June 16, 2016 by The Journal

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A STAND AGAINST HATE Vigil honors victims of Orlando mass shooting By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com About 2,000 people gathered in Loring Park on June 12 to find solace, share grief and honor victims of the Orlando mass shooting. Several elected officials, community and religious leaders spoke at the nearly two-hour vigil, offering words of comfort as the nation once again tried to digest news of another horrific episode of gun violence. The massacre of 49 people at a popular gay night club June 12 was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus sang “Walk Hand in Hand With Me” as the crowd held hands and lit candles. The event was organized by OutFront Minnesota and state Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-61). State Rep. Karen Clark (DFL-62A), the longest serving lesbian elected official in the country, said the tragedy can’t lead to more division. “Sometimes the most powerful form of resistance we have to the evil that happened today and to that happens in many other small ways is

A large crowd listened to speakers at a June 12 vigil in Loring Park for the Orlando shooting victims. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com A key City Council committee has cleared the way for Alatus’ 40-story condo tower planned for the city’s riverfront to move forward. The Council’s Zoning & Planning Committee has overturned the Heritage Preservation Commission’s decision to deny approvals for the project on grounds it would be too tall for the area, which is part of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District. Alatus also secured approvals to move ahead with demolishing the St. Anthony Commercial Club building within three months to begin construction on the

project planned for 200 Central Ave. SE. The building was most recently home to a Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapel. The full Council is expected to approve the proposed condo tower at its June 17 meeting. The project has sparked vigorous debate about what is appropriate for the area given its location in the Old St. Anthony neighborhood — the city’s birthplace. The tower site is across the street from the Ard Godrey House, the city’s oldest wood frame house. Veteran developer Bob Lux, principal of Alatus who spearheaded the Carlyle and

Grant Park condo developments, said the project planned for the city’s east bank would make a bold statement. “We want to move the city forward in a big way,” he said. Pending final approvals, Lux said the developer would like to start on construction by the end of the year. The tower would feature 207 condos, retailers and a restaurant at street level. He said the project has gone through “exhaustive” neighborhood review and will feature high-quality materials, including SEE ALATUS TOWER / PAGE 11

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KEYS TO THE CITY You can tickle the ivories all over downtown the month of June. As part of a new Pianos on Parade program, 25 pianos painted in a variety of styles celebrating downtown have been placed at various locations. People are invited to play them and performances have been lined up over the lunch hour on Tuesdays. Noted Minnesota pianist Lorie Line kicked off the initiative with a performance June 1 at a piano placed near Kieran’s Irish Pub in Mayo Clinic Square. “Our city is full of musical talent, and downtown is the perfect place to showcase it,” said Leah Wong, vice president of events and marketing for the Minneapolis Downtown Council. “Pianos on Parade will not only add to the vibrancy of our downtown, but it will offer a chance for everyone to use them. The community is encouraged to share the gift of music by playing the pianos this June.” The Pianos on Parade program will also be part of Make Music Twin Cities — a free music celebration on the summer solstice, June 21. Keys 4/4 Kids, a St. Paul-based nonprofit focused on inspiring young people to get involved in the arts, is also involved in the project.

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X Huang (left) and John Sugimura in their new restaurant PinKU in Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Eric Best

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At first glance, PinKU’s flagship restaurant in Northeast is easy to over look. Yet, a closer look at that the apartment-sized concept reveals the founders’ fine-tuning to be a leaner, more refined fast-casual restaurant chain. Co-founders Xiaoteng “X” Huang and John Sugimura have been building out the Japanese street-food concept’s first location in former Primrose Park space in Northeast Minneapolis since earlier this year. The 960-squarefoot restaurant officially opens the night of Friday, June 17 at 20 University Ave. NE in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood. Huang, who handles PinKU’s business side, is a Minnesota native who left a career in finance with companies like Goldman Sachs and Target to gain kitchen experience in other fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Noodles & Company. Sugimura, another Minnesota native, was raised in Japan and has worked as a private chef, serving thousands of people with some of the same food PinKU plans to serve. Sugimura, who also designed the restaurant, has five installations to bring diners to the food carts of Kyoto’s streets, including one that welcomes you in the door. A simple yellow lamp casts yellow-painted light across the front door, evoking, Sugimura says, the single, dingy lights of Japanese dumpling houses. Walking inside, the menu becomes a second installation thanks to rows of prayer plaques made from Japanese Douglas fir trees. Each hanging plaque, something you’d see at Japanese temples to wish someone luck or to mourn an ancestor, he said, has a menu item. In the nearby wait area, diners will sit on salvaged tree stumps. “We just wanted to really capture that old-school, hundreds-of-years-old kind of mentality,” Sugimura said. Continuing the journey, the 32-seat dining area is painted midnight blue and is lined with simple, dark sconces. Wood tables sit underneath, meant to appear like the street carts serving fried fare to late-night guests. “They just kind of emerge at dark. That’s where the menu comes from,” Sugimura said. Lining the open kitchen is a counter with the fourth installation, a grid of traditional, black-and-white kimono fabrics. It pairs with the fifth installation, the eponymous “PinKU” mural that Sugimura designed with artist Jared Tuttle. The installation depicts a 29-foot fish with green, pink, black and white scales with flowers, kimono patterns — including Sugimura’s family crest — and other designs. Since first announcing the menu earlier this year, PinKU hasn’t touched it much. The lunch and dinner menu consists of $4.50-$9 options like a yellowtail tuna with crispy onions ($7), seared salmon on rice ($6.50) or with a rice cake ($5.50), and fried ramen with crispy pork ($7). They’ve also added a tuna

Steve’s custom Big Daddy’s protect him from sunlight, car brights and bugs that feel like bullets. poke with avocado, radish and more fixings ($8). A kid’s meal with crispy rice, potstickers and ramen goes for $5. Sugimura said they plan to roll out breakfast in the fall, which will likely be a single item. After 10 p.m., PinKU will have a smaller menu consisting of a few items. On the beverage side, PinKU has a $6 “PinKU Elixir,” a party drink designed by Sugimura that consists of champagne, pomegranate juice, orange liqueur, sake and lime. The restaurant will also have a champagne ($7), a house sake (Kikusui Funaguchi, $4-9), several wines ($6) and two beers — a 22-ounce Sapporo ($7) and a 16-ounce Coors Light ($4). “We want to make this whole menu approachable, strip away the pretense,” Huang said. PinKU will also serve a few unique bottled or canned beverages, including three flavors of Banzai Bunny sparkling sake, Turbo Tea and Spindrift seltzer waters. Unlike many casual Asian restaurants, PinKU won’t have disposable chopsticks, which would’ve run them $800 a month, Sugimura said. In fact, the restaurant won’t have any paper products. Food will come out on custom stainless-steel trays with metal chopsticks. There will even be cloth napkins. Even if the food won’t be presented like other fast-casual restaurants, Sugimura says it will come out just as fast. He said PinKU will have four-minute ticket times. “If you really have only 15 minutes you can really come in and grab something to eat no differently than at Chipotle or Jimmy John’s,” he said. Another peculiarity of PinKU is its transparency. The two are planning to have cameras livestream the restaurant on its website partially to hold themselves accountable, but also as a service to customers. “If you’re at home and you were going to come out at 9:30, wouldn’t you love to know is it busy [or] is there a table?” Sugimura said. As far as the next PinKU restaurant goes, the two are already working to get in at the airport, which they say will be their next location. Previously they looked at a local art gallery and a hotel development. PinKU has already drawn interest from some locals, including several applicants from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management looking for start-up experience — not to mention an out-ofthe-blue investor. A nearby condo owner contacted them over Facebook looking to invest in the concept. “When you get that, you’re like ‘We got this,’” Sugimura said. PinKU officially opens on June 17 at 10 p.m. The restaurant’s regular hours will be 11 a.m.-10 p.m. every day with late-night dining (10 p.m.-12 a.m.) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Revl is a new, luxury car-sharing startup with a few goals in mind: take care of yourself, the cars and others — and look good while doing it. The company was founded last December and officially opened in April. While just is in the infancy stages, Revl hopes to become a lot bigger. Revl is hoping to expand to Chicago later this year, Los Angeles after that and hoping to go international by 2017. Since there are other car-sharing companies that exist, what makes Revl unique? Dan Hobbs, the entrepreneur and founder of Revl, produced this idea while using another car-sharing service. He noted that some of his friends had been sharing a luxury car. He wondered if he could mix the two. He could, and he did. It took two years of planning before Revl was born. “It has been a long journey,” Hobbs said. “I thought we could change people’s lives for the better. People who aren’t in that income bracket can experience luxury, and have better experiences car sharing.” Revl has an application process to ensure that each participant has the proper documents and a decent driving record. One can have no more than five tickets in the last five years, and since the idea of this company is to create a community of luxury car drivers, no other charges should be on one’s record.

With the responsibility and accountability that members have, there is also security. Everything from insurance, maintenance and other concerns are covered through the service. The cars have no markings so no one can distinguish these luxury vehicles from any other. “I think it provides alternative transportation options to a demographic that hasn’t been reached. It’s exciting and new,” Hobbs said. After the application process, most reservations are done via smartphone. There is a RevlApp that can even unlock the car, and it lets the user know what cars are available and at what time. There are two classes of vehicles, all new models available 24 hours a day. The R class has Mercedes, BMW, Ford Mustang and Audis. The L class has Tesla, Maserati Ghibli, Corvette and Porsche. There are three packages, with the lowest being 25 hours per month and the highest being 80. Membership tiers start at $149 per month. Revl touts several benefits to its service, such as fewer cars on the road, getting to know other car sharers and the self-esteem boost that comes from driving nicer cars. There are multiple locations, many near downtown Minneapolis, to pick up Revl cars.

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A co-branded Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels concept has opened in the former Vincent A Restaurant space on Nicollet Mall. The shop, a concept called Coffee & Bagels, features coffee drinks from Caribou, food from Einstein and tea from Argo Tea. The space at the corner of Nicollet & 11th is the former home of chef Vincent Francoual’s longstanding French restaurant, which closed at the end of 2015. The shop has a small bar with tea-based

drinks on tap. It will see the additions of Caribou’s cold-press and Nitro coffee drinks later this year. The Coffee & Bagels concept has quickly grown to 27 locations across seven states since first being introduced last September. Caribou and Einstein plan to open three more Coffee & Bagels shops featuring allnatural tea brand Argo Tea in the Twin Cities this year. The Coffee & Bagels location opened at 1100 Nicollet Ave. S. on June 1.

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Sports Authority is closing its Nicollet Mall store less than a year after opening the highprofile location. The Colorado-based company, once the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer, is closing all of its remaining stores. Sports Authority filed bankruptcy in March, saying then that it would only close 140 of its 450 stores, but it could not find a buyer for the remaining stores, CNN Money reported. In a letter to customers, CEO Michael Foss said they expect to close all stores by the end of August. Remaining stores will offer closing sales. “Sports Authority and its predecessor companies have been serving the sporting

goods needs of our customers since 1919,” he said in a statement. “On behalf of the entire Sports Authority team, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to our customers for their years of loyalty. It has been a pleasure to serve you and your family.” Closing sales have already begun in the store in City Center. The approximately 22,000-square-foot store, located at Nicollet & 7th, opened last fall. The retailer also has locations in Burnsville, Coon Rapids, Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Richfield, Roseville and Woodbury. Sports Authority also has a going-out -of-business sale on its website at sportsauthority.com.

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& Rail Blue Plate Restaurant Co. plans to open two new concepts in the former Brasserie Zentral and Foreign Legion spaces in downtown Minneapolis. The company, which also operates the Lowry, Freehouse, Edina Grill and Longfellow Grill, recently announced it has signed a lease for the spaces of the former fine-dining establishment and its wine bar counterpart in the Soo Line Building. Mercury Dining Room & Rail, planned for the Brasserie Zentral’s space at 5th & Marquette, will be a full-service restaurant with “uniquely family fare,” including all-day breakfast. The concept will have a full cocktail, beer and wine list. It’s slated to open this fall. In the neighboring space the company is planning to open Shindig Event Center. The concept will be able to accommodate parties of up to 130 people and is also slated to open this fall. The “intimate, bohemian, yet chic”

Shindig will have a rooftop patio access with views of downtown, according to a release. Well-known restaurateurs Russell and Desta Klein closed Brasserie Zentral in January and Foreign Legion in April. The critically acclaimed restaurants closed following a string of fine-dining establishments exiting the downtown area, including La Belle Vie and Vincent A Restaurant. The two also sold their skyway coffee shop in the Soo Line Building, Café Zentral, which has reopened as World Café. Along with the two new downtown Minneapolis concepts, Blue Plate owners David Burley and Stephanie Shimp also announced they will be opening Bottle Rocket in the space of their former restaurant, Scusi. The restaurant at 1806 St. Clair Ave. S. in St. Paul is slated to open this fall and will serve lunch and dinner daily, along with breakfast on weekends.

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the villages they serve, and sell them to fund surgeries, using 100 percent of profits to fund the operations. Inspire is set to open in June in the 36-story tower. LPM has also welcomed Lakes & Legends Brewing Company, Eggy’s Diner and YogaFit Studios to the Loring Park neighborhood near downtown Minneapolis.

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City weighs in on Southwest LRT’s ﬁnal environmental report While city officials continue to support the proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit project, they reemphasized several concerns about the project in comments on the final environmental impact statement (FEIS). Those concerns include freight rail safety, pedestrian connections along the line in the Kenilworth Corridor, potential construction impacts on residents, noise and the visual impact of the project on the corridor. The Metropolitan Council collected comments on the FEIS through June 13. The City Council’s Transportation & Public Works Committee signed off on the city’s comments on the report June 7. City staff reiterated that the Southwest Project Office must coordinate with the railroad to minimize the risk of derailment, particularly for trains carrying hazardous cargo. The comments also emphasized that city leaders need to be involved in reviewing plans for the tunnel construction to minimize impacts on property owners and groundwater. City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) also reminded Council members and staff during the committee meeting that the City Council previously passed a staff direction calling for a report outlining potential legal actions if new information shows direct or indirect impacts on the lakes during construction of

the project. “No one wants anything to happen to the lakes, but it’s such a high priority for everyone that I just wanted to restate that we had taken that action and we’re counting on everyone to stay on top of that issue,” she said. Staff also stressed the importance of minimizing visual impacts and noise in the corridor — both when removing trees and post-construction when trains are running. “The city looks forward to continued conversations with the Council, its contractors, and the community regarding the restoration of the corridor, and expects these measures to be fully implemented by the project,” staff wrote. Meanwhile, project organizers are pushing for a special legislative session to secure $135 million in state funding for the $1.79 billion project. Without the funding, the project could be at risk of losing $895 million in matching funds. A lawsuit is also pending claiming that the Met Council violated state and federal laws by choosing a final route for the project before completing the environmental review process. Southwest LRT would link downtown Minneapolis with Eden Prairie. Service is expected to start in 2020 if it overcomes recent hurdles. The City Council approved a preliminary design for the project Sept. 25, 2015.

City wears orange for gun violence awareness Minneapolis leaders joined cities around the country in wearing orange June 2 for National Gun Violence Awareness/Orange Walk Day. The day honors Hadiya Pendleton, who would have celebrated her 19th birthday June 2. While a 15-year-old high school student from the south of side of Chicago, she marched in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural parade Jan. 21, 2013. One week later, she was shot and killed in Chicago. A group of her friends decided to wear orange as a way to remember her — also the color hunters wear to protect themselves in the woods. “Gun violence has no place in Minneapolis or in any other city,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges. “Sensible, smart gun policies can prevent gun violence. I call on every Minneapolitan to join me and commit to keeping guns out of the wrong hands and encouraging those who legally own firearms to be responsible and safe.” Minneapolis has experienced a surge in gun

violence this year. As of May 30, there have been 126 shooting victims in the city — up 75 percent from the same period a year ago, according to Minneapolis police crime statistics. Birdell Beeks, a grandmother, was recently killed by a stray bullet in North Minneapolis on May 26. She was sitting in a minivan with her granddaughter when she got caught in the crossfire. The next day, Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said additional police resources are headed to the 4th Precinct. “As we continue to work aggressively to address our increase in gun violence, one of my greatest concerns has been realized; people with no regard for the lives of those in our community taking the life of an innocent bystander,” she said. “This is intolerable and unacceptable.” The Journals published an in-depth report, “Under Fire,” earlier this year examining the problem of gun violence in Minneapolis.

Absentee voting starts June 24 Absentee voting for the Aug. 9 primary starts Friday, June 24. Voters can cast their ballot by mail or in person. In-person absentee voting is moving from City Hall to the Community Services Building, 217 3rd St. The primary election determines which candidates will appear on the ballot for the November general election for partisan and nonpartisan races. In Minneapolis, the primary election includes partisan races for U.S. State Representative (District 5), Minnesota State Senator (Districts 59 and 62), Minnesota State Representative (District 59A and 60B) and a nonpartisan race, Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice (Seat 6). One of the more notable races is the contest for state House seat 60B. Longtime legislator Phyllis Kahn, a DFLer, is facing competition from fellow DFLers Ilhan Omar and Mohamud Noor. Abdimali Askar, a Republican, is also running for the seat, which represents Minneapolis neighborhoods along the riverfront and University of Minnesota. The city is also seeking election judges, especially ones fluent in a second language, such as Spanish, Somali, Hmong, Oromo, Lao, Vietnamese, Russian and American Sign Language. Election judges are paid $13.30 an hour. For more info, go to vote.minneapolismn.gov/ judges or call 311. The November election will include the presidential race, U.S. State Representative (District 5), Minnesota State Senator (all districts), Minnesota State Representative (all districts), Minnesota Supreme Court Justice (Seat 6), Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge (several seats), Fourth District Court Judge (several seats), and Minneapolis School Board (Districts 2, 4, 6 and one at-large seat). There will also be a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot. The question will read: “Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to remove state lawmakers’ power to set their own salaries, and instead establish an independent, citizens-only council to prescribe salaries of lawmakers?” Another possible charter amendment that might appear on the ballot would require Minneapolis police officers to carry their own professional liability insurance. To learn more about early voting and upcoming elections, go to vote.minneapolis.gov. Minnesota Secretary of State Simon has launched the Pledge-to-Vote-program — a new voter outreach program with the goal of making Minnesota number one in the nation in voter turnout. Participating organizations will get a free voter outreach kit to encourage people to vote on Election Day. “This program is going to aid in our efforts to reach out to voters with typically lower turnout rates, such as young people, communities of color, members of our armed forces, and New Americans, and ensure that as many Minnesotans as possible use their vote as their voice this November,” Simon said. For more details, go to sos.state.mn.us.

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Early concept for Hennepin redesign gets green light The City Council’s Transportation & Public Works Committee has signed off on a preliminary redesign concept for Hennepin Avenue — one that would put the street on a slight road diet and include bus stops between the road and bike lanes. The design is in its early stages and project planners will return to the Council for additional approvals when a more detailed design has been completed. Public works staff are seeking $7 million in federal funding for the $15.7 million project, said Simon Blenski, a city transportation planner. The redesign project for Hennepin between Washington Avenue and 12th Street is slated for 2020. The concept calls for a four-lane roadway, protected bike lanes, sidewalks and bus stations that would have stops located on islands between traffic and the bike lanes. Blenski said Metro Transit plans to test out the bus station concept on 7th Street with a pilot project. Blenski said it’s just an idea at this point — nothing has been finalized. “It is a new design that we think could work on Hennepin, but we’re definitely going to be looking to our peer cities for their experiences with it,” he said.

A bus station island bordered by a bike lane and the street. Submitted photo Nine of the 11 left turn lanes on the corridor would also be removed. Northbound left turn lanes will remain at 3rd Street and Washington. An estimated 7,600 pedestrians, 1,500 bicyclists, 8,100 transit riders and 18,600 motor vehicles travel on the corridor each day, according to a report presented to the Council committee. The full Council will vote on the redesign concept June 17.

The city experienced a big increase in solar installations and Home Energy Squad visits in 2015, according to the first progress report on the city’s new Clean Energy Partnership. The Clean Energy Partnership is a collaboration among the city, Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy. The partnership is working on advancing the city’s environmental goals, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. The partnership has also established eight metrics to track the city’s clean energy goals, including annual greenhouse gas emissions, commercial and residential building energy use, local renewable energy use and Home Energy Squad visits, among other things. Gayle Prest, the city’s sustainability manager, said data collected will help focus the partnership’s work. “We’re going to look at this data to drive change in the city,” she said. The most recent data available on citywide greenhouse gas emissions indicated that levels were down 7.5 percent compared to 2006, Prest said. As for other highlights, there were 92 solar installations in Minneapolis in 2015 compared to 56 in 2014. The partnership also promoted Xcel and CenterPoint’s Home Energy Squad’s services, resulting in a 68 percent increase in visits between

2014 and 2015. The Home Energy Squad helps homeowners find ways to improve energy efficiency, such as installing a programmable thermostat and LED bulbs, among other things. Xcel and CenterPoint Energy also spent more than $1 million to help low-income customers improve energy efficiency in their homes. The city is also collaborating with Siemens Corp. to analyze energy consumption patterns and figure out the best way to tackle its environmental goals. Buildings account for about 63 percent of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions and vehicles about 37 percent, according to a recent report Seimens Corp. made to the City Council. Julia Thayne, director of urban development for Siemens, told the Council that Minneapolis appears to have the most potential to reach its clean energy goals compared to other cities the organization has analyzed. The city’s Clean Energy Partnership has been recognized nationally. The White House named Minneapolis one of 16 Climate Action Champions, citing the partnership and the city’s Climate Action Plan.

City planning street café pilot program Already narrow sidewalks become nearly impassible with the inclusion of a sidewalk cafe. This vital space will soon be freed with Minneapolis’ Street Cafe pilot program. A street cafe takes the parklet concept, first introduced in the city in 2014, and expands it to table service. Parklets are public patio structures that extend the sidewalk into the roadway and provide seating, bike parking, planters and

public art. City ordinances prevent restaurants from serving directly to people in a parklet. Street cafes are similar to parklets but serve as an extension of the restaurant or cafe and won’t be open to the public. The street cafe program will begin as a pilot this August with five initial locations and five more added in 2017. Lacy Shelby, a principal urban designer for the city, said the pilot program is a way to test, prototype, and collect data on its success.

After the pilot, the program would open to all 240 restaurants with licensed sidewalk cafes in Minneapolis, considering they meet the necessary regulations and permits. Street cafes and parklets must be in an unrestricted parking lane in the front of a restaurant and level with the sidewalk. Businesses are also responsible for design, construction, insurance, maintenance and installation costs.

Street cafes and parklets have been successful in other cities, including Seattle (streateries), Portland (street seats, New York and San Diego (curb cafes). Parklets started as a pilot in 2014 with 3 owned by the city. That expanded to 10 by 2016 with a refined, application-based program.

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Park Board to solicit new developer for Scherer site

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Park Board considers design team for Water Works Damon Farber Landscape Architects and HGA have been recommended to be the team to handle the design for an ambitious new riverfront park. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will consider appointing the team to lead the final design and cultural resource consulting for the first phase of Water Works, a two-phase roughly $27 million overhaul of the Mississippi riverfront in the Mill District. Commissioners were scheduled to vote on the selection June 15, after this issue went to press. The team, led by Damon Farber, was one of eight respondents to a request for proposals from the board and the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, which is handling a $15 million fundraising effort for the project. Water Works would transform one of the city’s most popular parks, the Mill Ruins Park, with a new visitor center and café pavilion near the 3rd Avenue Bridge, along with new river access for canoes and kayaks, water features and outdoor gathering spaces. It is the signature project under RiverFirst, a 20-year vision of ambitious park improvement projects around the city, such as at Scherer Park, Gateway Park and a greenway on 22nd Avenue Northeast. The Park Board acquired the riverfront land roughly 30 years ago. The area sees about 2.5 million visitors annually.

The Park Board will overhaul a roughly four-block stretch of the downtown riverfront as part of Water Works. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board “It is very gratifying for the Minneapolis Park Board to be on the cusp of realizing a 30-year vision for the Mill Ruins Park area and its magnetic features of St. Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge,” said Jayne Miller, park superintendent, in a statement. “The active partnership between the Park Board and the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, through nearly five years of intensive design work and comprehensive community engagement, has made this tremendous milestone possible. We’re very excited about what the future holds for the Central Riverfront.”

Before the mezzanine phase begins, the Park Board will demolish part of the Fuji Ya building, which has sat vacant for nearly 25 years on the site of the former 1878 Standard Mill, at West River Parkway and 1st Street South. The $10.9 million mezzanine phase is slated to begin next year and will include a new mezzanine lawn, play spaces and outdoor classrooms that could host visitors. That is expected to be completed in 2019. The project is slated for completion in 2023.

Park staff are looking to draw in new developers for a riverfront park site in Northeast Minneapolis. This summer the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will field new partners for a private development on nearly 4 acres of the 11.7-acre Scherer site. Last year commissioners rejected a proposal from Graco Minnesota Inc. to expand its adjacent headquarters onto the site. The industrial abrasive manufacturer proposed two 50,000-squarefoot office buildings and a 133-stall surface parking lot for the riverfront land. Now the Park Board is back to square one with developing the piece of land, known as parcel “D,” with a private project. After accepting letters of interest, staff expect to recommend a new developer partner sometime in early fall with work to identify to interested tenants later that season. Then a developer will come back to the board with a concept design later this year, according to a schedule shared with commissioners in June. The preliminary schedule has construction wrapping up sometime around summer or fall of 2018. “I hope that we get, for this unique and first-time-ever project, a unique and first-time-ever development,” said Park Board President Liz Wielinski.

Playground, wading pool to open in Hi-View Park The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will celebrate the grand opening of a new playground and wading pool in Hi-View Park in Northeast Minneapolis on June 20.

The project updates the park’s aging playground, first built in 1952 and last upgraded 16 years ago, and its wading pool, originally constructed back in 1977. President Liz Wielinski (District 1) and

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Solhem Companies is planning a 124unit market-rate apartment building in place of a surface lot in the North Loop. Submitted image

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com When Acme Comedy Co. owner Louis Lee saw plans for a new apartment building down the block, he wasn’t laughing. For him, the project, proposed for a nearby surface parking lot, is another dust up regarding the amount of parking in the high-demand North Loop neighborhood. Lee said with fewer available spots in the area, he faces losing business and is now considering relocating the landmark comedy club elsewhere. Curt Gunsbury’s Solhem Companies is proposing to build an approximately sixstory, 124-unit apartment building on the surface lot at 721 N. 1st St. across from the Star Tribune’s printing facility. Lee said the project would shrink the amount of affordable, conveniently located parking that the 70,000 annually who attend the Acme, many of them from neighboring suburbs, have historically relied on for the past 25 years. In recent years, however, increased demand as threatened the stepping-stone comedy venue, he said. “Parking is always a problem here, but it’s not huge enough to turn people off. Throwing a curve like this can easily throw people off big time,” he told The Journal. Lee said he was not aware of the project until recently when Matt Janzen, an Itasca II resident, informed him. Janzen created a Change.org petition opposing the project that was widely circulated thanks to the Acme’s social media accounts. Over the span of a few weeks it amassed more than 4,500 signatures with the help of several popular comedians and their followers who shared it on Twitter. The project has been in the works for several months, and was considered by the City Planning Commission back in January. That month, board members of the North Loop Neighborhood Association also unanimously supported it. The petition shocked Gunsbury. The 120-stall lot, which he has controlled since last fall, is dedicated for Gunsbury’s tenants in Itasca V, a 42,000-square-foot office building across the street.

The North Loop’s Acme Comedy Co. is well-known as a stepping stone venue for both local and national comics. Photo by Eric Best

“We were pretty taken aback,” Gunsbury said. “I believe this is not a problem we created.” Acme’s landlord, Schafer Richardson, has a larger, 156-space surface lot closer to the comedy club. Maureen Michalski, Schafer Richardson’s director of development, said there aren’t plans to develop the lot. There’s also a smaller 73-car lot across from the Minnesota Opera. How much the loss of Gunsbury’s parking lot will affect the Acme is unclear. Gunsbury said the lot is leased to office tenants and other monthly contract parkers, though spaces may be available in the evening during Acme show times when contract parkers aren’t using them. One of his tenants, a 24-hour overnight legal document business, may have up to 200 contract workers at any given time, so hourly spaces are rare, he added. “Whatever is there that Acme has used it’s definitely not always available,” he said. In addition to 150 spaces for residents of the 721 N. 1st St. development, Gunsbury is planning to have 70 dedicated spots for office tenants, which required a variance to allow for additional parking. Solhem, a North Loop developer, has more than 300 units built or in construction within a few blocks of Acme, which Gunsbury described as a “neighborhood treasure.” Lee said the area is due for more parking,

especially on weekends when audiences like Minnesota Twins fans, theatergoers at The Lab Theater and those at the 275-capacity Acme compete for on-street parking and nearby lots. It’s especially an issue for Acme, Lee said, because its audience is nearly all from suburbs or the outskirts of the Twin Cities and needs conveniently located parking — otherwise there are other easier, more affordable choices. “Convenience is most important to them, especially with six months or more where the weather itself is not nice for anybody who wants to walk. And those are the busiest times for me,” he said. “I’m in a business that when a customer thinks it’s not convenient or too expensive they’ll quit coming.” The area is less than ideal for a comedy club, he said. Acme has relied on being a destination so it doesn’t require a high-traffic area in downtown Minneapolis to attract an audience. And back when it opened a quarter of a century ago, the North Loop didn’t draw in the same attention, he added. Lee said relocating would cost at least half a million dollars. He’d also be leaving behind Acme’s original 15,000-square-foot home, which Lee said is the best laid out comedy club in the country. Lee is currently discussing solutions with city planning staff, Gunsbury and others, including using valet services and contracting out parking in a 73-stall lot that Gunsbury

owns about a block away, which Gunsbury said he’d be willing to have Acme use. More meters could also improve turnover of street parking. But for Lee, none of these are longterm solutions to Acme’s parking needs. Janzen has been in discussion with Council Member Jacob Frey, whose ward includes the North Loop, to look into constructing a joint parking ramp and green space in the area to alleviate parking issues. Janzen appealed a Heritage Preservation Commission decision in May regarding the proposal, which the City Council’s Zoning & Planning Committee denied. “Parking throughout the North Loop is starting to become a nightmare,” he said. “It’s becoming clear to me that the city’s mentality is ‘build, baby, build,’ and they don’t have the infrastructure in place to support it.” Janzen said he and other Itasca residents, several of which spoke against the project during the June 9 committee meeting, plan to speak at a City Planning Commission meeting on June 27. To Gunsbury, local demand for parking is lessening each year. “Over time as the North Loop becomes more walkable there’s actually more people that actually live and work there that aren’t driving,” Gunsbury said, “We’re building a building that’s going to last 100, 200 years. We’re not going to design parking that’s going to sit vacant based on long-term trends. We want to right-size it and not over-invest in parking.” Lee said he sees the issue as whether Acme fits into a city that’s growing less dominated by cars. “It’s all about planning,” he said. “I will try to survive as long as I can.” If the project is approved, Gunsbury plans to break ground later this summer with about a year-long construction. “Frankly, there should be a way for all of us to benefit from this rather than to feel oppressed by it or like business is being shut down. It should actually be a really great benefit,” he said.

journalmpls.com / June 16–29, 2016 11 FROM ALATUS TOWER / PAGE 1 limestone which pays tribute to nearby buildings, such as the Pillsbury A Mill. Supporters of the project said it will bring needed density to the neighborhood, expand the tax base and bring a new modern landmark to the riverfront. Opponents of the project, however, led by the group Neighbors for East Bank Livability, said it would dwarf the historic properties surrounding it. Guidelines for the St. Anthony Falls Historic District call for height limits of eight stories. They also advocated for preserving the St. Anthony Commercial Club building as part of the development. Bird advocates also spoke out against the project, saying it would be harmful to birds because as proposed it lacks bird-safe glass. City Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3), who represents the area where the project would be built, thanked constituents for having a thoughtful and respectful debate about the proposed tower. “There is the ability to retain historic buildings while simultaneously creating a character of our own in 2016,” he said. He noted that height limits in cities like San Francisco have put pressure on the housing market, leading to skyrocketing real estate prices. City Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) said she would like to see more tall residential buildings along the riverfront and other parts of downtown. The additional development would take pressure off neighborhoods near downtown facing higher density development. She said people made similar arguments when the Carlyle was proposed for the other side of the riverfront. “The Carlyle was a good addition to our downtown,” she said. The Council committee heard from a large number of supporters and opponents of the project during the public hearing June 9. Arvonne Fraser, a longtime resident of the area, said the neighborhood needs more density, especially along transit corridors like Central Avenue. “The great thing about this proposal is that it combines commercial and housing,” she said. Scott Parkin, owner of Verve Reality who also conducts historic walking tours of the neighborhood, acknowledged the challenge facing city leaders — encouraging growth while still honoring the city’s history. “There’s nothing wrong with a tall

building,” he said. “They can add texture to the neighborhood. … Just because a tall building might be built in the district does not take away necessarily from the very important points of interest that are in the neighborhood.” He said Alatus’ proposed tower would be “an expression of modernity and progress” for the city. Bill McReavy Jr., president of WashburnMcReavy, a family-owned funeral home business that sold its property at 200 Central to Alatus, said the family spent years contemplating the best decision for the site and ultimately believed the developer would be the best choice. “We wanted to put it in someone’s hands that was going to do something really extraordinary and special,” he said. “[The condo tower] will be a great asset for the city of Minneapolis.” As for the opposition, Bill Griffith, an attorney representing Neighbors for East Bank Livability, said the group would like to work with Alatus to “right size” the project for the neighborhood and find a way to incorporate the St. Anthony Commercial Club building into the new development. “To approve this project, you really have to set aside your regulatory framework,” he said, noting the historic guidelines for height limits in the district. Erich Wunderlich, a Marcy Holmes resident, said the commercial club should be preserved.

Illustrations of Alatus’ proposed condo tower planned for the east bank. Images courtesy of ESG Architects “Following the developer’s logic will further erode what’s left and will set a precedent that none of these buildings regardless of their historic significance worthy of preservation,” he said.

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200 Central The City Council’s Zoning & Planning Committee has overturned the Heritage Preservation Commission’s decision to deny approvals for a 40-story condo tower project in an area just northeast of downtown Minneapolis. Alatus has been planning the approximately 280-unit development over the past year for the site on Central Avenue now home to the Washburn-McReavy Funeral Home and St. Anthony Athletic Club. The committee also gave its approval to demolish the aging buildings within three months to move forward with construction. A full Council vote is slated for June 17. Alatus is planning to break ground later this year.

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Montage Schafer Richardson is less than a month out from beginning construction on the legendary Nye’s Polonaise Room bar and restaurant, and now it has unveiled a branding for the 72-unit project that would contain some of the Nicollet Island-East Bank landmark. Montage will be a six-story apartment complex that will feature two of the Nye’s buildings, as well as new construction and infill that have been scaled back from the 29-story tower that was originally proposed. As part of the project Schafer Richardson is also planning one of the city’s first car-stacking garages that will more eﬃciently use the small site.

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Hennepin reconstruction City Council’s Transportation & Public Works Committee has signed off on a preliminary redesign concept for Hennepin Avenue — one that would put the street on a slight road diet and include bus stops between the road and bike lanes. The design is in its early stages and project planners will return to the Council for additional approvals when a more detailed design has been completed. Though the redesign project for Hennepin between Washington Avenue and 12th Street is slated for 2020, public works staff are seeking $7 million in federal funding for the $15.7 million project and need to finalize basic details of the project early.

PORTLAND & 4TH RYAN COMPANIES & 6th, was last sold for $205.5 million to the current owner, San Francisco-based Shorenstein Properties. The company expects to receive bids around $300 million, according to Real Estate Alert. The complex, built in 1983, was last renovated for $15 million in 2005 and is the fourth-tallest tower in Minneapolis. Target Corp. leases a majority of the oﬃce portion.

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@mosphere Schafer Richardson has unveiled branding for a potential 11-story office development in the North Loop. The development, dubbed @mosphere, will add about 200,000 square feet to the hot office market, as well as about 4,500 square feet of street-level restaurant and commercial space. The proposal would replace the current Weather-Rite building on 5th Street. Maureen Michalski, Schafer Richardson’s director of development, said they’ve begun marketing the space and will move forward with the entitlement process once they’ve signed major tenants. The project’s website is mosphereoffice.com.

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Marshall Apartments* CPM Companies has submitted plans for a 70-unit apartment mixed-use apartment building near the Grain Belt Apartments in Northeast Minneapolis’ Sheridan neighborhood. The development team has submitted preliminary plans to the City Planning Commission’s Committee of the Whole for the six-story project that would replace an auto sales and repair shop at Marshall & 13th. The proposal features nearly 3,000 square feet for a restaurant tenant, a “skylounge” on the roof and a workout room. For parking, the team is

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Target Center renovation Mayor Betsy Hodges hailed in the oﬃcial start to a nearly $129 million renovation of the Target Center at a ceremony June 8. The 18-month project will build out new suite offerings, a new exterior and the venue’s sound system, lighting, restrooms and seating. Mortenson, in association with Thor Construction, is managing construction for the project and was the lead contractor when the venue was completed in 1990. The city-owned Target Center will eventually shutdown temporarily for the work. A completion is slated for the fall of 2017.

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Commons The Commons, the 4.2-acre park in Downtown East, is now taking shape as stakeholders prepare to open U.S. Bank Stadium next month. Trees, landscaping and other construction updates now have the site resembling a basic park, which Ryan Companies is set to hand over to the City of Minneapolis this summer. The City Council recently approved a $600,000 agreement with the Downtown Improvement District to operate the park on an interim basis until a long-term plan is finalized. Green Minneapolis, the nonprofit parks conservancy spearheading fundraising for the park, is expected to eventually handle operations.

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The Greenway, aglow in June They’ll be partying on the Midtown Greenway until well after dark June 18 for the 5th-annual Greenway Glow. The Greenway Glow is both the biggest event of the year on the Midtown Greenway and the most important fundraiser for the Midtown Greenway Coalition, said Soren Jensen, the coalition’s executive director. The main event is the annual community arts festival that runs 7 p.m.–1 a.m., but the Glow also includes a 10-mile after-dark ride and 5-kilometer twilight fun run or walk. “It’s going to be a great night on the Greenway,” Jensen said. The arts festival includes more than two dozen art installations and performances at

various points along the 5.5-mile-long nonmotorized transportation corridor. The free After-Glow party runs 10:30 p.m.–1 a.m. in Eastlake Craft Brewy and Taco Cat at the Midtown Global Market, the dining and shopping destination that is one of the main attractions lining the Greenway. Those with an early bedtime can check out the Family Glow event scheduled to take place on the Cepro green space, located between 10th and 11th avenues near the Freewheel Midtown Bike Center. The arts festival and related events are free and open to the public, but the coalition is asking for a $10 freewill donation to help support its work. Cyclists, many of them in costumes and

bicycles decked-out with lights, take off at 9 p.m. for the Glow Ride. It’s an after-dark joy ride and not a race for the cyclists, who must pay a registration fee and agree to raise $75 in pledges for the coalition. In exchange, they get two free beers and food from Taco Cat at After-Glow party, plus other treats and glowin-the-dark prizes for the ride. It’s the same deal for participants in the 5-kilometer fun run or walk. Both are meant to be team events, although solo participants are welcome, too. Midtown Greenway Coalition members get free admission to the arts festival and $10 off registration fees for either the run or ride. Jensen said between 100 and 200 people

typically register for the events, adding that the Greenway Glow is even more important for the coalition this year with the cancellation of the annual Tour de Fat bicycle and beer festival hosted by New Belgium Brewing. Proceeds from past Tour de Fat events were shared between several local cycling nonprofits, including the coalition. The coalition, which works to protect and improve the Greenway, aims to raise $30,000 with this year’s Greenway Glow. For more information, or to register, go to midtowngreenway.org.

Minneapolis joins ‘resilient’ cities network Minneapolis was selected in May to join a global network of 100 “resilient” cities preparing for the opportunities and challenges of 21st century urban living. More than 325 cities around the world applied to join the group, known as 100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation or simply 100RC. Member cities get support from the network to combat a wide range of stressors, from the natural disasters that can suddenly strike

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cities to long-term challenges like reducing pollution, maintaining or improving transit networks and combatting inequality. “Resilience is about surviving and thriving in a world that is increasingly imbalanced,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges, announcing Minneapolis’ selection at a press conference May 26. Hodges was joined by representatives from the Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paulbased clean energy nonprofit Fresh Energy,

Minneapolis Community Environmental Advisory Commission and Xcel Energy. Inclusion in the 100RC network means Minneapolis will be able to access grant funding to pay for a chief resilience officer. 100RC also provides member cities with tools and other supports to improve its resiliency in a variety of areas, including infrastructure, technology, finance and land use. 100RC launched several years ago with support of the The Rockefeller Foundation.

The first 32 cities joined the network in 2013. Another 35 cities were added in 2014. Minneapolis is a member of the third cohort, which brings the network up to a total of 100 cities, including Buenos Aires, Nairobi and Tel Aviv. For more information on 100RC, go to 100resilientcities.org.

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VOICES

What are you most afraid of?

Photos and interviews by Stephanie Glaros

SHON RODRIGUEZ, MINNEAPOLIS The fear of failing has held me back from getting a place of my own. Just the fear of growing up and becoming an adult, having all that responsibility. I’m technically homeless and I don’t have a job right now. I’m couch-surfing. It’s not ideal, but I’m making it work. It’s hard to get a job without a place, but then you need money to get a place. It’s hard to do one without the other. My grandmother raised my siblings and me, and I wasn’t the best kid to raise. I was stealing from her. I wouldn’t listen to her. I was always making things tough for her. Mostly I was angry, ‘cause I when I was a kid I lost my mother and my dad left. I didn’t feel like I had anybody. My grandmother could only take so much and she kicked me out. I don’t blame her for anything. She’s my hero, and I love her so much. But it’s been a tough road since then. How did you lose your mom? She passed away. She had a stroke and fell and hit her head. I was 7 years old. It was very confusing, but it made me who I am today. I’m a very understanding person, and I get that things just happen. You should live your life to the fullest, but you have to be smart about it, too. And I haven’t really been the smartest. But I’m still living life, and I’m still happy every day. I find the silver lining in everything. You have to try to be that way in these types of situations.

ROSA BOGAR, MINNEAPOLIS Most of the time, nothing (laughs). Really. I don’t have that much fear. Every day is a challenge and I just face that. I’m a person who lives in the moment. I guess after you get older you feel that way. I don’t have time to fear. That’s how I look at life. I didn’t always do that. I would always be fearful of things when I was a single mother. Wondering how I was going to raise my two sons being African-American and living in North Minneapolis. Those were the fears I had when they were teenagers, but they’re grown men today. I never had to do a lot of the things that so many single mothers had to do. Go to jail to get their kids out, or juvenile. Go see them in prison. I didn’t have to do none of those things. And that’s a blessing. How did they manage to avoid that? One of the things I give credit to is a place called Hospitality House. That was a community center, like The Way. They say that Prince spent a lot of time at The Way. For me, it was Hospitality House. Every time my sons would go there, I knew they would be safe. Those places protected our children. Once I knew my kids were at Hospitality House, I knew I had nothing to worry about.

HILLARY OLSON, ST. PAUL Probably losing people in my life. Growing up, my biggest fear was that my parents weren’t gonna be alive, because I had older parents. But I lost my dad four years ago. That was my biggest fear, and it happened. Losing people is a big change in your life. You have to adjust. You always grow, but it’s different. I think when you have death that happens close to you, you don’t romanticize it. I really dislike when it’s romanticized. I don’t fear dying myself, but I know that it hurts losing people and that it changes you. How did losing your dad change you? I think it made me grow up, and it made me value my parents a lot sooner than maybe I would have. I immediately started thinking about the value of people in my life. Because I’ve had death close to me, it has really made me appreciate the day-to-day.

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Voices

Ask the Nurse Practitioner / By Michelle Napral

ARE THE MOLES ON MY SKIN SOMETHING I NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT?

My dad was diagnosed with skin cancer and has had biopsies and treatments for his skin. I have a lot of moles and seem to get more each summer. Should I be concerned? It’s great question, a growing problem and a topic that more people should care about. More people have skin cancer than all other cancers combined. About one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime. Nearly 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have skin cancer at least once, yet it’s a disease that is largely preventable. There are different types of skin cancer including squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and, the most deadly skin cancer, melanoma. Fortunately, there are ways to prevent these cancers entirely and catch them early. People with many moles, fair skin, lightcolored hair or eyes are at higher risk for skin cancer. If you’ve had severe sunburns in the past, you’re also at higher risk. And, family history — if your dad had skin cancer at a young age — can be an indicator of cancer risk. Anyone can get skin cancer, regardless of skin color.

Ban tanning Because it’s so critically important, let’s start with prevention. To start, avoid tanning beds — period. There’s no such thing as a “base tan” or a “healthy tan.” Tanning beds drastically increase your risk of skin cancer, just as a bad sunburn increases your risk of skin cancer in the future. After a long Minnesota winter, we all want to be out in the sunshine. But protect your skin. Anyone older than six months of age should wear a water-resistant 30 or higher SPF sunscreen, as well as lip balm

with sun protection. When lathering your skin in sunscreen, a general rule of thumb is to use at least one ounce. In other words, a full shot glass! Reapply sunscreen every few hours. In addition, wear tightly woven clothing that covers your skin, and wear a widebrimmed hat to protect your face, ears, neck and scalp. (The new UV-proof clothing is fine but certainly not necessary.) UV rays from the sun are strongest between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Even when it’s cloudy, skin can be exposed to 80 percent of the sun’s harmful rays. And here is the good news. If you heed this advice, by midlife, you will likely look much younger than your sun-worshipping peers.

Be a detective The other key to cancer prevention is routine skin checks of moles and suspicious markings. Most moles are not harmful, but some can change into cancer. There are many types, sizes and shapes, although most moles are brown, dome-shaped, and smooth with clear edges. It’s important to monitor these markings because some moles can turn into melanoma. The disease is usually curable if caught early, but latestage melanoma is life threatening. At our clinic, we tell patients to follow the “ABCDEs” of skin checks. Check each mole for these concerning patterns: Asymmetry: When one half looks different than the other half

Diameter size: When it is bigger than a pencil eraser

When lathering your skin in sunscreen, a general rule of thumb is to use at least one ounce. In other words, a full shot glass!

Border irregularity: When the borders are not clearly defined and are irregular Color Variation: When color varies from one area to another with variation in shades of brown, black or blue

Evolving: When the mole changes in size, shape or color If you have a questionable mole, take a picture of it. Then compare the images month-to-month. If there are changes, new skin growths, bleeding, itching, or pain, it’s best to consult a specialist. A biopsy can be performed on suspicious areas to test for skin cancer. If you have general concerns about moles and skin cancer, consult your primary care provider.

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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The Draft Horse in Northeast’s Food Building. Submitted photos

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THE DRAFT HORSE 117 14th Ave. NE 612-208-1476 (no reservations taken)

By Carla Waldemar When it comes to tracking charisma, train your eyes across the river: Northeast has become our Brooklyn. Artists have scored affordable working spaces, indie enterprises are flourishing, and so’s the food scene. Merging all three in a perfect storm of creativity is the Food Building on NE Marshall. The visionary behind the enterprise is that crazy-smart pioneer of all things tasty, Kieran Folliard. He bought the building to serve as a foodbiz accelerator, whose tenants include Red Table Meat Company and Lone Grazer Creamery, supplying restaurant and home kitchens along with The Draft Horse, a casual café, invoking those fine products and others of local origin on its anti-fancy menu. The room looks as if it’s been there forever—well, because it has. It served as part of a horse vet’s operation (thus the name) back in the day, and currently stables a saloon-type set-up of cooks scrambling behind a diner counter and a row of tables crammed below the art on the opposite wall. The menu favors larger parties (though seating them may require creativity) with plates of mixed meats and cheeses ($12–

$14) as starters and platters “serving 2-3” of short rib, brick chicken and roast pork as mains ($20–$24). They’re virtually ungarnished, so slide your gaze to the list of sides ($3–$10), as we did, to build your dinner. We started with the house salad, a feisty bed of arugula bathed in an equally robust breath of mint vinaigrette (the combo is like eating spring). Green peas, Lone Grazer cheese and a translucent scroll of speck (more full-flavored than its sib, prosciutto) complete the composition. Next, a lusty heap of pork ribs—meaty, moist and ideally crusty, naked except for a slither of pork demi. We paired them with a generous plate of charred Brussels sprouts tossed with Fischer Farm bacon and red-wine vinaigrette. Perfect (and enough to line our doggie bags). Calling our name, too, the gratin of cauliflower richly robed in Lone Grazer cheese sauce. Hard to resist an order of mashed potatoes with bacon ($7) and gravy ($4), but we did, saving room instead for one of the kitchen’s pot pies ($13): short rib, roasted veggies or, our selection, Kadejan Farms’ chicken: tender white meat suited up with

A sampling of Draft Horse dishes.

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Mill City Cooks / By Jenny Heck

GET GRILLING!

hat is the best part of summer? In my opinion, it’s pulling the cover off the grill and getting her cleaned and shiny for the summer! No Minnesota summer is complete without lots of meals made on the grill and eaten outside with family and friends. Whether you’re at the cabin, in the backyard, or on the condo patio, you need an arsenal of chef-approved grilling recipes to complete the summer. As most chefs would tell you, grilling is simply about highlighting the delicious flavors of fresh ingredients—and that is true with meats more now than ever! Shopping for meat in the store can be confusing—so many labels and certifications. Enter Mike Braucher and his son Brandon, owners of Sunshine Harvest Farm, a fourth-generation family farm located in Webster, Minn. Sunshine Harvest Farm believes in humane treatment of its livestock, and they never use hormones, chemicals or GMO feed in their production. Mike and Brandon offer a large variety of pasture-raised beef, lamb, chicken, pork, brats, and the freshest eggs your have ever tasted at the Mill City Farmers Market every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

MILL CITY FARMERS MARKET The market is located in the Mill District at 704 S. 2nd St. and is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ever wonder how to grill the perfect steak? Market partner Mary Jane Miller created the following recipe for “Grilled Sirloin with Market Vegetables and Garlic Scape Chimichurri” for the Mill City Farmers Market’s free weekly cooking demonstration, Mill City Cooks. Join the class at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 18 for Brews & BBQ to learn even more technique for summer grilling from Campus Club Executive Chef Beth Jones! Plus, the Mill City Farmers Market will be celebrating Father’s Day with free samples of Surly beer, hops growing demonstrations from local hops farm Might Axe Hops, and much more! Find more information about market events at millcityfarmersmarket.org.

The Perfect Grilled Sirloin with Market Vegetables and Garlic Scape Chimichurri Recipe by Mary Jane Miller Ingredients 1 lb grass-fed sirloin from Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest Farm Olive oil Salt pepper to taste Chimichurri Sauce: ½ bunch fresh Italian parsley, washed and stems removed 1 bunch fresh cilantro, washed ½ cup olive oil 1/3 cup white wine vinegar 4 green garlic scapes, washed

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Where We Live

A JOURNAL COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING GREAT COMMUNITY CAUSES

Tubman

Staff at the Tubman Center in Minnepolis support women, children and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse and mental health. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

Tubman Center provides broad range of services for people in crisis

Forging strong connections Jose Torres, 12, started Tubman Center’s Inspiring Youth Program after missing classes at school for about three months. His mentor in the program, Hans Olson, helped him find a stable school and overcome multiple stressors, including eviction and in-family fighting. Olson has met with Torres every week for the past year, helping him become more outgoing and confident. The Inspiring Youth program is one of 23 Tubman Center offers out of its youth and family services department. All told, the Minneapolis nonprofit serves tens of thousands of women, children and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse and mental health each year, providing them with a variety of services at no cost to them. The roots of Tubman Center go back more than 40 years to the foundation of Chrysalis, A Center for Women, which was founded in 1974. That organization has since merged with the Harriet Tubman Center, the Family Violence Network and ElderCare Rights Alliance. The organization provides shelter and housing, counseling and therapy, elder-abuse resources, sexual-exploitation resources, legal services and more to clients. It serves more than 40,000 people in Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington counties and the surrounding areas each year, providing more than 20 percent of shelter beds for Minnesota women and children experiencing family violence. At least 22 women and three men died from domestic violence in 2015 and at least nine family members and friends were murdered, according to a Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women report. One in three teens experience dating violence, and Location one out of five girls and one of 10 boys will be sexually victimized by the time they reach adulthood, according to Tubman Center. 3111 1st Ave. S. Tubman offers shelter and a 24-hour crisis line for people experiencing this sort of violence. It has 128 shelter beds in its two Twins Cities area facilities, including beds specifically for young victims of sex trafficking. Contact The center offers these clients a wide range of counseling and therapy services, including dialectical behavior therapy to help 612-825-3333 people regulate emotions. “We’re a full on mental health clinic,” said Birgit Kelly, associate director of clinical services. “People can come here and get most Website if not all of their mental health needs.” tubman.org Kelly is in charge of the dialectical behavior therapy program, which served more than 125 people from October 2015 through March. It’s an intensive outpatient program that helps people who may be highly sensitive to emotional situations. Year Founded “We teach new ways of dealing with those intense feelings,” she said. “I see it as getting back on the trajectory of development 1976 that we were meant to have.” Tubman’s youth programs have a similar mission, working to help kids overcome trauma and utilize their strengths. Tamara Stark, director of youth and family services, said the Inspiring Youth program, for example, is designed to be holistic in building on the potential of young people. Youth in the program meet with a Tubman staff person once a week. Together they help develop a plan to help kids through any issues they may be having, from at school to at home. “We really try to help people see the strengths they have,” Stark said. “Those are going to be what helps propel them forward.” Olson said developing relationships is a primary factor in bringing about positive change. The Inspiring Youth program allows for kids’ voices to be heard, he said, and helps bring about an increased sense of belonging and identity. “It’s been great to see the transformational power that comes from strong connections and sense of belonging,” he said. That’s been the case for Torres, who said he made a lot of new friends at his school this year. He said Olson takes care of him and his family and that another Inspiring Youth staffer helped their family when their power was cut off. Olson, too, has noticed a difference. He said the fifth-grader started taking guitar lessons with his sister and even attended a music camp last summer, things he may not have done before. “It’s fun to see him come out of his shell,” Olson said. “Having someone who is consistent can help make (youth) feel more confident.”

By the numbers

1,459

Number of clients the center served in its mental and chemical health programs from October 2014 through September 2015.

4,171

Number of clients who received legal services from Tubman in 2015.

8,971

Number of youth who participated in the center’s six-week school-based violence prevention curriculum.

40,000

Number of people Tubman center helps annually.

Number of women in Minnesota who died from domestic abuse in 2015.

What you can do Volunteer as an advocate, special events committee member, gardening enthusiast or more. A complete list of volunteer opportunities is available at tubman.org/ get-involved/volunteer.html. Donate financially or by providing goods or professional services. Attend one of Tubman Center’s special events, such as its 23rd annual Wing Ding event Aug. 16 at The Depot in Minneapolis.

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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The June 12 vigil in Loring Park drew about 2,000 people. Photos by Sarah McKenzie

FROM LORING PARK VIGIL / PAGE 1 celebration — celebrating who we are, celebrating that we are together and are united,” she said, urging people to continue to celebrate during Pride month. “This coming together is what our community is about.” Gov. Mark Dayton also expressed his outrage over the tragedy. “Words fail at a time like this. They seem so futile and so inadequate, but Scott [Dibble] said it very well — the beast who massacred these innocent people was not acting on behalf of any political cause. He beat his wife. He massacred 50 innocent people — maybe more,” he said. “If there is a god or if there is an Allah, he will never find out because he will be doomed to eternal damnation for what he did to humanity, what he did to all of you in the LGBTQ community, and what he did to all of us as Americans who share our lives together, who embrace one another — embrace our similarities and our differences.” Phillipe Cunningham, a senior policy aide for Mayor Betsy Hodges, read a statement from the mayor who was traveling and couldn’t attend the vigil. She expressed love and support for the GLBT, Muslim and Latino communities. “A final word about gun violence. It must stop. Whether the victims are a grandmother sitting in her car or young people in a gay club in Orlando, many of whom were people of color, communities are suffering, cities are suffering — all of us our suffering from gun violence,” she said. “Let’s be clear: this disease is our disease. It is the responsibility of all of us in every neighborhood, city and state in our country to end this disease — to end gun violence and the easy availability of guns that make gun violence possible.” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the country must come together, embrace peace and reject hate. “In this land we cannot allow this tragedy to divide our communities. Therefore, today we stand together against hatred, violence and demonization of entire communities. This act of an individual is criminal, extreme and has no faith or values,” he said. Mike Griffin of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change fired up the crowd and reminded people that many of the victims were people of color. “I sat on my couch for hours today and I felt in my soul that I was being attacked. As a black man, as a queer man in this city, I’m being attacked by both sides — attacked because of my race,” he said. “… We face discrimination in our workplace. We face discrimination in our schools. We are also fighting for our queerness — our identity.” Senior Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman of Temple Israel called for understanding and open minds. “Today I look out and I see all of us with broken hearts — broken hearts that will give root to something in a world that we hope will be a reality and that is a world that is flexible and understanding; a world that is full of love and care,” she said. Dibble thanked the crowd for showing their support for the victims. “Today a hater wrote a page in the history book. Tomorrow we write the next page of history and that’s going to be a page filled with love and grace and courage and resilience and determination. We will be stronger for this,” he said. “… Lets celebrate in this space in two weeks.” The Twin Cities Pride Festival will be held in Loring Park June 25-26. The Pride Parade starts at 11 a.m. at 3rd & Hennepin on June 26. Dot Belstler, executive director of Twin Cities Pride, said organizers are working

Today I look out and I see all of us with broken hearts — broken hearts that will give root to something in a world that we hope will be a reality and that is a world that is flexible and understanding; a world that is full of love and care. — Senior Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman of Temple Israel

DFLers Erin Maye Quade (left) and Ilhan Omar.

State Sen. Scott Dibble, one of the vigil’s organizers. hard to ensure the safety of visitors. “We will have a more visible security presence this year. In the past our security has been more behind the scenes,” she said. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau also offered condolences for the victims in Orlando. “The mass shooting that’s occurred is shocking, sad and intolerable. The MPD wants to reassure residents and visitors in our city that we remain vigilant and committed to ensuring people are safe at large scale events with significant crowds,” she said. “We continue to be in constant communication with our federal partners to make that possible. We stand with and protect all of our citizens in the fight against violence of any kind, including crime driven by hate to instill fear.”

A memorial for the Orlando shooting victims outside of the Saloon on Hennepin.

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By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com

Realm of the Unknown “Realm of the Unknown,” the latest exhibition at Form + Content Gallery, explores the less tangible aspects of life through moments of wonder, strangeness and absence. Artists Caitlin David, Kathryn Flora, Greta Kotz and Shannon Smith — all past and present gallery interns — examine how concepts like auras can be explored and expressed in the tangible world through paintings, portraits and more. Form + Content gallery is free and open to the public Thursday through Saturday from 12-6 p.m. Where: Form + Content Gallery, 210 N. 2nd When: June 30 through Aug. 6 Cost: Free Info: formandcontent.org

Go Outside with Hennepin County Hennepin County and the Minneapolis Downtown Council are hosting a summer of free programming downtown, from movies and music to fitness and games. At the Hennepin County Government Center’s South Plaza (300 S. 6th St.) there will be outdoor piano performances on Tuesdays from 12-1 p.m., food trucks and a craft cart on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and, of course, the farmers market on Thursdays from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. this summer. At Target Field Station (335 N. 5th St.), there are Monday movie nights at 7 p.m. in June, Wednesday night trivia at 6 p.m. and Sunday family days on June 26 from 4-6 p.m. and Aug. 7 from 12-4 p.m. Where: Hennepin County Government Center South Plaza & Target Field Station When: June 1 through Aug. 31 Cost: Free Info: downtownmpls.com/gooutside

Caffeine Crawl There are all kinds of pub crawls, brewery tours and wine tastings, but, for the past few years, coffee has finally gotten its own event. The Caffeine Crawl puts together several guided tours for serious coffee drinkers. Across six different routes, crawlers can enjoy drink and chocolate samples across Twin Cities cafes and shops, from Five Watt Coffee to Blackeye Roasting Co. and dozens more. Routes, which are either driving or bike-friendly routes, also include educational presentations from shops and can include some caffeine-free options — occasionally even alcoholbased options. Where: Various coffee shops When: June 24-25 Cost: $29-$32 Info: caffeinecrawl.com

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TWIN CITIES PRIDE June is LGBT Pride month, and this means the Twin Cities Pride Festival is right around the corner. The annual fest is set to takeover Loring Park and Hennepin Avenue the weekend of June 25-26. Here’s all the information you need to know to enjoy a weekend full of pride.

Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade The Twin Cities Pride Parade, the quintessential pride event, is considered one of the largest in the country, bringing thousands to Hennepin Avenue and lining the street for block and blocks. Join grand marshals Roxanne Anderson and D Rojas for an afternoon of pride — and don’t forget the shades and sunscreen. Where: 3rd Street & Hennepin Avenue When: Sunday, June 26 at 11 a.m. Cost: Free / Info: tcpride.org

Pride Presents: Kathy Griﬃn Comedienne Kathy Griﬃn will help kick of Pride festivities at Orchestra Hall. The award-winning comic promises to have a lot of new jokes for Minneapolis fans. “I’ve played Minneapolis many times. Minneapolis has been very good to me and I want your readers to know that it’s going to be all new — two hours of new material,” she said in a recent interview. “In this election year, I want your readers to know — no matter what side of the aisle you’re on — I have Donald Trump personal stories that are jaw droppers.” Where: Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall When: June 23, 6–10 p.m. Cost: Tickets start at $45 Info: tcpride.org

Twin Cities Pride Festival The 44th annual Twin Cities Pride Festival will bring hundreds of thousands to Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis. The weekend of festivities will kick off with Pride in Concert featuring performances from The Pointer Sisters, Adore Delano and The Phoenix Philosophy in the park on Saturday at 6-10 p.m. The festival itself is teeming with events, booths and shops giving guests a ton to explore. Where: Loring Park, 1382 Willow St. When: June 25-26 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: Free Info: tcpride.org

Rainbow Run Before Sunday’s parade runners will take to Boom Island and Hennepin Avenue for a rainbow-colored fun run. The Rainbow Run takes participants downtown along the parade route just in time for the festivities, and your bib can even be turned in for a free mimosa or Bloody Mary at Mason’s (528 Hennepin Ave.) while you watch the parade. Runners are invited to dress in their best rainbow colors, and the best dressed will even get prizes. Where: Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley St. NE When: Sunday, June 26 at 9:30 a.m. Cost: $20-$40 Info: tcpride.org

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Greenway Glow The Midtown Greenway Coalition is putting on a night of three Greenway Glow events, with an arts fest, a 10-mile bike ride and a nighttime fun run across the Midtown Greenway. The community arts festival (7 p.m.-1 a.m., $10 donation requested) features more than two dozen art installations and performances from local artists. Teams of cyclists will bike down the greenway during the 10-mile Glow Ride ($25-$30, plus $75 in pledges/donations) donning glowing attire. And for walkers and runners a 5K Glow Run/Walk (also $25-$30, plus $75 in pledges/donations) will have them heading down the greenway in a glow-in-the-dark T-shirt and glowing necklace. Register for the event at greenwayglow.kintera.org. Where: Midtown Greenway / When: June 18-19 from 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Cost: Free and ticketed events, donations requested / Info: midtowngreenway.org

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South Paciﬁc The Guthrie Theater’s artistic director Joseph Haj will get his first fully produced production debut with “South Pacific.” The production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, adapted from James A. Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific,” will also be the first time the classic makes its way to the Guthrie’s Wurtele Thrust Stage. The musical tells the story of two couples, a U.S. Navy nurse and a French planter, and a Marine and a young local girl, during a time of war and prejudice. Where: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St. When: June 24 through Aug. 28 Cost: $39-$74 / Info: guthrietheater.org

Nothing quite says that summer has arrived like a lineup of food trucks, and the Uptown Food Truck Festival boasts one of the city’s largest. More than 50 food trucks will come together for one delicious summer celebration with every cuisine you could think of, from Foxy Falafel’s falafel sandwiches, tacos from R Taco and grilled Japanese fare from Hibachi Daruma. The family-friendly, pet-friendly fest will also feature craft beers from North Loop BrewCo (formerly Lucid Brewing), games and live music across two stages. Where: Hennepin between Lake and 31st When: Saturday, June 26 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Cost: Free Info: uptownfoodtruckfestival.com

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