital marketing and analytics firm, won’t move far when it expands into a new space next year. The company recently announced it is planning to move from 701 Washington Ave. N. to a new 10-story oﬃce project from United Properties that will be on the same block at 729 Washington Ave. N. Ovative will take about 30,000 square feet in the building, giving it room to add an estimated 100 jobs over the next few years. The proposed mixed-use building would have 184,000 square feet of oﬃce space, 15,000 square feet of retail space and 408 parking spaces, according to plans submitted to the Heritage Preservation Commission late last year.

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Neighborhood Sp tlight Minneapolis Skyway System

SKYWAY ESSENTIALS A defining feature of downtown is a subject of ongoing debate

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com The neighborhood featured in this edition of Neighborhood Spotlight isn’t a neighborhood, really. The Minneapolis skyway system is more like it’s own microenvironment in the urban ecosystem. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is open for debate — and Eric Dayton’s drive to recruit members to his Skyway Avoidance Society has provoked yet another round of conversations about the role skyways play in downtown street life and retail (see our cover story). But for many downtown workers, visitors and residents, the climate-controlled, second-story pedestrian network is a welcome convenience, especially in the wintertime. When they were first conceived in the mid-1950s, skyways were pitched as a way to attract new interest in the downtown core at a time when businesses and residents were moving to the suburbs. According to

the Minnesota Historical Society, a covered pedestrian bridge linking the Northstar Center to the Northwestern National Bank building opened in 1962 was the first skyway, and others quickly followed. The opening of the IDS Center in 1974, the first downtown building with skyway connections to all four adjacent blocks, was a major event in the system’s evolution. Estimates of its total length vary, but most agree the system was nearly 8 miles long — already one of the most extensive in the world — before a recent extension into Downtown East to link with U.S. Bank Stadium. The stadium hosts Super Bowl LII in a little over a year, and Minneapolis Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer said preparations are already underway to help visitors navigate the skyways with improved wayfinding and, potentially, a skyway app.

Neighborhood overview Boundaries: The main skyway system connects roughly 70 blocks of downtown Minneapolis, stretching from Target Field in the west to U.S. Bank Stadium in the east. The Minneapolis Convention Center is at the southern end of the network, and the skyway stops just one block short of the river to the north. Get involved: The Skyway Advisory Committee meets on an as-needed basis to review all plans for skyways before they go before they are granted city permits. It includes 17 voting members representing downtown property owners, businesses and residents and four city employees who serve in an advisory capacity. To learn more about the group, go to minneapolismn.gov/boards/downtown-skyway-advisory-comte.

A SKYWAY SHERPA Skyway My Way’s Mike Bleakmore co-created a skyway navigation tool

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com Type “Minneapolis skyway” into Google and the first hit isn’t the city’s convention and visitors bureau or Wikipedia or any of the flurry of recent news stories covering the debate over whether the network of second-floor walkways is a boon to downtown pedestrians or the bane of urban street life. The top search result is skywaymyway.com, an interactive map launched by Mike Bleakmore and Daine Billmark in the spring of 2010, when the two were coworkers at eBureau, a St. Cloud-based analytics firm with an office in downtown Minneapolis. The webpage includes a regularly updated directory of skyway-level shops, restaurants and attractions, historical information on many of the buildings linked to the downtown skyway network and a navigation tool that gives building-by-building directions to pedestrians. Bleakmore described Billmark, a web developer, as “the smarts behind the operation.” Bleakmore brought the skyway know-how. “I would go in the backdoors and back ways (of the skyway) and basically stay out of the cold, and he was always impressed with that,” Bleakmore said. But that didn’t help the two one wintry night when they were at the W Minneapolis hotel with their wives and planning a trip to the Capital Grille for dinner. The group was dressed for a night out, and they wanted to avoid stepping out into the cold. They asked for skyway directions, but no one at the hotel could help them. “So, we hopped in a cab and drove three blocks, or whatever it is, to the Capital Grille,” Bleakmore said. “We thought over dinner, this is really something where there ought to be an interactive skyway map.” The map they created offers this route from the W Hotel in Foshay Tower: cross to TCF Tower, cut through Baker Center, hang a left to IDS Center, cut across the Crystal Court to Macy’s, veer left into Highland Bank Court and soon you’ve arrived in LaSalle Plaza, home

to Capital Grille. He said the site gets about 25,000 unique visitors per month, but visits peak in the wintertime — along with skyway traffic. These days, about 60 percent of users access the site through their mobile phones, a significant shift in usage since the website launched. Bleakmore said GPS navigation is “notoriously difficult” at the skyway level. Signals ricochet off of tall downtown buildings, and the accuracy is not fine enough for turn-byturn navigation. They’ve pitched several possible technological solutions to the Skyway Advisory Committee, but they haven’t found a group willing to partner with Skyway My Way and make an investment. “I think the challenge of the skyways is that it’s a confederation of all these building owners, so there’s no one decision-maker,” Bleakmore said. “Certainly Skyway My Way is an existing resource, and they have aspirations about how their resource can be further enhanced,” said Steve Cramer, president and CEO of Minneap-

olis Downtown Council, who has met several times over the years with Bleakmore and Billmark, most recently in his capacity as chair of the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee’s Wayfinding Committee. Bleakmore sees both sides of the skyway debate. He’s in agreement with Skyway Avoidance Society founder Eric Dayton: Minneapolitans should “embrace” winter, not hide from it. “But I think the reality for downtown professionals is you need to go grab a lunch in half an hour and come back, and you’d rather not bring your mittens and hat and galoshes,” he said. “That’s just the reality, being a pragmatic Midwesterner. It’s there, and it’s really convenient.” Bleakmore now works at a new job in the suburbs and Billmark is based in St. Cloud, so neither of the skywaymyway.com founders are regularly using the skyway to grab lunch these days. When Bleakmore does find himself downtown, he often spends some time walking a section of the skyway to update his site’s business listings.

Mike Bleakmore takes advantage of the climate-controlled skyway system on a bright and blustery January day. Bleakmore created skywaymyway.com with a former coworker. Photo by Dylan Thomas

“It’s remarkable how much turnover there is,” he said. “That is the main challenge.” Another duty is responding to the roughly three calls per week, on average, that ring into a phone number posted on the “Contact” section of the website. “They think we’re the authority,” Bleakmore said.

Mike Bleakmore’s skyway top three The skywaymyway.com co-founder shared his three favorite sections of the downtown Minneapolis skyway network. ``1. Wells Fargo Center to Six Quebec This skyway, with a central section of colored glass panels, is the work of Twin Cities-based artist Siah Armajani, who also designed the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge connecting the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden to Loring Park. “That’s my favorite,” Bleakmore said. ``2. IDS Center When it opened in 1974, the IDS Center was the first downtown building with skyway connections in four directions. It remains a hub of the network. “The IDS, with its windows and skylights, is just a pleasure to walk through,” he said. ``3. Rand Tower Typical of the older sections in the network, the skyway connections to this 1929 skyscraper (added decades after it first opened) are narrower than other corridors in the network. But they still feel comfortable to walk through, Bleakmore said, adding that it might have something do with the building’s stunning Art Deco design.

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“I don’t think this is a matter of opinion anymore. The skyways are hurting retail in our city,” said Eric Dayton. Photo by Eric Best

FROM DAYTON / PAGE 1 Many called on Dayton and his family to buy the building, in part thanks to a Mpls. St.Paul Magazine piece, but he refused, taking to Twitter to say he would’ve gone through with it under one condition that many may say is impossible. “If you bring down the skyways, I’ll buy that building. I was serious. I really meant it. I kind of wanted to make a point with that,” he said. “Macy’s closing is kind of a another in a series of major closures, but the symbolism of that building and that store is powerful for people because of the Dayton’s connection. I hope people take this as a wake-up call. If we don’t like this trend — and it’s just a trend — it’s not going to reverse itself.” Less than a couple weeks later Dayton and his team were out on Nicollet Mall with clipboards getting office workers and downtown residents to join the group and avoid skyways. When members join, either online or at Askov Finlayson, they pledge to not use skyways “for the health and vitality” of Minneapolis, and for their own wellbeing. Membership does have its perks. Joining the Skyway Avoidance Society gets members a 10-percent discount on parkas at the store, though it’s Dayton’s hope that benefits expand to restaurants and other retailers. Dayton recently got Nicollet Mall’s Hubert White, a familyowned clothing store that’s been based in the Twin Cities for more than a century, to honor the discount on outerwear year-

round for card-carrying society members. There are also stickers, patches and other swag to show support. The idea for the society came to Dayton several years ago when he, like many of the society’s hundreds of members, worked downtown. Walking along Nicollet Mall, he said he observed the inequality of the system, which separated office workers and retail employees from homeless people. While they can be friendlier than a Minnesota winter, the skyways lead to perceived safety issues downtown and come with the cost of leaving downtown bereft of foot traffic, he added. “To me this whole [Skyway Avoidance Society] thing is: Let’s reframe the decision,” he said. “Would you trade the comfort of the skyways today for a healthy, vibrant Minneapolis year-round? If you just get people to realize the trade-off that we’re making and the price we’re paying for the comfort and convenience, I think

you’re going to start getting people who say ‘Maybe I’d make that trade.’” That price is only going to get greater in the future, Dayton said, as cities nationwide compete to bring in new residents and businesses. Skyways could hold Minneapolis back from competition by leaving retail struggling on two levels, something that few, if any, urban centers can maintain. “Having a desolate streetscape in the heart of our city is bad for Minneapolis. It’s a real problem. We want to remain competitive and become one of the cities that wins in the next 50 years, rather than being left behind,” he said. “That’s not to say it wasn’t the right thing to do 50 years ago when they were introduced. … Skyways were an experiment. We didn’t know what impact they were going to have. Now we have seen the impact. Just as there were a lot of compelling reasons to create the system then, there are a lot

I, the undersigned, hereby declare my commitment to avoid using the skyway system at all times and in all conditions. I am a proud resident of the North and believe that our seasons are to be celebrated. I make this pledge for the health and vitality of my city, and for my own wellbeing. — the pledge of the Skyway Avoidance Society

of compelling reasons now to consider dismantling it.” The solution for Dayton isn’t to tweak the system without at least discussing the possibility of taking them down first. The society is about building momentum toward a critical mass of downtown consumers and business owners putting pressure on property owners and landlords, he said. This could lead to private building owners, many of them based out of the metro, to not build additional connections and eventually phase out skyways in their buildings. The North Loop, the popular area of downtown where he also operates The Bachelor Farmer, a café and Marvel Bar, is evidence that skyways aren’t essential for thriving commerce downtown. “If this starts to become a chorus of voices, and now it’s some of the downtown businesses that are tenants of these landlords and they’re saying we want to see a change, suddenly it becomes a lot harder to ignore. And that’s I think how what was once was perceived as off the table and impossible is now on the table.” To get to that point, the first step is just to take Dayton’s pledge. “This is a grassroots effort. It’s the hundreds of people who have signed up who are now carrying their cards and hopefully, even on a day like today, sticking to their pledge and walking outside, and that’s the beginning.”

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HEIRLOOM DRY BEANS: HOW BEAN MARKET FARM IS PRESERVING THE HARVEST

ongsee Xiong and his wife Xai Lor are Hmong immigrants, practicing traditional farming at Bean Market Farm in Rosemont. Raised in a farming community in Laos, Tongsee came to the United States in 1971. In 1996, he began his own family farm. The Xiong family grows heirloom beans, squash blossoms, fenugreek, peanuts, strawberries and other seasonal produce using time-tested traditional methods on their rented land south of the Twin Cities. Tongsee and Xai are committed to the health of the land and the community and never use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. In addition to fruits and vegetables, Bean Market is widely known for selling beau-

tiful heirloom dried beans at the Mill City Farmers Market all year long. Even in the heart of winter when their fields are covered in snow, Tongsee and Xai bring a gorgeous variety of colorful, speckled dry beans and other winter storage crops to the Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor winter markets. Dry beans found in supermarkets and other grocery stores cannot compete with the freshness and quality of hand-harvested, locally grown beans, and preparing them is as easy as boiling water! You can find Bean Market Farm at the Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor winter market on January 14th and 28th from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St.

The beans at the grocery store can’t compete with hand-harvested, locally grown beans for freshness. Submitted photo

New to cooking with dry beans? It’s as simple as boiling water! Soak beans in water overnight. If you are short on time, skip the overnight soak and cover beans with water and bring to a boil, remove from heat and let soak for one hour. Next, drain the soaking water, put beans in a pot that can hold four times their volume and cover with fresh water (or broth) by three inches. Add salt, onions, garlic and other herbs if desired. Bring mixture to a boil and then reduce to simmer, partially covered, until beans are soft. Makes six large patties. Ingredients 3 cups fresh black, pinto or white beans, cooked, from Bean Market Farm (about 1 cup dry beans) 3/4 cup cooked brown rice or quinoa (leftover is fine) 2 green onions, finely diced 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 cup minced herbs (cilantro, parsley, or chives) 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon smoked (or regular) paprika 1 Tablespoon salt Cracked black pepper 2 Tablespoons ketchup, tomato paste or barbeque sauce Dash of hot sauce (I like Cholula) 1/2 cup grated cheddar or jack cheese 1 egg Cornmeal for dusting patties Oil for pan frying Method ` In a food processor, add the beans and pulse a couple times. Add the rice and pulse until combined and looks well mixed but still a bit chunky. Do not over-mix or your rice will get gluey! This step can also be done in a large bowl. Just mash the beans, then add rice and mash.

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` To form patties: Get a small bowl of water to keep your fingers wet. This will keep the patties from sticking to your hands. Form into 6 large or 12 small patties. Heat 3 Tablespoons of oil in a large sauté pan on medium heat. You may need more oil if frying in batches. ` Dust patties in cornmeal and shake off excess. Place into pan and cook for about 3 minutes each side. Resist the urge to keep flipping! Wait till you get a nice crust and then flip. Hold in warm oven if needed. ` Think of your flavor profile. (Want Mediterranean? Add feta, mint, and olives. Thinking Mexican? Add chopped chipotle pepper, cilantro, lime zest.) You see where I am going with this. Serve with sauce of your choice (I like mayo mixed with Cholula or barbeque sauce with grilled onions). ` For simple instructions for cooking with dry beans from our friends at Co+op, go to strongertogether.coop/recipes/simple-beans/.

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om, as usual, was right: Good things come in small packages. The new Bonicelli Kitchen is more like a family gathering than a restaurant, and that’s a good thing. The setting — could be your basic family room — is softly lit, further softened by gentle music. Its handful of tables are tightly packed — just enough room for Mama Laura to escape from the range long enough to wander among them with her super-sized, ‘mangia’ smile. Before that interval, waiters — who could sub for your favorite cousin — deliver complimentary dishes of nibbles: Spanish almonds; bouncy, homemade focaccia bites;

` Next, if using a processor, place mixture in a large bowl, add the rest of the ingredients except for the cornmeal. Use your hands to combine the mixture. This also helps the patties to hold together better. If you find your mixture seems to dry, add another egg. Place the mixture in the fridge, uncovered, for about 30 minutes. This will also help if your mix seems too wet. This can be done a day ahead; if so, cover your mix well.

also-homemade ricotta (comes for this alone and you’ll leave happy); chewy dates; and puckery little gherkins. On a recent visit, guests were offered a gratis splash of wine while glancing at the dozen-item menu of small plates ($6–$13). Bonicelli Kitchen evolved from Laura Bonicelli’s Northeast neighborhood fooddelivery business via a bricks-and-mortar kickstarter campaign. After endless payments of sweat equity, the trattoria at last opened, during one of our character-testing blizzards. Yet the place was packed. “What sounds good to you?” I queried my companions as we analyzed the offerings. “Everything,” they

counseled. (I choose my friends well.) So, we started at the top of the list with the beef, simmered in the sweet balsamic vinegar that enriched its sauce — so tender we could

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send our pristine knives back to the kitchen. It’s served with massively lumpy mashed potatoes (fine with me) pumped with horseradish, just as a Minnesota winter dictates. Next, a reminder of spring — Laura’s salade niçoise — the best in town, I promise. It’s composed, as if for a Dutch painter, of hardboiled egg and potato, skinny haricots verts, sweet little cherry tomatoes, peppy cured olives and a tangy toss of capers, plus, of course, tuna — Laura’s choice, a fine canned Spanish import — all arranged on frisky greens in the kitchen’s gentle dressing. With it we summoned some fries — hers, thick-cut crescents scented with savory Asiago cheese and served with a coral-tinted sambal mayo. Next, the Italian fare that lured us in the first place, starting with a slice of torta rustica incorporating layers of spinach, eggplant, sweet peppers and provolone encased in a pâte brisée (like piecrust made with butter), served with the family’s recipe for sweet, clean tomato sauce. Then the pasta Bolognese — that shredded beef in traditional red sauce served over house-made linguine so light and filmy I nabbed it before it could levitate. And, finally, the evenings’ winner: more homemade noodles, this time sauced in a bright, rich, come-hither lemon-cream sauce. We were tempted to place a second order for dessert. Instead, two sweets on offer ($6): a standard chocolate cake layered with cream cheese frosting — nothing special here — and a nice New York-style cheesecake — full-bodied but far from stodgy. Also, coffees from the espresso machine, backed by a dozen wines BTG and quartet of tap beers. And endlessly on tap —TLC by the gallon.

journalmpls.com / January 12–25, 2017 15 FROM HCLIB / PAGE 1 department in the past and is working with it on this project, city records manager Josh Schaffer said. The city has provided material, such as the building permit index cards and photos of redevelopment projects, as part of the effort. “A lot of it is really property-related records and photos,” Schaffer said, “but it’s kind of a catchall of everything we have that was potentially planning related.”

Items ‘live in perpetuity’ Included among the archives are photos from Minneapolis-based commercial photographer Jeff Grosscup, who shot pictures around the Twin Cities in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Grosscup contacted the library about storing his photos, adding that he wanted to make sure they would “live in perpetuity.” “It’s a great satisfaction to know that this body of work will outlive me by generations,” he said. Grosscup’s collection includes everything from photos of University of Minnesota athletics directors to photos of newborn quadruplets. One of his photographs, of the cardiovascular lab at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, was featured in a two-page spread in Time magazine. Another set captures the beginning and ending of a $300-million capital campaign at the University of Minnesota. “Not every image out there is profound,” he said, “but every image has something that someone someday may find useful.” The digital archives also include more than 800 photos of the African-American community in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the late ’40s, known as the John F. Glanton collection. Glanton worked for a few years as a professional photographer after serving in

Volunteer Brett Weber holds up a glass plate negative as he prepares to digitize it Dec. 28 at the Hennepin County Library. Photo by Nate Gotlieb the military during World War II, photographing everything from social events to church functions. His family members discovered the photos after his death in 2004 and facilitated their donation to the library. Glanton’s daughter, Joan Glanton, said she was surprised when she heard about the photos, noting that her dad was known more as an engineer and musician. The library and the family have hosted several events to identify people in the pictures. Joan Glanton said that’s helped

them learn about the backstories of some of the photos and the relationships between the African-American communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. “The photos really do capture the social life of African Americans living in the Twin Cities in the mid to late ’40s and early 1950s,” she said. The photos also have some currentevents value. Among the collection are two shots of the Prince Rogers Trio, a group that included the father of Prince.

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The City of Lakes Loppet Festival — a three-day celebration of winter sports — is returning to Minneapolis with a long weekend full of cross-country skiing, skating and more. On Friday, try catching the first of the speedskating races on Lake Calhoun, the 25-kilometer race at 4 p.m. On Saturday, the Loppet is hosting a snow sculpture contest sponsored by the Southwest Journal near the Lake Calhoun Center, a free competition that is open to groups of up to four. On Sunday morning, there will be a non-competitive Loppet Tour taking skaters between Theodore Wirth Regional Park and the Loppet Village in Uptown.

While the St. Paul Winter Carnival has been bringing people together around winter for more than a century, this year the festival joins the Great Northern, which partners the St. Paul celebration with seasonal Minneapolis events. The festivities kick off with lighting of downtown St. Paul with the Moon Glow Pedestrian Parade on Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. During the first weekend, the Securian Winter Run will have runners on three different races — a half marathon, 10K and 5K — on Saturday, Jan. 28. And don’t forget about a fairly new tradition, the Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival, set to take place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on Feb. 4 at 2:30 p.m. Minnesota’s biggest outdoor beer festival will feature more than 120 breweries, live music and gourmet food.

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U.S. Pond Hockey Championships You know you’re in Minnesota when you’ve donned ice skates to play hockey on a frozen pond. The U.S. Pond Hockey Championships has drawn thousands of players and spectators to Lake Nokomis each year for more than a decade. While it’s likely too late to register as one of 250 or so teams vying for the Golden Shovel this year, the championships are something every Minnesotan needs to experience — and it’s open to free agents if you still really want to play. Spectators can watch games and take advantage of open rinks and other events beginning Thursday, Jan. 26 and running through Sunday, Jan. 29.

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The past few years haven’t always been kind to Doomtree rapper P.O.S., who is set to release his next solo album this month, four years after “We Don’t Even Live Here.” P.O.S., or Stefon Alexander, made headlines in 2012 when he had to cancel touring on the album due to complications with chronic kidney disease and then again for successfully crowdfunding a new organ. And now, with a new album dubbed “Chill, dummy” under his belt, the veteran rapper is ready to make up for lost time.

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Over the past year, the Minneapolis-based rapper has released several singles from the album, chief among them the rapper’s triumphant return to music with the nearly nine-minute “sleepdrone/superposition.” The track feels impossibly huge, like a miniature album on its own, with an array of voices, including Alexander’s son Hard_r, Kathleen Hanna, Lizzo, Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, Lydia Liza and Nicholas L. Perez. On the song P.O.S. finds willpower despite witnessing and experiencing sickness, inhumanity and institutionalized racism. “I be clutching my stomach/But this, this here is nothing,” he raps. In less than two minutes on “Lanes,” another track from the album, P.O.S. brings together his punkinfluenced singing with rapping over an infectious beat with static and ambience. On “Wearing A Bear,” in which P.O.S. draws inspiration from Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from “The Revenant,” the rapper name checks the guy whose kidney is now inside him, his favorite podcasters and his sons. It’s clear from these singles that “Chill, dummy” will begin an exciting chapter in the Minneapolis rapper’s discography. P.O.S. will release the album on Friday, Jan. 27, the same day of his album release show at First Avenue at 8 p.m. Locals Lady Midnight, J. Plaza, Dwynell Roland and Ander Other are also set to perform.

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Nestled above the former Ling & Louie’s space is a game for families, coworkers or even strangers. Escape the Room offers groups several different puzzle-laden rooms to, well, escape from. Similar to the puzzle rooms gaining popularity nationwide, the game begins with being locked in one of three themed rooms, including The Dig, said to combine Indiana Jones movies with “The Da Vinci Code,” the James Bond-esque Agency and The Apartment, which looks like a typical Minneapolis home. You and your group have one hour to escape, which will entail finding and solving puzzles, digging through the set and getting clues from staff. I got try out The Apartment recently and was pleasantly surprised how fun escaping the room was. If you’re new to this kind of game, some can be really diﬃcult, but this version was just hard enough for us to make it out of the room with just 20 seconds left. While reservations aren’t required, it’s best to get together a group and then book the entire room instead of playing with a mix of strangers.

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Red Cow now has a sister in the North Loop’s Red Rabbit, and it offers one happy hour that’s not to be missed. While it’s quite a change from the American menu at Red Cow, restaurateur Luke Shimp’s Italian menu of pizza and pasta is a welcome addition to the neighborhood. The happy hours, both from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. and from 10 p.m.–close, offer a decent discount on appetizers, including a number of shareable grilled toasts and several scratch pizzas. The winner for me was the burrata, which is served with tomatoes, broccoli pesto and lemoninfused greens and is a great pairing for the pizza. And the pizza is good, not to mention plenty affordable on the happy hour menu. Chili honey and ricotta cheese elevate the spicy salami pizza, which has a thin yet crunchy crust. For dessert, Red Rabbit has several options, even three affogatos, which traditionally combine ice cream and espresso. At this restaurant there are other options, including one served with house limoncello and another with amaro or house pineapplecello. There’s also a lot to be said about the restaurant’s bar program. One trip doesn’t scratch the surface of Red Rabbit’s 44-page book of cocktails, but I’d recommend not glossing over the aperitif menu if you’re in the mood for something light.

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I’m divorced but both my ex and I are remarried. We share 50-50 custody of our 8-year-old daughter. My struggle is with my ex-husband’s wife. I feel like I could embrace her as a friend, to help make it smoother for my child, but she’s still icy and stand oﬃsh although I’ve known her for years. My daughter has said things that make me think she has noticed the tension. How can I help make something better for my child when I’m not able to control this other person who has signiﬁcance in her life?

ou and your ex-husband have moved on with your lives and married other people, letting the past be a distant memory with each passing day. If only it were that simple. Some doors have closed but some doors are opening — including the one that leads to new people entering your daughter’s life at the choosing of your ex. No doubt when children and co-parenting are involved you cannot simply say sayonara to a past spouse. My hunch is there are lingering tensions in your relationship with your ex-husband. Subsequently, his new wife senses this and feels threatened by you. She may also be reacting to what he says about you (especially if things did not end so amicably) or the way he’s still emotionally influenced by you

(especially if he struggles with aspects of the custody arrangement). Let’s face it: It is common for new spouses to feel competition, jealousy or in the very least comparison to the previous spouse. It may be hard for her to accept the shared history you had with her husband and even more difficult to accept the child you will always share together. Alternately, her behavior could have very little to do with you; she might simply be shy or closed off to most people. What you have the most influence over is what you model for your daughter. Display an attitude of friendliness and compassion whenever she talks about her stepmom or sees you interacting together. Ideally, your kind actions towards her stepmom could grow sincere — the “fake it until you make it” strategy. One need not be a parent to choose integrity and take the high road in these types of scenarios. In other words, model this for your daughter but also because

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it is what enlightened adults do. Do not avoid this woman, but you also don’t need to go out of your way to interact with her. Ultimately, it would be a good idea for your child to see you all together on occasion. Otherwise events in the future (graduations, weddings and so forth) will be more awkward in a way that confuses your daughter or sends a message that the important adults in her life can’t seem to get along. Letting go of control in our lives will always be a challenge. Especially when something as precious as your child is involved. But the alternative, which comes in the form

of grasping, ruminating or other methods that only harm yourself, are exhausting and rarely change the outcome. So look at where you can surrender. There will be many people who influence your daughter’s life. Fortunately, as her mother you reign supreme and will be able to mold her more than anyone else.

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Hawthorne Trans Center

CHESTNUT AVE

33 N. 9th Street

$130.00 per month $9.00 per day* LINDEN AVE $7.00 Early Bird 394 NN

11th & Harmon Ramp

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Xcel Energy

LAUREL AVE Mpls Comm Tech Coll Ramp

25 S. 11th Street

$185.00 per month $9.75 per day*

Mpls Comm mm Tech Coll

HAWTHORNE AVE

Xcel Energy

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Xcel Energy

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OAK LAKE AVE

NOT NEAR A RAMP?

394 HOV LN

3RD AVE N

Basilica School

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Milleniu m Hotel

Hilton Garden Inn

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16TH ST E

10 TH AV ES

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S per month $150.00 $11.00 per day* $9.00 Early Bird

Central Lutheran Church

11 TH AV ES

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Basilica of St Mary

Mpls Comm Tech Coll

Hyatt Regency Hotel

GRANT ST E Wesley

Church Plaza Municipal Ramp

117 12th Street S. Minneapolis Convention Center

16TH ST E

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LAUREL AVE

DUNWOODY

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14TH ST E $140.00 per month Music M usic Box Box x $17.00 per day* Theate er Theater

15TH ST E

16TH ST E

10TH AVE S

DUNWOODY BLVD DUNWOODY BLVD

Loring Park

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ELLIOT AVE

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CHICAGO AVE

727 Vineland Place

Cathedral of St Mark

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15TH ST N

Sh a

WILLOW ST

EAST LYNDALE AVE N

$55.00 per month VINELAND PL $4.00 per day*

Vineland Ramp

Walker Art Center

ON IFT CL

15TH ST N

LAKESIDE AVE

17TH ST N

Vineland Place Ramp

LYNDALE AVE S

ALDRICH AVE N ALDRICH AVE N

BRYANT AVE N

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11TH ST N Emerson School

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