May 19, 2016 by The Journal

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WASTE WATCHDOGS County launches garbage study to find ways to increase recycling

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com As a massive pile of garbage loomed in the background, crews picked through the trash at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) in the North Loop as part of a new pilot project designed to study residents’ habits in hopes of finding ways to increase recycling. It’s a smelly job, but hopefully an illuminating one.

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z Workers sort through trash at the HERC on May 12 as part of new Hennepin County pilot project. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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Local restaurants are bringing their own flair to skyway dining

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com When Tiffany Hauser wanted to expand her food truck concept she looked up. The Green + The Grain owner and partner Dustin Naugle brought their food truck to the skyway last summer with a brick-and-mortar restaurant in LaSalle Plaza. Around noon on weekdays the chopped salad and wrap concept boasts a line out the door and often into the neighboring building. Now, capitalizing on the success, Hauser has expanded once more. A second Green + The Grain opened quietly in early May right across from Vellee Deli and Turkey to Go, both food trucksturned-skyway spots, in the Baker Center. Despite the growth of national salad and

Chicago-based Naf Naf Grill opened a restaurant in US Bank Plaza last summer. Photo by Eric Best

health food chains into downtown, the independent local restaurant has garnered a dedicated workforce following in the skyway.

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City’s proposed paid sick time ordinance unveiled By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com The City Council is scheduled to take a final vote on a proposed ordinance mandating paid sick time for employers with at least six Minneapolis workers Friday, May 27. A public hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, May 18 at 3 p.m. before the Council’s Committee of the Whole after this edition went to press. The proposed ordinance largely follows recommendations of a city-appointed Workplace Partnership Group tasked with studying paid sick time policies that delivered a report to the Council in March. The group had advised the Council to adopt an ordinance that would apply to companies with at least four workers. An estimated 42 percent of Minneapolis workers lack access to paid time off when they become ill — more than 100,000 people — and they are disproportionately people of color and women. The proposed ordinance would cover employees who work at least 80 hours in Minneapolis a year. It would not cover employees who have federal, state or county government jobs since Minneapolis doesn’t have jurisdiction over those agencies. It also exempts independent contractors, construction workers paid prevailing wages and health care providers who are casual employees. Workers covered by the ordinance could accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked up to a maximum of 48 hours in one year. The sick time could also be used to care for a family member who is ill,

for preventative health care or because of domestic abuse, a sexual assault or stalking incident. Companies that have paid time off policies that meet the minimum requirements outlined in the ordinance are not required to provide additional sick days. It would take effect July 1, 2017 to give the city enough time to educate employers about the ordinance. Ron Harris, a community organizer with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, joined other advocates of the sick time plan in lobbying for its passage before the Council met to review the proposal. He served on the Workplace Partnership Group. “We want the strongest possible policy for the most amount of people as soon as possible,” Harris said. He said his mother lost her job while caring for him when he faced a life-threatening case of pneumonia as an infant. “I’m of the firm opinion that nobody should ever lose their job or ever miss a paycheck for taking care of their sick kid or a sick family member,” he said. “I’m hopeful that once this ordinance is passed that’s going to be a reality for every worker in the city.” Mayor Betsy Hodges praised the proposed ordinance. She advocated for it during her State of the City Address more than a year ago. “I am very pleased that earned sick and safe time for Minneapolis workers is one step closer to reality after I first proposed it a year ago,” she said. “I proposed it because in Minneapolis, people should never have to

Ron Harris, a community organizer with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, discusses his support for the proposed sick time ordinance May 5 at City Hall. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

choose between caring for themselves or their family members and going to work — no one should every have to choose between being sick and being paid.” Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer and John Stanoch, interim president of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, released a statement critical of the proposal. They serve as co-chairs of the Workforce Fairness Coalition, a group of businesses opposed to a paid sick time mandate. “The proposed sick and safe leave ordinance provides a one-size-fits-all solution to a complex challenge that impacts thousands of employers and tens of thousands of employees of not only Minneapolis businesses, but businesses located outside the city,” Stancoch said. Cramer said the coalition favors a “commu-

nity partnership” approach that focuses on encouraging companies to adopt paid sick time policies. He also said he was concerned about how quickly the Council will be voting on the ordinance. “We know how much Minneapolis can accomplish when we work together, as we have seen when addressing other issues, most recently the creation of the Clean Energy Partnership as an alternative to a City Hall takeover of private utilities,” Cramer said. “In the weeks ahead we hope our elected leaders will keep an open mind as they hear input on this important topic.” Five states, 23 cities and one county in the U.S. have paid sick time laws, according to the latest update from A Better Balance, a New York-based organization.

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Rather than “Triple Espresso,” it’s been church services filling up the seats at the Music Box Theater this year. Wooddale Church has leased the nearly century-old theater near the Minneapolis Convention Center from its longtime owner with the hope of building a community-focused church. The multi-denominational Christian church, which operates campuses in Edina and Eden Prairie, moved into the 440-capacity landmark in January. The theater had been listed for sale late last year for just under $2 million. Trent Palmberg, the new location’s campus pastor, told The Journal that Wooddale moved to Loring Park in part because they already had members living here. With a growing congregation of just under 200, Palmberg, who also sits on the neighborhood group’s board, hopes the church is just as multi-generational and multicultural as the Loring Park neighborhood. “This isn’t like a destination for them, this is their home,” he said. “We really try to contextualize to fit the neighborhood. At the very core we’re trying to be great neighbors.” Wooddale also uses the theater for offices and a performance space for church services, presentations and events. On Sundays, its more contemporary-style services incorporate concerts and reli-

gious music from guest artists and other performers. After moving in, Wooddale even invested into the building’s café area, lighting and sound systems. Shuree Rivera, a recording artist who coordinated artistic programming in Chicago churches before moving to Loring Park, is managing Wooddale’s new performance space. She said the theater will be open to artists, business groups and others who need a stage, Christian or otherwise. “Yes, we are a church, and, yes, we do church in there … but the community hasn’t lost a space, they’ve gained a space. We’re investing in that space continually and constantly to make it a place where people can enjoy it together,” Rivera said. So far Wooddale has hosted free movie nights open to the public, food trucks and will be partnering with Hope Academy, a private Christian school in south Minneapolis, with other events. Palmberg said the venue will host a simulcast of the Global Leadership Summit in August. The nearly 16,000-square-foot theater at 1407 Nicollet Ave. S. is most known as the birthplace of “Triple Espresso,” a comedy that started in 1995 and returned to the Music Box for several years during the holiday season. For information about Wooddale Church, visit wooddale.org.

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A century-old machine storage building is set to open as an event center this summer. Photo courtesy of Bodege Ltd.

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For many soon-to-wed couples, the Stone Arch Bridge area is a hotspot for photos. Now an event center is breathing life into a nearby Pillsbury machine shop building just steps from the Marcy-Holmes riverfront. The Historic Machine Shop is opening this summer in a 1916 building that for decades housed mill machinery, cars and even pedal pubs. Now the 18,000-square-foot space already has events lined up in July. Stephanie Guidera, the center’s director of sales and marketing, said they’re looking to host everything from business meetings to fashion shows — and especially weddings, given high demand for venues. “The wedding market is huge right now in Minneapolis,” she said. “Everyone wants a Stone Arch Bridge picture and that’s five minutes away.” The Historic Machine Shop, owned by a few partners, features two floors centered around an open atrium space. Due to its historic use the high-end venue still has some original brick walls and flooring,

along with a few machines, including an orange crane (one client will have aerialists performing off of it, Guidera said). The space features three mobile bars, dressing rooms, a sound system, colored lighting and luxury bathroom finishes. “We have a few things that are going to be our aesthetic or our focal points,” said Marguerite Mingus, an office manager with the Machine Shop. “If you want to bring in a million other things you absolutely can, but we’re trying to make it so that you don’t have to,” Guidera added. The venue’s rates, which vary by day, are inclusive of furniture, security, bars and bar staff. They are still finalizing a list of caterers, Guidera said, and there’s talk of opening the space for restaurant dining, even if it’s just temporarily open. The Historic Machine Shop opens July 1 at 300 2nd St. NE in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood. For more information visit machineshopmpls.com.

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Farmers market roundup

With the warm weather now in full swing, farmers markets are kicking off around Minneapolis. The Mill City Farmers Market opened for a new season on May 7 with new vendors, local food and family events. This season the Mill District market will expand to the other side of 2nd Street on Chicago Avenue for 11 weeks later this summer with new vendors like the Food Building, Serious Jam, Sift Gluten Free Bakery, The Twisted Shrub and Bee Brews. Another few vendors have already joined the market. Abrothecary, owned by chef and butcher Andrew Ikeda, offers frozen and ready-to-eat bone broths and soups. Cosmic Wheel Creamery sells aged and fresh farmstead cheeses from Clear Lake, Wisc. Heritage Breads, which is a part of the winter market, will continue offering its bread made from Sunrise Flour Mill grains. The market operates on Saturdays from 8 a.m.–1 p.m., May through October. In downtown Minneapolis, the Nicollet Mall Farmers Market kicked off May 5 on the Hennepin County Government Center’s South Plaza at 300 S. 6th St. The market, which is originally hosted on Thursdays on Nicollet Mall, moved to Hennepin Avenue last year due to reconstruction work on Nicollet. The farmers market

will be open on Thursdays from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. through Nov. 10. The Capella Tower is hosting its own farmers market in the tower’s renovated atrium space. The market will kick off June 1 and will run on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. until Oct. 26. Across the Mississippi River, Riverplace will host a new farmers and artisan market this season that is set to open Wednesday, June 1. The market, located in the building’s cobblestone courtyard near Hennepin & Main Street, will run on Wednesdays from 3-7 p.m. through the end of September. A few of the market’s vendors include The Twisted Shrub, HeathGlen Farms, Ames Farm, Red Table Meats, Vital Kneads and Minnesota Nice Spice. In Northeast Minneapolis, the Northeast Farmers Market opens Saturday, May 21 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the St. Boniface Church parking lot at University & 7th. The market hosts live music, children’s activities and food trucks every Saturday through Oct. 22. Another Northeast Farmers Market at The Grain Belt begins on Thursday, June 9. More than a dozen vendors will be selling fresh produce, local art and other specialty foods at 1215 Marshall St. NE on Thursdays from 4:30-7:30 p.m. until Aug. 25.

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Locally branded clothing company MPLS/STP Clothing Co. recently announced its plan to relocate to the former RyKrisp building that’s now home to Woodchuck USA. The company, known for its Minnesotathemed T-shirts and apparel, has been in the Thorp building since last summer. Owners Katie Olson and Clint McMahon said in social media posts that they’ve outgrown the space and will be moving into the building, which Ben VandenWylemenberg, founder of woodworking company Woodchuck USA, and partners recently purchased and renamed the North Co. building. MPLS/STP Clothing Co. officially moved to the building at 610 SE 9th St. in the MarcyHolmes neighborhood in mid-May. While the company is focused on online shopping, the Thorp location was open a few hours each week for customers. “Our T-shirt passion started as a pastime

and turned into a small business with a small team — and now a big studio. It wouldn’t be possible without you,” the company said. The company will join the building’s main tenant, Woodchuck, which moved to the building from its previous home a few blocks down 9th Street. CEO VandenWylemenberg told The Journal last year that he envisioned the new 80,000-square-foot North Co. building, formerly the world’s only RyKrisp plant, as a co-working space for up-and-coming brands and American maker companies. Hector Cortes, who previously handled marketing for Woodchuck, now runs video production company Hecco in the building. A spokeswoman with Woodchuck said North Co. is also home to social media marketing firm The Social Lights, Great Lakes Clothing Co., hair stylist Whitney Vermeer, NeuroTinker and advertising firm Backboard Group.

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Volume 47, Issue 10

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City finalizes short-term operations plan for Commons park The City Council approved an agreement May 13 with the Downtown Improvement District (DID) to operate the Downtown East Commons park on an interim basis until a long-term plan for the park is finalized. The city will pay the DID $600,000 to temporarily oversee park operations through the end of 2016 until a longer term contract can be finalized with Green Minneapolis, the nonprofit parks conservancy spearheading fundraising for the park that will eventually oversee its operations. The $600,000 paid to the DID will come from private fundraising dollars, said City Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3) during an update on the project at the Council’s Ways & Means Committee on May 9. The park is set to open this summer but a grand opening date hasn’t been determined because final construction is weather dependent, said Miles Mercer, manager of business development for the city. Under the agreement, the DID will oversee cleaning, maintenance, coordination of activities and the development of safety protocols, among other things, for the 4.2-acre park next to the new Vikings stadium.

The Council also approved directing $250,000 from the city’s Capital Improvement Fund and accepting charitable gifts from Green Minneapolis for the park. City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) asked several questions about the Commons’ budget and raised concerns about the lack of certainty of a long-term funding plan for the park during the Ways & Means meeting. Future operating and maintenance costs for the Commons are estimated at about $1.25 million a year. “Right now we know what the plan is for 2016 and there’s a lot to figure out for 2017 in terms of what is the right size budget given what we think are going to be the likely revenue sources,” Mercer said. Green Minneapolis has raised nearly $14 million for the Commons — more than half of the $22 million goal for the park. Park planners have also been looking at ways to generate revenue at the park, including renting out park buildings or opening a restaurant. The city has issued $18.8 million in bonds for the Commons. Ryan Cos., the developer working on the new Wells Fargo Downtown

East office towers, has agreed to pay the debt service on the bonds for 10 years and then parking revenue from nearby ramps will cover the remainder. Frey said the amount of annual tax revenue that the area has generated as a result of the park far exceeds the city’s investment in the park. “It’s tens and tens of millions of dollars that we’re getting on an annual basis from this area,” he said. As for the use agreement with the Vikings for the park, Mercer said the park will always be available to the public. While there will be days when the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) and Vikings have “use rights,” the public will still be able to access the park, he said. The MSFA also has a lease to use the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s parking lot for game day festivities to limit its presence in the park. Frey said the agreement with the Vikings means that the team can’t “rope off ” or charge a fee to access the park during game days. “Literally anybody can participate,” he said.

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City Council gives green light to proposed I-35W improvements The City Council granted municipal consent May 13 for a series of major construction projects on I-35W, including adding a new bus rapid transit (BRT) station in the median of the freeway at Lake Street for the proposed Orange Line linking Burnsville with downtown Minneapolis. In addition to the transit station, the $150.2 million I-35W Transit/Access Project includes a new bicycle/pedestrian connection to the Midtown Greenway, a new southbound exit ramp to Lake Street and a new northbound exit ramp to 28th Street. Other major work lined up for the corridor includes the replacement of the I-35W “braid” and “flyover” bridges connecting northbound I-35W to I-94 westbound. MnDOT is also planning to replace pavement on I-35W between 42nd and 32nd streets, replace the 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge and rehab the 38th Street bridge. The budget total for the massive constructive work is roughly $345 million. Project planners are trying to secure the remainder of funding needed before the 2016 legislative

session wraps up May 23. The goal is to condense the construction schedule to four years to minimize the headaches for neighbors of the project and commuters. The improvements planned for I-35W are many years in the making. The City Council passed a “reboot resolution” in 2007 to ensure the corridor would place a priority on transit. At a public hearing before the Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee, Michael Wilson, a member of the Midtown Greenway Coalition’s board of director, said he’s excited to see all of the work moving forward, but called for improvements for the Lake Street transit station area under the freeway. He said he feared the city will have another example of “Minneapolis dreary” if project planners fail to come up with a better plan for the area. Hennepin County engineer Jim Grube told Council members that there’s still time to make design improvements to the station area to address community concerns.

Three Minneapolis sites proposed for Superfund list The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has proposed adding three polluted sites in Minneapolis to the state’s Superfund list. The sites include a former dry cleaning operation at 55th Street & Lyndale Avenue South; a former plating facility at 19th Avenue Northeast & Monroe Street Northeast; and a vapor intrusion area at 2010 E. Hennepin Ave. Overall, the MPCA has proposed adding 10 new sites to the Superfund priorities list — nine are in the Twin Cities and one is in Cloquet. The sites have “known risks to human health or the environment,” according to

the MPCA. The public can comment on the proposed additions to the Superfund list by June 10 and the MPCA Remediation Division will make a presentation on the sites May 24 in St. Paul. When a site is placed on the state’s Superfund Permanent List of Priorities it becomes available for funding to investigate and cleanup the pollutants. The 55th & Lyndale site is home to two properties that include a former dry cleaning business. In 2012, the MPCA investigated the site for sources of perchloroethylen (a chemical used in dry cleaning) and tested for underground soil vapor. In subsequent investi-

gations the MPCA determined it was possible that there was vapor intrusion in nearby homes and businesses. The MPCA is working on installing vapor intrusion mitigation systems for five homes and four additional homes might get the systems. Vapor intrusion happens when chemicals seep from contaminated groundwater through the soil into buildings, according to the MPCA. Long-term exposure to perchloroethylen (aka PERC or PCE) can cause cognitive impairments and harm the liver, kidney and immune system. The 19th & Monroe site in Northeast

was formerly home to Universal Plating, a chemical and mechanical plating facility that closed in 2009. Several metals and chlorinated solvents were discovered in the site’s soils in 2012, including arsenic and lead. The MPCA continues to investigate the environmental impact on nearby homes. The Southeast Minneapolis site has groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent and degreaser. To comment on the proposed additions to the Superfund list or learn more about the sites, go to pca.state.mn.us/waste/superfundprogram.

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Park Board breaks ground on Sculpture Garden overhaul Leaders from the Park Board and Walker Art Center broke ground on an overhaul of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden during a ceremony May 10. The $10 million project will completely rebuild the Sculpture Garden with more accessible walkways, a new bathroom building and meadow-like lawn to improve drainage. The 11-acre Sculpture Garden, whose land and infrastructure are owned by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, will reopen next June. Over the past year the Walker has removed nearly all of the 40 or so works in the Sculpture Garden, though some have been on display in Gold Medal Park, the Weisman Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. “The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is one of the best public spaces in America and a prime example of the potential of innovative,

collaborative partnerships,” said Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller in a statement. The Park Board is funding the work through $8.5 million of state bonding funds and $1.5 million from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization for stormwater management work. The Walker announced earlier this year that it will add 16 new pieces to its redevelopment campus, including “Hahn/Cock,” a 15.5-foot-tall blue chicken sculpture, by German sculptor Katharina Fritsch and an iconic “LOVE” sculpture of the word by Robert Indiana. Due to construction, the Current moved Rock the Garden, its annual music festival at the Walker, to Boom Island in Northeast Minneapolis. The Walker and the local arts community also mourned the loss of former Walker director Martin Friedman, who passed away

Walker Art Center and Park Board leaders broke ground on a $10 million redo of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

May 9, at age 90. At the helm of the art center, Friedman developed the Sculpture Garden and commissioned its most iconic work, “Spoonbridge and Cherry.” “As we celebrate the life and contribution of longtime Walker director Martin Friedman, the timing of this ground breaking is particu-

larly poignant,” said Olga Viso, the Walker’s executive director. “We’re thrilled to open the next chapter of the Garden with new artworks by some of today’s most significant artists to be shared with the Twin Cities community and visitors from around the world.”

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The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is partnering with City of Skate to improve its skate parks. Commissioners approved an agreement May 4 with the local nonprofit skate park advocacy organization that formally outlines a collaborative effort to develop bigger and better skate parks. COS, a Twin Cities-based coalition of skateboarders and parents, will also be the board’s primary philanthropic partner in fundraising for new skate parks and improvements to the city’s six existing skate parks. The Park Board has outlined plans for two more skate parks in recent master plans. The board plans to add a skate park to Nokomis-Hiawatha Regional Park near the Lake Nokomis Community Center, a project that is estimated to cost $500,000. Northeast Athletic Field Park could get a

Park commissioners are making progress in passing a 20-year plan to maintain the city’s neighborhood parks. Commissioners voted 8-0 May 4 to approve an ordinance that would provide an additional $11 million annually for neighborhood parks’ capital needs and operations. The plan is part of an $800 million agreement with the city that would also dedicate $22 million per year in new money for street repairs. The full Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is expected to approve the plan May 18. The agreement addresses a projected $15 million annual funding gap for capital needs in neighborhood parks and an estimated $30 million annual funding gap for street repairs and reconstruction projects. It would be funded through a variety

destination skate park near Jim Lupient Water Park at a cost of $900,000-$1.2 million. The board built six skate parks in Armatage, Bottineau, Brackett, Creekview, Elliot and Morris parks between 2002 and 2004, one in each park district. Park staff expect to present a draft of a Skate Park Activity Plan to the board for approval by the end of the year. The plan would articulate capital needs, maintenance guidelines and design standards to meet the city’s need for skate parks. “City of Skate looks forward to this partnership with the MPRB to establish worldclass quality skate parks that will serve the youth and communities of Minneapolis,” said Paul Forsline, City of Skate president, in a statement.

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Biking down in 2015 survey Poor weather is likely to blame for an 11-percent drop in the number of bicyclists spotted during an annual survey, the authors of the 2015 Minneapolis Bicycle and Pedestrian Count report. If cool temperatures and rain threw off the 2015 survey, though, they couldn’t erase the long-term positive trends for both bicycling and walking in Minneapolis. At certain benchmark locations included in all nine annual counts since 2007, the number of bicyclists has gone up 53 percent and the number of pedestrians counted has risen 23 percent. And while bicyclists’ numbers were down during the most recent survey, the number of walkers counted inched up slightly to its highest-ever recorded level. The city conducts the survey every

September with the help of dozens of volunteers. Those volunteer counters are stationed along commuter corridors, and they count all the bicyclists and pedestrians who pass by between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. during the evening rush hour. Daily traffic estimates are extrapolated from the two-hour surveys. The annual counts began after the Twin Cities became one of four regions across the country awarded $25 million by the Federal Highway Administration to improve rates of bicycling and walking through the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program. That program was administered locally by Bike Walk Twin Cities, which also collaborated with the city on pedestrian and bicyclist surveys. The city took over the project after the pilot program ended in 2013.

As usual, the survey found the heaviest bicycle and pedestrian traffic concentrated around the University of Minnesota campus. An estimated 7,370 cyclists cross the Washington Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River daily. Fifteenth Avenue Southeast north of 5th Street Southeast handles the secondheaviest load of bicycle traffic, followed by 15th Avenue Southeast north of University Avenue; the Midtown Greenway east of Cedar Avenue; and Washington Avenue west of Union Street Southeast. Washington & Union was the busiest pedestrian area in 2015, with an estimated 20,350 people passing through on foot daily. Results of all the bicycle and pedestrian counts conducted since 2007 can be found at minneapolismn.gov/bicycles.

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FINAL SWLRT ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT RELEASED Project nears groundbreaking with publication of Final Environmental Impact Statement

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com The Federal Transit Administration released a long-awaited document examining the Southwest Light Rail Transit project’s potential environmental impact May 13. Publication of the final environmental impact statement, or FEIS, is one of the last remaining hurdles for Metropolitan Council before the agency can begin construction on the $1.79-billion light rail line. SWLRT will extend the Green Line connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul another 14-and-ahalf miles to Eden Prairie. But it’s not the only hurdle, and maybe not even the tallest. At the state capitol, legislators have only until May 23 to come up with a plan to cover the state’s remaining $135-million share in the project, and there appears to be a significant gap remaining between Democratic and Republican transportation priorities. If the current session adjourns without a plan, the Met Council has warned, it could put in jeopardy the $895 million in federal funding expected to pay for half of the state’s largest-ever transportation project. Meanwhile, Lakes and Parks Alliance of Minneapolis, a citizens’ group

representing residents who live close to SWLRT’s planned route through the city, is suing Met Council in federal court. The group aims to halt the project, arguing Met Council leap-frogged required environmental steps when it settled on a route that slices through Minneapolis’ Kenilworth Corridor. The Met Council’s SWLRT website was overwhelmed by attempts to download the 17,000-page FEIS on May 13. Physical copies of the report are also available at Minneapolis City Hall, Minneapolis Central Library, Walker Public Library, Linden Hills Public Library, Sumner Public Library, Franklin Public Library and at various public buildings in other cities along the route. A draft EIS was originally released in 2012 and then updated in 2015 to include a supplemental EIS after several changes to the plan for SWLRT, including co-location of freight and light rail in the Kenilworth Corridor. The final EIS reflects even more changes made by project planners in response to the nearly 1,200 comments submitted by residents and local governments in response to the previous environmental reports.

For the Kenilworth Corridor, where trains will dive into a half-mile tunnel below freight tracks and an existing bicycle and pedestrian trail, Met Council planners have proposed new steps to mitigate vibrations from passing trains. The narrow corridor is hemmed in on its south end by condominiums and townhomes — some with foundations just feet from the planned tunnel — and residents who have experienced already damage from piledriving at a nearby construction site have raised concerns about how the trains will impact both their quality of life and the structural integrity of their homes. According to the Met Council, vibrations will be minimized with the use of “resilient track fasteners.” Part of the FEIS is a review of its potential impact on historic sites and areas under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. SWLRT was found to have an adverse impact on the Grand Rounds Historic District, both in the form of noise and visual impacts to the channel linking Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, which light rail trains will cross on a new bridge. Met Council proposes to mitigate the noise impacts through sound-dampening

measures, including rail dampers and a parapet wall on the bridge. It also plans to work with the Minnesota Historic Preservation Office to design the bridge with elements from other historic bridges in the Grand Rounds. The FEIS also includes the financing plan for the project, a history of all the alternatives to the current route considered by Met Council and both the previously submitted comments and responses to those comments by Met Council planners. Publication of the FEIS kicks off a 31-day public comment period. Comments can be submitted to Met Council through June 13. Release of the FEIS isn’t, however, the final step in the environmental review process. Before Met Council can apply to receive the federal funding that is expected to cover half of construction costs, it must get a sign-off from both the state and the FTA. Those will come only after comments on the FEIS have been reviewed, in the form of a Minnesota State Adequacy Determination and a Federal Record of Decision. To download a copy of the FEIS, go to metropolitancouncil.org/swlrt/feis.

12 journalmpls.com / May 19–June 1, 2016 FROM GARBAGE STUDY / PAGE 1 Samples from garbage collected from a cross-section of Minneapolis hauled to the HERC are sorted into more than 50 categories, said Ben Knudson, a county recycling specialist, during a recent tour of the garbage burner. The study will examine trends in different neighborhoods to help improve recycling education and hopefully divert more items from the waste stream. As part of a second sort, the county is analyzing waste by retail categories — trying to determine where the garbage would be found in a store like Target. “Part of that is to learn more about where the waste is created and learn more about consumer habits — where people are buying it,” he said. “People do a pretty good job of recycling items in the kitchen. We find that sometimes people forget about the laundry room, the bathroom and things coming out of the garage.” Hennepin County’s recycling rate was 43 percent in 2015 — just shy of its goal of 45 percent, according to its new recycling progress report. The recycling rate in 2010 was 38 percent. It has set an ambitious goal of a 75 percent recycling rate by 2030. More plastic is ending up in the waste stream, according to the report. The material causes a lot of confusion when it comes to recycling. Plastic beverage bottles, for instance, can be recycled, but plastic bags and plastic films can’t be recycled in curbside programs. Drop-off programs for plastic bags, however, are available at many retailers. The Minneapolis City Council voted in April to ban retailers from offering customers single-use plastic bags. Instead, retailers are required to offer recyclable paper, compostable or reusable bags for 5 cents as part of the “Bring Your Own Bag” ordinance. The ordinance will go into effect June 1, 2017. Paul Kroening, a supervisor in the county’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Unit, said paper, such as cardboard boxes, that could be recycled still ends up in the waste stream, along with food and plastic items found in the house outside the kitchen. The county’s organics recycling rate was 3 percent in 2015. Minneapolis is among about a dozen cities in the county with organics recycling programs. As of early May, nearly 35 percent of Minneapolis recycling customers had signed up for the city’s new organics recycling program. About 15,617 households in the county

TOP 10 MOST COMMON MATERIALS IN HOUSEHOLD TRASH Food: 20 percent Yard waste: 8 percent Textiles and leather: 7 percent Compostable paper: 6 percent Plastic wrap and film: 5 percent Construction and remodeling debris: 4 percent Carpet and padding: 4 percent Diapers and sanitary items: 3 percent Bulky items, such as mattresses and furniture: 3 percent Non-recyclable paper: 3 percent Source: Ramsey/Washington residential waste composition study, 2014 participate in an organics recycling program — only about 4 percent of households in the county. “We have 43 cities in all in Hennepin County overall so we have a ways to go,” Kroening said. A little over half of the trash generated in the county is from businesses and organizations. As of Jan. 1, most commercial buildings in Hennepin County are required to recycle under state law. The county has started offering grants to businesses and nonprofits to help launch recycling programs, including for organics. The HERC burns about 1,000 tons of waste a day, Kroening said. When asked about concerns about the environmental impact of the HERC on its neighbors, Kroening said people shouldn’t be worried. “There are definitely some air emissions, but they are very minor. They should be more worried about the cars going by their house on a daily basis because that has a lot higher impact on air quality,” he said. Waste generation per capita in the county has decreased by 20 percent since 2007. About 1.35 million tons of solid waste was generated in the county in 2015 and 82 percent of it was diverted from landfills through recycling, composting, a reuse program or by incineration at the HERC.

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The Commons The City Council has approved a $600,000 agreement with the Downtown Improvement District to operate the Commons park in Downtown East through the end of the year. The temporary contract, paid for by Green Minneapolis and the city, will have the DID cleaning and maintaining the two-block park beginning this summer. While the park’s name has been open to proposals, the East Downtown Council has taken the task of renaming the east part of downtown upon itself. The 21-seat council voted May 5 to adopt “East Town” as a new brand for the Downtown East and Elliot Park neighborhoods.

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Northstar Center Hess Roise & Co., a tax credit consulting firm, has submitted a nomination with the National Register of Historic Places for the Northstar Center in downtown Minneapolis. The Heritage Preservation Commission approved the nomination May 3 and will be recommending it to the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners of the three-building Northstar Center complex are planning to convert the 313,000 square-foot east building into a 266-unit apartment tower, the Minneapolis branch of Colliers International announced last month.

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The Hotel Ivy has completed a $580,000 renovation of its best room, a two-story penthouse suite that now goes for $5,000 per night. Over the course of six weeks, the 136-room luxury hotel added an upstairs private lounge, a king bed oasis, a master bath with a dual waterfall shower and deep soak tub, and an entertaining space capable of hosting 30 guests to the new suite, according to a release. The suite also has a rooftop balcony in addition to panoramic windows around the 2,500 square feet of living space, which was designed by Martha Dayton. The penthouse overhaul follows last year’s renovations to the guest rooms and lobby bar, along with new restaurants Monello and Constantine.

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YouthLink expansion Preliminary plans for YouthLink’s expansion of its downtown Minneapolis facility surfaced in April at a Planning Commission Committee of the Whole meeting. Through a partnership with Project for Pride in Living, the downtown homeless youth center would build a new five-story, 48-unit residential addition to its facility on the edge of downtown. The addition would have beds grouped into 10 quad units with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and eight studios. According to submitted plans, the

Turf is finally being installed at U.S. Bank Stadium as the Minnesota Vikings prepare to open their new home in just a few months. Crews began installing the turf in the $1.1 billion stadium in early May. Other iconic pieces are being added to the venue, including a large video board in the front and the beginnings of the Legacy Ship. Workers have installed the 60-foot mast of the ship, which will eventually hold a 2,000-square foot curved LED video board, in the Medtronic Plaza. The team recently unveiled a new landmark for the plaza from Medtronic, a 100-foot-long contemporary art sculpture dubbed “The Horn” that will be installed this August.

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TCF building Franklin Street Properties has called off plans for a 50-story skyscraper that it was proposing in place of the former TCF Building in downtown Minneapolis. The Massachusetts-based real estate investment trust had announced to investors last fall its intention to build a mixed-use tower with apartments, a hotel and office space on the site of the four-story office building. The firm disclosed in a securities filing that it won’t be building a new tower. The Nicollet Island bank moved 1,000 employees from the East Bank building and the neighboring TCF Tower to Plymouth earlier this year. Loring Park

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The gallery’s annual juried exhibition returns for a 12th year

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com

oo Visual Arts Center’s annual “Untitled” exhibition is always a great time to visit the southwest Minneapolis gallery because the juried exhibition distills the essence of SooVAC — adventurous and forward-thinking — into one high-proof show. For the first time ever, the 12th annual “Untitled’ jury was two out-of-towners: painter and critic Enrico Gomez of New York City and Winnipeg-based artist Theo Sims. But “Untitled” always reflects the spirit of SooVAC more than anything, like almost any one of the 20 artists could hold down a solo show at the gallery. Give yourself some time to experience the emotional slow burn of “Portrait of Tillie,” an installation by Minneapolis artist Laura Andrews that covers an entire wall at the back of the gallery. The piece consists of scores of personal checks written by the artist’s great grandmother between 1957 and 1997, all tacked to the wall in chronological order, creating a narrative that unfolds from left to right, check by check. It’s a piece that repays close attention, a collage of Tillie’s financial life that hints at major events, from the death of a spouse to the purchase of a new car to, finally, her declining health. In her once neat script, now grown ragged and spidery, Tillie writes out payments to Dakota Foot Clinic and Pulmonary Health Associates. “Gleaming Beryl,” an abstract painting by St. Olaf College art instructor Michon Weeks, is one of the strongest visual statements in the show. On a slate gray background, Weeks paints a field of tightly spaced white dots that create an undulating, opart visual effect. In this wave pool of dots float mysterious, line-based symbols that resemble petroglyphs.

A recent Minneapolis College of Art and Design graduate, Sara Suppan, paints what could be the darkened interior of any student apartment: a double window above a radiator, the blinds drawn to block out the light. But Suppan makes the blinds an imposing, almost monumental presence, a cage of black, horizontal bars that seem to hold back the light of the outdoors. Two small, wall-mounted wood sculptures and a drawing by Cody VanderKaay, an art professor at Oakland University in Michigan, share an appealingly clean-lined, geometric aesthetic. VanderKaay’s “Western Ziggurat” sculptures have serrated edges that resemble the rooflines of cookie-cutter suburban homes. His drawing is executed with mechanical precision, using thin strips of black tape applied to raw canvas. It looks, at first, like a jumbled pile of empty picture frames, but the quadrilaterals slowly reveal themselves to be subtle optical illusions with lines that defy the logic of perspective. “Postcards From the Middle,” a suite of small oil-on-panel paintings by Minneapolis artist and practicing physician Samuel Hanson Willis, seem to describe an idyllic alternate history of post-World War II America, one which didn’t force gay men into the closet. The men in these scenes dress are dressed like you grandfather in old family snapshots, but they display their affection openly in a way that wouldn’t be accepted for decades. They even marry, dressing for the occasion in conservative blue suits. By contrast, Dustin Yager’s cheeky and sexually explicit work draws inspiration from the here-and-now of gay male culture. The imagery in “Minneapolis Boys Cycle,” realized on a set or porcelain plates, comes from texts Yager, who earned his masters from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago in 2011, exchanged with other men since moving to Minneapolis. Some viewers may find them salacious, but shifting the context from screen to dinnerware just underlines the ridiculousness of sexting. An installation by St. Paul artist Charles Matson Lume, consisting of a sheet of acetate a dozen rolls of fluorescent no trespassing tape, casts a tiny nebula of light onto the gallery wall. Named after a famous Marilyn Monroe quote — “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl” — it’s a mysterious and elegiac piece, the light like a ghost hovering above a crime scene.

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Ponese Skinner (left) and Lois Belmore make clay plaques as part of a workshop in the Southwest Senior Center’s DayElders program. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

Senior center connects visitors with friendly faces, range of resources

‘Home away from home’ As Kathy Webster began playing “This Little Light of Mine” on the piano, Harold Jones stood up from his chair and shuffled around the room, stepping to the beat. Jones walked around to each of the women in the room at the Southwest Senior Center, dancing and smiling as they sang gospel songs. Janie Harris, a 16-year participant in the center’s DayElders adult day program, served as song leader, calling out the tunes she wanted Webster to play. The half-an-hour song session was just one of a handful of programs happening during a recent morning at the 40-year-old center in southwest Minneapolis. Other center-goers also practiced tai chi, discussed forgiveness, made name plaques out of clay and ate lunch and homemade cake. “It’s just like home away from home,” Harris said of the center. “It’s just enjoyable.” Many at the center appeared to feel that way, praising the staff and noting the friends they’ve made there over the years. Location Some originally came for exercise or other classes but have come to utilize the center for other services, such as dining and 3612 Bryant Ave. S. brain games. “You meet a lot of nice people,” said Theresa Ernst, who came on the recent morning with homemade chocolate caramel Contact and vanilla cakes to share. “I don’t know what I’d do without the center.” 612-822-3194 Southwest Senior Center offers a variety of programs and services for people 50 and older, including exercise classes, the DayElders program, a monthly food shelf and senior dining program and social-work services. Website Founded through a community-planning process 40 years ago, the center then became affiliated with Senior Resources voamnwi.org/ before merging with Volunteers of America in 1999. Many of the staff have worked there for more than a decade. southwest-center “When people come, they know they’re going to see a friendly face,” said Linda Walker, the center’s social worker of 15 years. “I think just people knowing that somebody cares about them makes a difference.” Year Founded Walker serves as a resource to center-goers on issues from affordable housing to Social Security and Medicare, drawing on 1976 her 39 years of working with seniors to help them retain as much independence as possible. She offers her services for no cost, thanks to a United Way grant that pays for her position. Last year, she served about 650 people. Walker said old age can be very lonely for a lot of folks. The center, she said, offers people an advocate, a place to socialize and a staff that cares. “These people have worked their whole life and have experiences that need to be honored,” she said. “They’ve seen an awful lot of change in their lifetime, and I love hearing how they’ve adapted to that change.” The center’s warm atmosphere could be seen on the recent morning, starting as Webster made French toast for the DayElders participants. Other center-goers watched a video about forgiveness as part of their weekly mindfulness class before joining the DayElders participants for lunch and Ernst’s homemade cake. “For a small program, (the center) offers a lot,” center-goer Judith Prentiss said. “It’s a good source of friends.” Webster said the DayElders participants develop close friendships with other center-goers, staying in touch outside the building and sharing life events with each other. The DayElders group ranges in age from 40 to 98 and in physical and cognitive abilities, but the group still has strong chemistry, Webster said. “We just want to make sure everyone feels comfortable,” she said. “A lot of people just really appreciate being here.” Center-goer Betty Tocko appeared to agree. A friend first showed her the center as a place to exercise about three years ago, but since then has become a volunteer in the DayElders program. “It just has it all,” she said of the center. “A lot of love.”

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What you can do Volunteer as part of a group. There are opportunities to help with brain games, bingo, garden prep and more. Volunteer as an individual. The center could always use help with its senior-dining program, adult-day program and computer program. It also welcomes people with a special talent, hobby or travel experience to come and share.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live

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Entrepreneur shares insights about tackling tech gap By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com CODE2040’s mission is built into its name. The organization has a goal of making people of color proportionately represented in the country’s tech sector by 2040 — when minorities will become the majority of the U.S. population. CODE2040 co-founder and CEO Laura Weidman Powers shared her strategies for tackling the technology opportunity gap and creating more inclusive workplaces with local entrepreneurs and tech workers at COCO’s co-working hub in Uptown on May 4. “What does the consumer base of tomorrow look like? It looks like the population,” she said. “What does the workforce of tomorrow look like? It needs to look like the population otherwise companies are not going to be able to grow and thrive. They are not going to be able to get access to the talent they need to succeed.” The organization faces an uphill battle to tackle its mission. The number of black and Latino employees at top Silicon Valley companies is around 5 to 7 percent, according to CODE2040, a nonprofit based in San Francisco. The number of students of color who earn computer science degrees annually is about 18 percent. The number of students graduating with degrees ready to go into the tech sector also lags far beyond the need. An estimated 70

percent of tech jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to the organization. She said it was a turning point for the industry in May 2014 when Google released its workplace diversity numbers showing that women made up 17 percent of its workforce, blacks 2 percent and Latinos 3 percent — dismal figures that got industry leaders to admit there was a problem that needed to be fixed. “Basically overnight the whole conversation about diversity and tech changed,” she said. CODE2040 has launched three main programs to tackle the opportunity gap: a fellows program for top students of color who intern at top tech firms in the San Francisco Bay Area; a Technical Applicant Prep (TAP) program that helps students and young professionals land jobs; and an entrepreneurs in residency program for black and Latino entrepreneurs. COCO is hosting entrepreneur-in-residence Alex Rodriguez, co-founder of WorkMand, an on-demand platform connecting businesses with local contractors for manual labor services, as part of the partnership with CODE2040 and Google for Entrepreneurs. As part of the program, Rodriguez gets a $40,000 stipend, a COCO membership and a retreat to Googleplex in Silicon Valley for training and networking.

Towle building taps new kind of café Matt McGinn’s Blackeye Roasting Company has never gone the traditional route in selling its nitro cold-brewed coffee. The coffee company first looked to bottles, cans and even

— Laura Weidman Powers, CODE2040 co-founder and CEO, at left. “Really what we’re doing is learning a lot about what issues entrepreneurs of color are facing — what needs they have,” Weidman Powers said. She said the tech sector can respond to change quickly and has the potential to make a big impact on addressing racial inequalities. “Tech has a huge tolerance for experimentation, for risk taking, for learning from mistakes, for changing opinions and directions based on data — it’s just part of the culture and the DNA,” she said. She said her organization is also exploring at working with the financial industry since so many jobs are tech related. When asked about what Minneapolis can do

Owner Tiffany Hauser and general manager Justine Morris recently opened a second Green + The Grain in the skyway. Photo by Eric Best

FROM SKYWAY DINING / PAGE 1 was a food truck, said the skyway presence has allowed them get creative and expand their menu. Green + The Grain offers customizable salads and wraps with an emphasis on flavorful dressings and healthy, organic and local ingredients. “We try to individualize ourselves by being really fresh. Everything is super herbaceous,” she said. The restaurant’s most popular items are the Cowboy, a romaine salad bowl with blackened grilled chicken shaved radish, Chihuahua cheese and jalapeno ranch dressing, and Apple + Pear, an organic spinach mixture with wheat berry, pear, craisins and bleu cheese. Another favorite, the Grain Bowl with organic spinach, roasted beet and quinoa, is topped with a pesto vinaigrette that’s made daily to keep the basil fresh, Morris said. Customers are able to skip the lines — and they can be quite long — through ordering online. Green + The Grain also offers catering services. The concept’s popularity comes at a time when both growing fast casual startups and national chains are vying for space. “My chef and I have this saying, ‘If it’s good, they will come.’ We just really believe in the freshness and quality of what we’re doing,” Hauser said in an email. “I think that our customers not only really love our salads, but they also love the story behind us and who we are as a company.” Green + The Grain is now open in the Roanoke Building at 109 S. 7th St.

Really what we’re doing is learning a lot about what issues entrepreneurs of color are facing — what needs they have.

to attract more diverse talent, she stressed the importance of building “authentic communities of support” to make relocating a more attractive option. Weidman Powers has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a JD and MBA from Stanford University. She has earned many accolades for her work with CODE2040, including being named one of 10 Female Executives on the Rise by Fortune and one of the 100 Most Influential African-Americans in 2013 by The Root. To learn more about her organization, go to code2040.org.

space in the Towle building at 2nd Avenue South & 4th Street South. It’s expected to open in mid-June. Blackeye’s nitro cold brew is available in cans at Whole Foods, Lunds & Byerly’s and Super America locations, as well as on tap at restaurants like Red Cow and Pizza Luce.

Future lunch options

tap lines at restaurants and breweries before opening up its first Blackeye-branded café. McGinn, the company’s founder, is looking to join the downtown Minneapolis skyway in June, but not exactly with a traditional coffee shop. “We took the opposite approach of entry into this market,” McGinn said. “It’s definitely going to be us. It’s unapologetic.” McGinn is planning a non-alcoholic cocktail café with 10 tap lines to serve the company’s nitro cold brew, tea from Verdant Tea, kombucha from Prohibition Kombucha and non-alcoholic cocktails inspired by Bittercube. For more traditional coffee drinkers, the shop will also serve Blackeye’s hot coffee and espresso drinks. The shop will have a direct connection to cocktails. McGinn is planning to serve a nitro tonic drink inspired by a cold brew and

tonic cocktail at Red Cow that features Blackeye’s coffee. McGinn’s non-alcoholic version contains the coffee, Bittercube’s Bolivar bitters and tonic water. “We kind of want to mimic the bar scene, the beer scene and the alcohol scene. We’re merging it with the coffee scene, which not many people do,” he said. “The cafes are our taprooms.” For McGinn, who has managed cafes for years, the transition to cafes isn’t a new challenge, but it will be new territory for Blackeye. And the company doesn’t show any sign of slowing down with McGinn also planning another Blackeye café for the former Blue Ox Coffee Company location at 3740 Chicago Ave. S. in Powderhorn. The company is also transitioning to a new manufacturing facility that won’t be open to the public. The 18-seat shop is slated for a skyway

Even more food options are slated for the city’s skyway system. Naf Naf Grill already has huge lines outside its new skyway-accessible restaurant in US Bank Plaza. The fast-growing Chicago-based chain, which specializes in Middle Eastern staples like falafel, is planning to open new locations in City Center and an addition to Mall of America. A spokeswoman with CBRE, which represented Naf Naf Grill to secure the locations, said the City Center restaurant is expected to open in mid-August. In a similar boat is established chain Five Guys Burgers and Fries. The national burger chain is opening a 2,200-square-foot restaurant on the first floor of RBC Plaza on Nicollet Mall sometime this season. The people behind St. Paul’s On’s Kitchen recently opened Pad Ga-Pow in the Highland Bank Court building at 811 LaSalle Ave. It promises “fresh, fast and authentic Thai cuisine.” The skyway system is also growing itself with more connections into the new Downtown East development, creating room for even more skyway-accessible options. Eric Sheaffer, an associate with CBRE, said there are open spaces in the project’s Radisson Red hotel and even a 7,000-square-foot restaurant location in the eastern Wells Fargo tower. Dermot Cowley, the restaurateur behind O’Donovan’s Irish Pub in downtown Minneapolis, is planning his own restaurant in the other tower.

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A paddle on the urban Mississippi

A view of the Mississippi from a kayak near Nicollet Island. Photos by Sarah McKenzie

By Christopher Kasic Minnesota canoeing often conjures up images of breathtaking Boundary Waters summers, scenic ponds and quiet lakes, and, if you’re lucky, Northern Lights aplenty. But you can get away from the city without driving six hours and planning your Boundary Waters permit a year in advance. Perhaps you’ve already paddled around the Chain of Lakes in a rental, and are ready to take the next step — an urban paddling journey and lock passage on the Mississippi. There are many points within the Twin Cities for a great Mississippi river water adventure; both above and below St. Anthony Falls. Hidden Falls Park — the south end of the urban river — is a good starting point just south of the Ford Lock and Dam. The current is typically slow and inviting, but can be swift at times. The Mississippi hides itself from civilization here — or perhaps we’ve hidden from it. Houses are hard to spot, but those fishing from shore and kicking the sand were always nearby and tucked away from the roads and neighborhoods. On a weekend, the boat traffic can be occasional, but most slow when approaching paddlers. Among the cottonwoods, it’s easy to spot the Big River’s shore-wading birds; typically herons and egrets. Eagles are a treat to spot and more visible recently.

Traversing the Lock A bit further upstream is the Lock and Dam #1, the Ford, after its original owner. A group of fishing boats might be trying the stream heads and island tips. You can traverse free of charge. You may have been through the lock on a cruise boat; but a canoe or kayak is a closer brush with nature and civil engineering alike. Paddlers should remember to stay well back until receiving a green signal to enter, and proceed carefully to shore side and find a rope. You can contact the lock operator if necessary, and make sure you know the lock’s hours so you can return. You realize the enormity of the giant bathtub immediately, so grab

A group of paddlers near the Lowry Avenue bridge. a side rope and hold on. It doesn’t take long to float you up to Minnesota’s urban blueway between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The lock opens northward on a wider channel, with the Ford Bridge spans looking so much bigger from the river than the road. The river is generally quiet except for a few kayakers, and the sense of the hiddenness again might lap the side of your canoe. The blufftop trails on both sides of the river are likely full of joggers and cyclists. Aside from rivers-edge trails and a busy bridge or two, your vista is mostly wooded; astonishing when you’re navigating between two cities totaling three-quarters of a million people. North of 44th Street, you pass the Winchell Trail on the west side of the river, all the way up to the Franklin Bridge. You can be forgiven if you’re a lifelong resident and never realized a three-mile shore trail existed below. You might also spot a few fishermen. The ruins of the Meeker Island Lock and Dam are on your right just as you pass the Lake Street Bridge. Once you pass under the bridge, you might encounter a University of Minnesota crew team, which uses this portion of the river to practices in the summer. You can

dock at the U of M boat house on the east side of the river, or continue on past the Interstate 94 Bridge. There are many flat areas to easily beach your canoe or kayak. Above the Washington Street Bridge and Bohemian Flats is the six mile mark. The current is strong from St. Anthony Falls, and the best journey is to turn around and enjoy the current on the six mile journey back.

Planning your trip Visit the Water Trails site at the DNR for a great summary of the exact entry and exit points on many Minnesota water ways, along with advisories, guidelines, and history of the river at dnr.state.mn.us/watertrails. Be sure to check the river level before you go with readings and interpretations. Erik Wrede, state water trails coordinator, posts newly approved state-wide water trails, as well as podcasts to make your water journey more enjoyable and informed. Logistics is the next thing to attend when planning your trip. Most canoeists take a round trip. When you do, make sure to paddle upstream first, in case the length of the

journey, the wind, or the current is more than expected. If you do choose a downstream-only paddle, you might choose to lock your canoe upstream, park one car downstream, and ride another back to the start. For solo paddlers, it’s always a round-trip and at least half a journey against the current. For the logistics and gear geeks, lock your canoe up at the entry point, drive to the destination, and cycle back to the canoe. This assumes a multitude of appropriate gear on your car, but several local organizations are considering a canoe-bike share combination. The details haven’t been worked out yet. In the meantime, a bit of planning before you start is well worth it. A canoe trip down the river you likely pass many times on a highway bridge is a refreshing view of the urban appeal of the Twin Cities and a certain journey to make the out-of-state relatives jealous.

Christopher Kasic is a Twin-Cities based freelance writer.

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Ask the Nurse / By Michelle Napral

SPRING BRINGS WORRY ABOUT LYME DISEASE

My wife and I love being outside this time of year running along the river and at her family’s cabin, but do we need to be concerned about Lyme disease? It’s a common question for Minnesotans to ask. After all, our state is one of 13 states where Lyme disease is present, mainly because deer ticks are abundant, living in wooded areas, tall grasses and dead leaves. There were nearly 900 confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Minnesota last year, with an additional 520 probable cases. Those numbers have continued to increase over the last decade, not just in Minnesota, but nationwide. If you’re in Minneapolis and staying away from brushy areas of the city, your risk for contracting Lyme disease is low. But we all know Minnesotans are bound to get out of the city at some point, so it’s important to practice Lyme disease prevention strategies and be aware of symptoms, especially April through November.

Dress appropriately Before enjoying the great outdoors, you can apply insect repellent containing deet on skin. Some new products allow you to spray

your clothes. Make sure you wear shoes, long-sleeved shirts and long pants when you’re in wooded areas. This will minimize the amount of skin that ticks can bite. Wearing light color clothes helps you spot ticks during and after outdoor activities.

Check yourself

Talk to your provider

If you think you have been bitten by a tick and could have Lyme disease, schedule an appointment with your primary care provider immediately.

Not everyone is going to be willing to bundle up on a hot day to protect against ticks. So, a simple “tick check” is a great precaution. A deer tick can only infect someone if it is attached for at least 24 hours. Look at the scalp, waist, armpits, groin, and backs of knees for the little creatures. Taking a shower or going for a swim will help wash off ticks that aren’t yet latched to the body. Unlike the wood tick, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, deer ticks are very small, about the size of a poppy seed. These insects spread bacteria when they latch onto their victim, transferring the disease through the bite.

Being especially careful not to crush or squeeze the body, as this can release Lymecausing bacteria into your body. Wash the area with soap and water. Never use a hot match, or petroleum jelly to remove a tick. If possible, save the tick in a zip lock bag and show your health care provider, or note the color, size, and if it was big, round, and full of blood.

Remove the tick right way

Know the signs

If an embedded tick is found, use tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible. Pull it out slowly and gently.

Symptoms of Lyme disease can start days or weeks after a tick bite. Symptoms can vary and may include: a round red rash

If you think you have been bitten by a tick and could have Lyme disease, schedule an appointment with your primary care provider immediately. Patients treated with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages of Lyme disease usually recover rapidly and completely. We administer a quick blood test at our clinic to determine if Lyme Disease is present, and will prescribe antibiotics. Symptoms can improve quickly, or it can take weeks or months for symptoms to subside. For city dwellers, the risk is minimal. Summer in Minnesota is short, so enjoy it. Don’t forgo an active, healthy outdoor weekend due to a fear of ticks. But, take precautions when you’re outside the city at the lake or at a state park. Take steps to minimize your risk, and always talk to your care provider if you have questions or concerns.

Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago. Send questions to nursnews@umn.edu.

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Whirlygig Indeed Brewing Company’s biggest weekend of the year — that’s Art-A-Whirl weekend, of course — brings people together around beer, art and music in Northeast Minneapolis. First Avenue has put together a three-day lineup featuring local bands like Dosh, Fort Wilson Riot, The Blind Shake and Charlie Parr, among others. On the beer side, Indeed will have its Lavender, Sunflower Honey, Dates Honey Ale — also known as the LSD ale — in cans in addition to the taproom’s regular brews. The bash is also in walking distance of art across the Solar Arts Building and Northrup King Building, some of Art-AWhirl’s epicenters. Lastly, the MN Brewery Running Series is hosting a 5K on Sunday, May 22 with a Blue Goose Photo Booth to capture all the Kodak moments. The cashonly party runs during normal taproom hours: Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21 from 12-11 p.m. and Sunday, May 22 from 12-8 p.m. Where: Indeed Brewing Company, 711 15th Ave. NE When: Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 22 Cost: $1 Info: indeedbrewing.com

Skyline Mini Golf With construction now going full speed ahead in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the Walker Art Center has moved its nine-hole mini golf course to the roof. This season the rooftop course features “18 Holes in One,” a topographical representation of the famous Augusta National Golf Course, the Andy Warhol-themed “Thrillo-Brillo,” “Putt-Pong” with its tangle of colorful pingpong paddles and “Be a Sculpture!” where golfers become both obstacles and works of art. Plus, each golf ticket includes gallery admission. Golf hours are 11 a.m.5 p.m. from Tuesday through Sunday with later hours until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Where: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave. When: May 26 through Sept. 4 Cost: $12 adults, $10 students, free for ages 6 and under with paid adult Info: walkerart.org

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The Edina Art Fair returns to the 50th & France neighborhood for its 50th anniversary with more than 300 artists from around the world. This year’s featured artist is Minneapolis-based fashion illustrator Cait Courneya , who is, ironically, participating in the art fair for the first time. The festival features a couple new events this year, with a Kids Zone for kids to create their own art and be entertained by a band and puppeteers. The event’s tap beer will be the unique #50 by Freehouse and the musical headliner will be the Rocking Hollywoods on Friday and Tim Patrick and his Blue-Eyed Band on Saturday.

Memory Lanes has been kicking off summer vibes in Minneapolis with its annual block party for the past eight years. This year, its Memorial Day weekend party will be hosting headliner and local hip hop super group Mixed Blood Majority on Saturday, May 28 with Bones & Beeker and Little Fevers on the main stage, and tiny deaths and Dead Disco DJs afterward inside the bowling alley. On Sunday, May 29 Legendary Shack Shakers from Kentucky play outdoors and Davina and The Vagabonds hold down the party with their New Orleans-style music indoors. This block party is all ages from 3-10 p.m. and 21-plus after 10 p.m.

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Rock the Block Uptown’s Coup d’état is once again hosting one of the first (unofficial) summer block parties this season with music from local bands and food from local restaurants. The third annual festival features Filthy Animals, Oaks, Phillip Morris, The Honeydogs and Viva Knievel. For eats, Rock the Block will have food and drinks from Coup d’état, Borough, Monello, Earl Giles and Scena Tavern.

Lit Crawl MN The bookworms are finally getting their own crawl with the inaugural Lit Crawl MN. The crawl weaves through venues across the Twin Cities with more than a dozen events, ranging from readings, interactive story building and workshops, celebrating the local literary scene. In its first year, the crawl will feature literary fortune telling at Magers & Quinn, emoji translations from Growler editorial staff and life advice from poets at The Loft Literary Center, and much more. The crawl culminates with a free party at 10 p.m. at Red Stag Supperclub, at 509 1st Ave. NE, with DJ Shannon Blowtorch.

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The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is kicking off a summer full of movies and music in the city’s parks. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, parks across Minneapolis will host more than 200 concerts and 70 movies. Lake Harriet will kick things off with bands, including All the Islands from 5:30-7 p.m. and Socaholix from 7:30-9 p.m., and vendors Bread & Pickle, Hot Indian Foods, Rusty Taco and Sweat Dreams Candy are handling food. To check out the series at a park near you visit mplsmusicandmovies.com. Where: Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W. Lake St. When: Monday, May 30 from 5-9 p.m. Cost: Free Info: mplsmusicandmovies.com

Da Vinci and the Drone Form + Content Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Da Vinci and the Drone,” features the work of Vesna Kittelson, who contrasts the human passion for flight with the modern era of pilotless drones. The art, which consists of drawings, an eponymous artist book and models of Leonardo da Vinci’s wing, brings unsettling ambiguities of contemporary life together. Kittelson, a Croatian American artist, has exhibited her work internationally in Cambridge, England; Split, Croatia; and Minneapolis. Where: Form + Content Gallery, 210 N. 2nd St. / When: May 19 through June 25 / Cost: Free / Info: formandcontent.org

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