The Journal, Oct. 4–15, 2018 by The Journal

THE NEWS SOURCE FOR DOWNTOWN & NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS OCTOBER 4–17, 2018

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The cost of a home SEARCHING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN MINNEAPOLIS

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James Calhoun and his daughters Ashley and Brittany are looking for affordable housing. Photo by Chris Juhn

Aaron McLaurin hopes three jobs will be enough to rent his own place. McLaurin, 20, said he’s looked for housing “everywhere” in Minneapolis for three years, using a couple of apps to check criteria for credit scores, income thresholds and deposits. His main holdup is income requirements that demand prospective tenants earn twice or three times the cost of rent. So he’s working mornings, second shifts and night shifts as a personal care assistant, park employee and downtown security guard while also playing semi-pro football with the St. Paul Pioneers.

“I should be making enough now to do what I need to do,” he said. “… I hope so.” Currently living at Rita’s House in East Isles, he’s taking the same approach to housing that he does to jobs: If he gets five job interviews at once, he takes them all. “If they call me back and say you got the house or apartment, I’m going right in,” he said. “My mama always told me don’t be picky about what you get.” Affordable housing is at the top of the agenda

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A second pass at the city’s plan for growth City releases revised Minneapolis 2040 plan By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com After sifting through nearly 10,000 comments submitted to the City of Minneapolis, staff members are scaling back the density they’re proposing in a new plan for city growth. The revised Minneapolis 2040 plan would allow triplexes in neighborhoods that are today zoned mainly for singlefamily homes, a step back from an earlier version of the comprehensive plan update, which proposed opening much of the city to fourplex development. The revisions also lower the proposed height limits for new development on some transit corridors outside of the downtown core. City staff said a team of people read all 10,000 comments, but they did not attempt to classify the types of comments received, citing the massive undertaking that would entail.

The group Neighbors for More Neighbors is encouraging people to show up at the Minneapolis 2040 public hearings to express support for adding homes. The group Minneapolis For Everyone, meanwhile, held a press conference to say they feel their concerns have been ignored. The new draft contains meaningless tweaks “while remaining tone-deaf to what is really causing the discord they have sown in the community,” resident Lisa McDonald said in a statement. Areas that were downzoned in the draft include portions of Nicollet and Chicago avenues, blocks south of Loring Park, blocks along the Kenilworth Corridor between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, as well as 21st Street and Franklin Avenue running through the Kenwood and Lowry Hill neighborhoods.

Many areas proposed for high density did not see any changes in the second draft, including an area northwest of Bde Maka Ska near the future West Lake light rail station, where a stretch south of the Midtown Greenway would allow up to 30 stories. Principal City Planner Paul Mogush said the new station would provide a 12-minute ride into downtown, a “tremendous opportunity” for locating housing near a transit station and the product of many previous planning efforts. “Much of what we initially proposed is still relevant to the goals that the City Council set,” said Heather Worthington, director of long-range planning. Those goals include reduced racial disparities, affordable housing, more residents and more living wage jobs. Regarding the Shoreland Overlay

District, which currently requires developers to meet conditions to build above 2.5 stories near the water, Mogush said new language in the draft plan focuses on protecting water quality. “There are ways to achieve density in development in areas that are adjacent to public waterways that will not negatively impact those public waterways,” Worthington said. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board sent a letter to the city in September saying the overlay has been an important tool with regard to the lake’s aesthetic and environmental quality. The Park Board said the city should aggressively regulate water quality improvements and asked for a seat at the table during project reviews and during any future change to the shoreland ordinance. SEE 2040 PLAN / PAGE 2

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Livin’ Thing / By Meleah Maynard

CICADAS VS. LOCUSTS Bring ’em if you’ve got ’em. Yes, fellow gardeners, it is once again time to stock the Little Free Seed Library at my house. As always in the spring and fall, the top shelf of our Little Free Library (on the corner of 45th & Washburn) will serve as a seedsharing space for the next couple of months. I hope you’ll consider bringing some seeds to share, and if you do, please bring them in envelopes or baggies that are clearly marked with the name of the plant. I’ve put small, coin-sized envelopes and pens out there so people can choose seeds from larger envelopes and pack them up easily to take home.

Cicadas vs. locusts OK, now let’s get down to talking about cicadas and locusts. If you’re like me, and probably a zillion other people, what you think you know about these two critters is all mixed up. So how about we spend a few minutes sorting this mess out. I grew up in Phoenix where there are a lot more cicadas than we have here in Minnesota. Their buzzing, which I love, was pretty much the soundtrack to my entire childhood. But what I enjoyed even more was playing with the alien-like exoskeletons that cicadas shed and leave stuck to just about every surface in sight. Pinching those delicate shells between our fingers, my friends and I would march them around like we did our Barbies, acting out whatever we were playing that day.

I haven’t been able to find a source to prove it, but by the sound of it, I think we’ve got more cicadas this year than usual. Others who have thought the same have emailed to ask if I think this is one of those 17-year cycles where a huge swarm of them comes out of the ground to mate and wreak havoc on crops, or whatever it is they do when there’s a whole bunch of them. Now, I’ve of course heard of the 17-year cycle of locusts, which I thought were the same thing as cicadas. But lacking any kind of useful answer for folks, I looked stuff up. And boy did I learn a lot. First off—cicadas and locusts are completely different insects. What! I know, but it’s true, and the reason we get all confused about this is probably because both insects do behave in similar ways. Locusts, however, are a type of grasshopper, while cicadas are related to crickets — the latter connection is far less obvious when you look at photos. Locusts are the critters that swarm, sometimes to the point of causing actual natural disasters and earning them a bad rap in the Bible, books and a fair number of sci-fi films and TV shows. There are two types of cicadas, annual and periodical. True to their name, annual cicadas show up every year, though their life cycle is usually several years longer. They just spend the rest of that time underground, so we don’t see them. Periodical cicadas have a 13- to 17-year life cycle. And that’s where we get our

misguided ideas about the 17-year locust plague. Like annual cicadas, periodical species also spend a good deal of their lives underground. They just emerge far less often, and when they do, their numbers can be quite large, causing people to think they are a swarm or, yes, a plague of locusts. Minnesota doesn’t even have periodical cicadas. So, even if we are hearing more of them this year, it’s not like we’re being overtaken by the critters or anything. Unlike locusts, cicadas don’t destroy crops. They do feed on and lay their eggs on trees, but the damage isn’t usually a big issue. Generally present from early July to sometime in September, cicadas are harmless. So even though they look scary, don’t squish the poor things if you see them. Once the nymphs finally come up out of the ground and leave their skins behind to become adults, they only get a few brief weeks to hum and buzz to attract mates and have a bit of fun before they die. So, the next time you hear that strange noise they make with their abdomens, know that what you’re hearing is really the sound of love.

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Locust (top); cicada (bottom). Submitted photos

Meleah Maynard is a writer, editor and master gardener. For more gardening ideas and tips, visit her blog, which has been renamed Livin’ Thing, livinthing.com.

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The draft plan also recommends improving the city’s design quality standards. Staff heard many public concerns about design. In addition, city staff added more detail on affordable housing strategies. The plan now suggests pursuing inclusionary zoning so that new multi-family projects include some affordable units. The plan would suggest that affordable housing projects stay affordable for 30 years. The revised plan also suggests reducing property taxes and considering acquisitions to keep buildings affordable. The full City Council and City Planning Commission aim to vote on the plan by the end of the year. There will be public hearings before the commission Oct. 29 and council the week of Nov. 12. Residents can submit feedback to council members and at minneapolis2040.com /how-to-comment.

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DOWNSIZED TRANSIT CORRIDORS In some areas north of Lowry Avenue and south of 38th Street, a portion of thoroughfares like Nicollet and Chicago avenues are reduced from six-story Corridor 6 to four-story Corridor 4 zones. Staff said they heard residents say six stories would be a major change in spots that are predominantly one or two stories today.

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DOWNSIZED TRANSITIONS

In the lowest-density Interior 1 zone, the city would begin allowing triplexes built to the same size as single-family homes. This is a step down from the widespread fourplexes initially proposed. “We really want to provide housing choice,” said Heather Worthington, the city’s director of long-range planning. “… It’s not a mandate, it’s an option.” In some neighborhoods single-family homes are the only option, she said, which can be difficult to afford. “People in the city were concerned about being able to stay in the city as they age,” she said.

In areas located across an alley from a four-story Corridor 4 street, the city would allow buildings rising a maximum of two-and-a-half stories, called an Interior 2 zone. In the prior draft those areas were identified as Interior 3, allowing up to three stories of new construction.

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Faribault Woolen Mill Co. recently opened a store in downtown Minneapolis, the first expansion of its retail footprint outside its headquarters. The 153-year-old brand, based in an 1892 mill in southern Minnesota, now has a 1,540-square-foot retail shop at Washington & 11th near the Mill District. The brick-andmortar store opened over the summer as the largely e-commerce and wholesale brand unveils a new website and a new collection of products, many of them geared toward camping and travel. “Use of our products outside the home — hiking, camping, backpacking — is something we’re particularly excited about. It’s a thrill to see people enjoying Faribault products wherever they go,” CEO Tom Kileen said in a statement. The shop carries Faribault Woolen Mill’s

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at the Fine Line contracted well into next year, so even if they wanted to renovate, there isn’t any available time. First Avenue will consider “scaled improvements” in the meantime, he added. Future bookings for the Fine Line will focus on live comedy, podcast events and dance parties in addition to concerts. Kranz said the purchase means the venue will be open roughly twice as much, adding more music and live events to downtown. “I think it’s going to be great for downtown,” he said. The purchase comes as the number of First Avenue’s stages continue to grow. The company reopened the Palace Theatre last year after the 102-year-old venue sat vacant for 40 years. It’s also partnering with a development team that’s proposing a 10,000-capacity amphitheater as part of a nearly 50-acre redevelopment of a former shipping terminal in North Minneapolis known as the Upper Harbor Terminal. The company promotes events at venues across the state, including the three historic theaters on Hennepin Avenue, the Cedar Cultural Center and St. Paul’s Amsterdam Bar & Grill and Fitzgerald Theater. The Fine Line opened in 1987 inside the 1907 Consortium building as a nightclub and music venue. It remains open for private events, which will continue to be organized by Minneapolis Event Centers.

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At 400 square feet, JB Hudson’s MartinPatrick3 store will carry a “dynamic” inventory of both accessories and milestone gifts, staff said. Photos by Eric Best

JB Hudson, one of downtown’s longestrunning retailers, can now be found in the retail center of the North Loop. The high-end jeweler, a Nicollet Mall establishment dating back to 1885, opened a store-within-a-store inside MartinPatrick3 called the Loupe. Rather than a pop-up concept, the jeweler says the miniature store will be a long-term partnership with the luxury menswear boutique meant to “connect with a new downtown client.” “We’re the premier luxury jeweler of Minneapolis, and here we have an opportunity to partner with the premier luxury men’s retailer. We’re both at the top of our game in what we do. Why wouldn’t we want to expand into this section as well?” said Nick Pechman, JB Hudson president. Pechman said a North Loop location will offer a different experience than JB Hudson’s longtime flagship store at 9th & Nicollet in the Young Quinlan building. Rather than the more corporate-focused downtown store, he said the Loupe will match its more residential, “very familial” neighborhood and surroundings in MartinPatrick3. At 400 square feet, a fraction of the main store’s 11,000 square feet, Pechman said the Loupe carries a “dynamic” mix of new and existing inventory with a wide range of price points, from $1,000 to milestone gifts worth up to $1 million. The space, located just beyond the boutique’s bar accessories section, offers high-end jewelry for men and women, watches and accessories. Shoppers should always expect to see something new inside the Loupe, which will offer items to accessorize something they bought in the store, Pechman said, as well as pieces that they can be “wowed” by. Jewelry available at the Loupe contrasts from the style offered on Nicollet Mall, which Pechman described as “traditional with modern touches.” “We don’t have the opportunity to rest and learn and play in the same way,” Events and Experience Manager Karen Allen said, “but this, because of the intimacy and because of the surrounding vibe, we just have a more dynamic space and we intend not to follow, but lead in that way.” JB Hudson replaces MartinPatrick3’s previous store-within-a-store jewelry brand, Filigree Jewelers, which occupied a smaller space closer to the front of the store. Filigree left to open its own store in the neighborhood’s Whitney Square building, filling the space C’est Chic Boutique vacated in July. The Loupe is part of the menswear boutique’s latest expansion, a nearly

4,000-square-foot space in the back of the building that is used for events. The larger footprint — one of several expansions over the retailer’s lifetime — will mean more space for Marty’s, a full-service barbershop, and an in-house tailoring service. There are also new rooms for events. Events are a significant component of JB Hudson’s business, so Allen said they look forward to collaborating with MartinPatrick3. “This space is going to be a great fusion of what JB Hudson can bring in events and what (MartinPatrick3) already has going on,” she said. The Loupe by JB Hudson, at 212 3rd Ave. N. in the Colonial Warehouse Building, is open the same hours as MartinPatrick3, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday. A grand opening is planned for Oct. 4.

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Jennifer Rochel’s family has a history of selling furniture. The St. Anthony East resident, who prefers to go by her middle name, is following in the footsteps of her grandfather — the proprietor of a combination funeral home and furniture store, as was the custom in centuries past — by opening a home décor boutique in Northeast Minneapolis. “It’s kind of been my dream for a long time to get into this and do what he did,” she said. Rochel and her husband opened Curiosity in mid-August near 13th & 2nd in the Sheridan neighborhood. The space was once the back of Eat My Words, a used book store that relocated down the block. With less than 500 square feet to work with, she said the store’s wares will constantly evolve. “I don’t have six of this table in a warehouse somewhere. When it’s gone, it’s gone,” she said. Curiosity is an “occasional store” without set hours. It’s open two long weekends each month, typically from 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and noon–6 p.m. Sundays. During the store’s closed weekends, Rochel heads to area trade shows to find and buy Curiosity’s vintage goods, furniture and new products. Shoppers can expect to find sustainable

kitchen and dining products, down pillows, gifts and plenty of new and reclaimed furniture, from dining chairs and side tables to sofas and coffee tables. There are locally produced bath products and art pieces the store carries on consignment. Rochel keeps an inventory of products on the store’s website and online shopping is coming soon. Rochel said locals have embraced the store in its first couple months. When the store opened its doors during Labor Day weekend she said it drew families visiting from out of town. “The neighborhood support has been great, but the location has been amazing for (attracting travelers) as well,” she said. Curiosity fills the last space in a building that’s home to the Squared-Up salon and Marigold Way, a textiles and apparel shop. Nearly all of the corner’s commercial spaces have changed hands in the past year. Sleepy V’s, formerly Rebel Donut Bar, took over an art gallery space, and Social Catering replaced Chowgirls Killer Catering when the company moved its headquarters to the Mid-City Industrial area. Local hot sauce brand Cry Baby Craig’s operates out of a kitchen and a small retail space in the building. Curiosity is now open at 1228 2nd St. NE. It fronts 13th Avenue Northeast. Days and hours are listed online at curiosityhomedecor.com.

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Council approves plan for encampment A unanimous City Council voted Sept. 26 to move ahead with a plan to relocate members of a large homeless encampment along Hiawatha Avenue to a nearby site owned by Red Lake Nation. The council had previously explored two other options for temporarily housing and providing services to members of the tent encampment, home to several hundred people. It would have cost an estimated $2 million–$2.5 million to construct and operate temporary housing on either site. A third possible location emerged shortly after council members decided on Sept. 20 to push back their decision one week. Red Lake Nation owns the 1.25-acre site located at 2105-2109 Cedar Ave. S., which is adjacent to two city-owned parcels and surrounds Cedar Box Company, a box, crate and packaging manufacturer. The site is also near the Franklin Avenue light rail station. Red Lake Nation plans to begin construction on an affordable housing project at the Cedar Avenue location in May of next year. The existing buildings on the site are occupied, but Red Lake Nation Secretary Sam Strong said the tenant would be willing to end the lease early

and move as soon as a week after the council vote. The plan is to remediate and demolish the buildings before moving in temporary housing, likely in the form of trailers. Plans for the site also include a navigation center where members of the encampment can connect with government services and get help transitioning out of homelessness. Although Strong told council members he was confident the timeline could be accelerated, the site may not be ready until early December. That means it would operate for about six months.

In a statement released after the council’s vote, Mayor Jacob Frey thanked tribal leadership for partnering with the city. “As city staff turns its attention to preparing the site as quickly as possible, I will continue working with my colleagues in City Hall, neighboring jurisdictions, and the native community to continue the extensive outreach essential for a smooth transition to 2109,” he said in the statement. “Our work will continue to be done in partnership with the native community and will be guided by several overriding goals: protecting everyone’s health and safety, providing supportive social services, and ultimately finding more permanent housing options for our communities experiencing homelessness.” Details on how to fund the project, and what entities in addition to the city may contribute, were not finalized at the time of the council’s vote. The county, working with nonprofits and homeless outreach workers, is expected to run the navigation center.

Known as “The Wall of Forgotten Natives,” the tent encampment along Hiawatha Avenue swelled to a population of several hundred this summer. Photo courtesy Chris Juhn

Council scuttles independent ketamine inquiry The city will not move ahead with an independent investigation into the use of ketamine on people detained by Minneapolis police. The City Council on Sept. 21 voted 10-3 against awarding a $195,000 contract for the investigation to former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates and King & Spalding LLP, the Atlanta-based law firm where Yates is a partner. Mayor Jacob Frey in June recommended Yates lead an inquiry into whether Minneapolis officers improperly encouraged emergency medical services personnel to administer ketamine, a powerful sedative, to people in police custody. Questions about interactions between police and ambulance crews came to light after the draft version of a report by the city’s Office of Police Conduct Review was obtained by the Star Tribune, which published an initial story in mid-June. OPCR didn’t deliver a final version of its report to the council until over a month later, on July 26. Several council members who voted against the Yates contract said they were satisfied with the OPCR investigation and did not want to duplicate the office’s efforts. “I definitely do not support the allocation of this money to continue a study that our own Civil Rights Department has completed,” said Council Member Jeremiah Ellison (Ward 5), who voted with the majority. “I think that I would need evidence that the objectivity of our Civil Rights Department was compromised, and no one — not a single person — has been able to provide evidence that our Civil Rights Department’s objectivity was compromised in this instance.”

The OPCR report found the lack of a policy around interactions between police and EMS crews created a risk that officers would influence medical decisions. It found eight cases between 2016 and 2018 in which “MPD officers participated in the decision to administer ketamine.” In May, prior to the release of the report, the department responded to concerns raised by EMS personnel and, in a memo to officers, clarified that medical workers have the final call on the use of sedatives. The OPCR report also documented a dramatic rise in the number of police incident reports that cited ketamine use, from fewer than 10 reports in each year between 2010 and 2014 to 14 in 2016, 35 in 2016 and 62 in 2017. In response to media reports, Hennepin Healthcare, formerly known as the Hennepin County Medical Center, acknowledged in June that EMS crews had been equipped with ketamine since 2008 and that the hospital was conducting a clinical trial on its use to treat excited delirium, a potentially life-threatening condition, before patients arrived at the hospital. It was being tested against another drug also used to treat agitated patients. Hennepin Healthcare suspended the study in June as questions were raised about how and when participants granted consent. They were presented waivers after being hospitalized. Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13) joined Ward 9’s Alondra Cano and Ward 6’s Abdi Warsame in voting to approve the contract with Yates, arguing that to not do so would mean turning their backs on the public.

“This is something we all agreed was necessary just three short months ago,” Palmisano said. “We heard from the community. Their asks were clear. They wanted to get to the bottom of what happened between EMS personnel and our Minneapolis Police Department. They wanted to ensure impartiality, so they asked for the investigator have no Minnesota or Minneapolis ties.” Ellison said he had not heard the same public outcry for an independent study, adding that the plan to hire Yates came “unilaterally” from Frey’s office. Council President Lisa Bender echoed Ellison’s sentiments. “I think if we better work together and fully engage before decisions are announced we will have less of this back and forth, not that it’s a bad thing,” Bender said. Weighing on the council’s decision was the effort to quickly find housing for members of a growing homeless encampment along Hiawatha Avenue. Although the council voted against it, Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) attempted to redirect the study funds toward emergency assistance for the homeless. Council Member Steve Fletcher (Ward 3) said the mayor’s push to hire Yates wasn’t out of line in June, but added the situation had changed with the receipt of OPCR’s full report and the need to respond quickly to a housing emergency. “I just think that we have to be responsive to shifting priorities in our city and to shifting needs as we learn more,” Fletcher said.

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Streetscape / By Sarah Tschida

WALKING TO SCHOOL IS A POSITIVE FORCE FOR KIDS, COMMUNITY

t’s a Friday in September. There is a slight chill and a mist in the air, and dozens of kids are streaming off school buses to meet up with the Lyndale Walking Bus and walk four blocks north to Lyndale Community School. These kids are taking part in the Pleasant Pathway, an effort to provide more kids with the benefits of walking to school. The concept of these programs is simple. The walking school bus is similar to a bus route: Families walk a designated route to school, picking up more kids along the way, until they reach their destination. The Pleasant Pathway is what’s known as a Bus Stop & Walk program. Kids who live further away from Lyndale and normally bus are dropped off about a half-mile away and get to walk the rest of the way to school with their classmates. Lyndale has a history of promoting walk to school efforts, and Jenny and Scott Bordon are two of our community’s biggest walk champions. Nearly a decade ago, the Bordons organized with other neighborhood families to build community by walking together to school. That grew into a more formalized Walking School Bus, which was the first of its kind in Minneapolis. Eventually, Scott applied for a grant to support the walk-to-school efforts, and in

Jenny and Scott Bordon, in front of the new flashing crossing beacons at 36th & Pleasant. Photo by Sarah Tschida

2011 Jenny began work as Minneapolis Public Schools’ coordinator for the Safe Routes to School Program, a national initiative to get more students biking and walking to school while encouraging cities to make it safer to do so. What began as a grassroots initiative has now grown into a broad coalition of support that includes the school district, city, Safe Routes to School at the state and national level, teachers, staff, parents, community members and others. Students benefit from walking to school.

They get fresh air first thing in the morning and most of their recommended daily activity during their trip to and from school. MPS teachers at schools participating in Bus Stop and Walks overwhelmingly report that students arrive at school more alert and ready to learn and that the program is good for their school. Lisa Skrzeczkoski-Bzdusek walks to school every morning with her fourth grader, first grader and two of her neighbor’s kids. The four parents each take a day walking the kids home from school in the afternoon and rotate pick-up on the fifth day. “It’s a good way for them to get their sillies out in the morning,” Lisa said, pointing to her kids running up the sidewalk with their friends. MPS Safe Routes to School recognizes that many families experience barriers that prevent them from walking to school. Equity is at the heart of their strategic action plan for the program. One priority is to create partnerships to reduce and address street harassment — which disproportionately affects girls, women, people of color, people with low incomes and people who identify as LGBTQ — so that all families can feel safe walking to school. Other priorities include increasing access by expanding the district’s Bus Stop & Walk efforts and encouraging teachers to incorporate walking and biking

activities into the school day so that students who don’t live as close to school can also get exercise and be outside. Whether we have school-aged kids or not, we can all play a part in supporting Safe Routes to School and encouraging more kids to walk and bike year round. If you drive, be a safe driver and help contribute to a street environment where kids, who are some of our streets’ most vulnerable users, can feel confident. Support efforts at the city, county and state level to incorporate traffic-calming measures on our streets. Slow down and yield to people biking and walking. Hang out in your front yard. Go on your own walks and bike rides. There is strength in numbers. Your presence out in the community is felt by others and can contribute to a positive and safe environment for all. Scott Bordon embodies the communitybuilding aspect of walking to school. Even though his kids are grown and have moved on from elementary school, he can still be found every weekday morning wearing his bright orange safety vest, carrying his stop sign and helping numerous neighborhood kids walk safely to school. He has a smile and a friendly handshake for all, he greets neighbors in Spanish and kids who have moved on to junior high remember him and wave hello. Coming up on Oct. 10, schools across the country will be celebrating National Walk & Bike to School Day. Last year, numerous Minneapolis schools and an estimated 9,000 students took part. This year, several community schools have special celebrations planned. Learn more at nutritionservices.mpls.k12. mn.us/sr2s. Join in the celebrations Oct.10, and let’s work together to make it possible for more kids to walk to school everyday!

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Moments in Minneapolis By Cedar Imboden Phillips

STYLISHLY EQUIPPED FOR WINTER

id you turn on your furnace last week? When temperatures fell to the 40s, those of us in the Twin Cities got a cold reminder that winter is on its way. Love it or leave it, winter has always been a defining feature of our region. The storage spaces at Hennepin History Museum are filled with examples: snow shoes, skis, an early homemade snowblower and, of course, lots and lots of warm winter hats, coats, mittens and boots. Hans Anderson donned this beautiful coat for his studio portrait in 1888. He looks perfectly — and stylishly — equipped, set to tackle whatever challenges the cold months threw his way.

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Mohamed Noor did not respond to reporters’ questions as he left the Hennepin County Government Center following a Sept. 27 court appearance. Photo by Dylan Thomas

The criminal trial of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor is scheduled to begin April 1 in Hennepin County District Court. Fourth Judicial District Judge Kathryn L. Quaintance set the trial date during a Sept. 27 omnibus hearing in agreement with Noor’s defense team and prosecutors from the Hennepin County Attorney’s office. Quaintance also ruled that there was probable cause to try Noor on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, denying requests from Noor’s attorneys to dismiss the charges. On July 15, 2017, Noor shot and killed 40-year-old Justine Damond in the alley behind her Fulton neighborhood home. Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk, had called 911 just before 11:30 p.m. to report a possible sexual assault and was shot as she approached the police vehicle driven by Noor’s former partner, Officer Matthew Harrity. Noor has not entered a plea in the case, but his attorneys have said he intends to plead not guilty. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced the charges against Noor in March. Noor was fired from the police department that same month. His attorneys, Tom Plunkett and Peter Wold, filed motions in August to dismiss the charges, claiming prosecutorial misconduct on the part of Freeman and a lack of probable cause. The claim of prosecutorial misconduct stemmed from statements Freeman made during a September 2017 community meeting — when he said a jury had erred in acquitting former St. Anthony officer Jeronimo Yanez in another high-profile police shooting case — and at a December 2017 labor union holiday party. Freeman said he was unaware activists were recording him at the party when he criticized Minneapolis police for not cooperating with the investigation. In the video, Freeman describes the opportunity to promptly bring charges against Noor as “the big present I’d like to see under the Christmas tree,” but Quaintance rejected defense attorneys’ argument that those comments had undermined Noor’s right to a fair trial. “Here, the wiser course would be for the County Attorney to remain silent during an ongoing investigation,” Quaintance wrote in her order. “However, the defense has failed to establish a basis for prosecutorial misconduct and dismissal with regard to the County Attorney’s statements.” Freeman later apologized for the holiday party comments, but he also called a grand jury in order to compel officers to testify. Quaintance also found that the state had cleared the bar in showing probable cause for both of the charges against Noor. His defense team argued in an August motion that Noor’s actions did not meet the

standard for third-degree murder, defined in part as “an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life.” But in her order Quaintance wrote, “Defendant either saw and fired at what he believed was a person, or he fired into the darkness at an unknown target. Under either scenario, the jury could find that his act was dangerous to human beings and was performed without regard for human life.” The jury could also take into consideration the evidence that Noor fired from the passenger seat of the car, reaching in front of his partner to shoot out the driver’s side window, when considering whether Noor’s actions were “reckless and wanton,” the judge added. In their August motion to dismiss, Noor’s attorneys also argued that the ex-officer fired his weapon only once in “an attempt to minimize the danger he and Officer Harrity believed was real at that moment.” They said his actions ran counter to the “culpable negligence” standard for second-degree manslaughter. Quaintance rejected that argument as well, noting that a jury could find that by shooting into the darkness Noor “consciously created an unreasonable risk of causing death or great bodily harm.” In a third order issued Sept. 27, Quaintance also denied the defense team’s motion to suppress psychological records produced during Noor’s hiring process. Noor’s attorneys argued it would be a violation of physician-patient privilege to enter the records in court, but Quaintance found that psychiatrist who assessed Noor’s fitness for police work was not his personal physician and that Noor should have known records produced during the hiring process were not confidential. The shooting of Damond, a native of Australia living in Minneapolis with her fiance, led to significant changes within the Minneapolis Police Department. Former Chief Janeé Harteau resigned a week after the shooting at the request of then-Mayor Betsy Hodges, who nominated Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo to take her place. Arradondo now leads the department. The shooting also prompted revisions to the department’s officer-worn body camera policy. Both Harrity and Noor were wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting, but neither officer had activated his camera. Less than two weeks after Damond’s death, Arradondo announced policy changes that required officers to activate their cameras for most calls. In addition to the ongoing criminal trial, Noor is also named in two civil lawsuits making their way through federal court, including a lawsuit filed by Damond’s Australian family that is seeking $50 million in damages.

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Watershed district passes 2019 budget, levy The government agency responsible for managing and protecting the water resources of the Minnehaha Creek watershed passed its preliminary 2019 budget, tax levy and work plan this past month. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District’s Board of Managers unanimously approved a preliminary budget of $15.1 million and a levy of $9.7 million at its Sept. 13 meeting. The seven-member board also approved a work plan that focuses on the Minnehaha Creek and Six Mile Creek-Halsted Bay sub-watersheds. The approval came nearly a year after the board passed a 2018 budget of $12.1 million and a levy of $9.7 million. The district increased its 2019 budget without increasing its levy because of careful planning and unprecedented outside funding, administrator James Wisker said during an Aug. 23 budget presentation. Wisker said the district has collected taxes for some of its key capital projects over multiple years, allowing it to maintain the levy. He also noted the district has been more successful in securing outside funding from grants and partner agencies. The district has secured nearly $2.3 million in grants and partner funds for 2019, compared to $1.2 million for 2018, according to its budget documents. That includes funding from Hennepin County, the city of Edina, the Metropolitan Council and the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, among other sources.

The district also has more unassigned funds available for 2019 as a result of certain programs coming in under-budget and activities that it deprioritized. The district plans on using its funding in 2019 to continue restoration work on the western edge of the watershed and to implement capital projects along Minnehaha Creek in Edina, Hopkins, St. Louis Park and Minneapolis. It will prioritize five projects along the creek, including the repairing of 11 sites in South Minneapolis that were damaged by flooding in 2014. That project will include the restoration of 325 feet of stream bank at three sites near Interstate 35W and eight below Minnehaha Falls, according to the agency. The district is leveraging $174,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for the project. Board of Managers Treasurer Richard Miller praised Wisker at the Aug. 23 meeting for maintaining the levy while managing a “great output of product.” He added that the district has reduced its number of full-time staff positions by about 10 from several years ago, which he said reflects well on Wisker and staff for reprioritizing workload and work flow. “I just think the whole product, and the clarity here, is beyond anything I’ve seen before,” Miller said of the budget. “I think everybody knows where every cent is going and why it’s going there.”

Minneapolis streetlights go green The effort to upgrade more than 24,000 Minneapolis streetlights with high-efficiency LED bulbs began in mid-September, Xcel Energy announced. About 90,000 Xcel-owned streetlights across the state have already been converted to LED from high-pressure sodium fixtures. The LED fixtures consume 40–60 percent less electricity and also last longer than the old-style fixtures, the company reports. Minneapolis is the last of nearly 350 communities across the state to undergo

the conversion, according to Xcel. The company estimated that Minneapolis would save 4–7 percent on its street lighting bill annually, or about $150,000 per year. In a statement, Mayor Jacob Frey called the project a “win-win” for the city, noting that it would reduce costs to taxpayers while benefitting the environment. Xcel is covering all of the costs of the retrofits and plans to salvage the older fixtures.

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Fall cleanup planned citywide Join your neighbors in making a cleaner city during the Oct. 4–13 volunteer-led Litter Be Gone cleanup campaign taking place across Minneapolis. The campaign is recruiting individuals and teams to pick up litter on streets and in public spaces in every Minneapolis neighborhood. The effort is supported by the city and the non-profit Alliance or Sustainability. To participate, first sign up online at litterbegone.org. Then use your own gloves and bag — or pick up free supplies from a participating business sponsor — and head out alone or with a team to pick up trash at any point during the 10-day campaign.

Anyone looking to join a neighborhood team can find more information on the Litter Be Gone website. After returning home, sort and dispose of trash and recyclables. Participants are invited to report the amount of litter they’ve collected via email or an online form. The campaign is also encouraging participants to help spread the word through social media, using the hashtag #cleanMpls18 or the handle @LitterBeGoneMN. Litter Be Gone is also recruiting partners and sponsors to support the campaign. Go to the website for more information.

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Scherer site would become Graco Park under new agreement An empty piece of Northeast parkland will become Graco Park under a new agreement between the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and Graco. City officials say the agreement is a “win-win” between the Park Board and the local manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, two “adversaries” that have been in a recent legal battle over part of the former Scherer Bros. Lumber Co. just north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge on the river’s east bank. “When we took a step back and realized we all had the same goals, it kind of just started working,” said Brad Bourn, president of the Park Board. “We took organizations that were adversaries and we created a historic partnership. I think that that deserves some recognition.” The complex agreement, which is actually six separate agreements, will split the former lumberyard into four pieces, including approximately 5 acres that would be known as Graco Park, 2.2 acres for Graco to privately develop, 1.35 acres set aside for the Park Board and the newly recreated Hall’s Island. Graco, whose headquarters is adjacent to the site, will buy the land set aside for private development at the fair market value of $1.1 million, prepay park dedication fees and pay for flood protection.

The Graco Foundation will contribute $3 million that the board will use to develop Graco Park. The company will also agree to drop a lawsuit against the board over an East Bank Trail easement and release its condemnation claim and fees, which would return more than $622,300 the board paid so it could build the trail. In total, the agreement is worth $10.6 million. In return, the Park Board will name the future regional park Graco Park for its first 30 years, under a donation agreement with Graco. Several pieces of the agreement will go before park commissioners in October, Bourn said. If all are approved, community engagement, design and permitting for the park could be completed next year. Under that timeline, construction would happen in 2020 and 2021 and the park could open to the public as soon as 2022. It’s unclear if Graco Park would be the first park in the Minneapolis park system named after a corporation. The manufacturer’s name comes from brothers Russell and Leil Gray who founded Graco in downtown Minneapolis in 1926. It’s been located in Northeast for 64 years. Other names of business owners can be found nearby in Gluek Park, the former site of the Gluek Brewery and mansion, and B.F. Nelson Park, named for the paper

mill operator and former park commissioner Benjamin Franklin Nelson. Charlotte Boyd, a spokeswoman for Graco, said the company hasn’t begun planning what it would like to build on the 2.2 acres it intends to purchase. The Park Board had opened a portion of the lumberyard known as Parcel D to private developers in 2015. At the time, Graco was the only one interested in developing the site, where it proposed two 50,000-squarefoot buildings and 133 surface parking stalls. A previous board unanimously rejected working with the company at the time. Boyd said Graco will go through a new process of designing and planning an expansion of its headquarters. As part of its agreement with the Park Board, the plan will have to help activate the park and serve as a buffer between the park and Graco’s industrial activities. Christian Rothe, president of Graco’s Worldwide Applied Fluid Technologies Division, said the company needs a place to bring the hundreds of guests it hosts each year. Boyd said the development could be a combination of spaces for visitors, training and offices. Surface parking is unlikely, she added. “It’s such an attractive piece of land. To put parking on it would be kind of a waste for us,” she said.

On the Park Board’s end, the agreement jumpstarts funding for Graco Park, a part of the Above the Falls Regional Park extending north along both banks of the riverfront. It also creates $1.8 million in funding for the approximately 1.35 acres of Parcel D that the board will retain. Michael Schroeder, assistant superintendent of planning services, said the board didn’t have a funding stream for the parkland, which won’t be a part of the regional park. Bourn said without the agreement it’s possible the Scherer site could remain a grass field for a generation. “(We) could come back in 15, 20 years and without cooperation we could be looking at the same thing,” he said. Mayor Jacob Frey said the agreement is an “achievement that will last generations” by allowing Graco to expand in place and bringing people to the riverfront, “This is emblematic of everything that Minneapolis should be about,” he said. The Park Board finished its restoration of Hall’s Island, a landmass that the lumber company had previously dredged into the riverfront, earlier this year. Schroeder said designing and constructing the island cost about $4.5 million. Another approximately $1.3 million is needed to build a riverfront boardwalk and bridges to the island, which isn’t yet publicly accessible.

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Elliot Park Hotel The Elliot Park Hotel has officially opened in the neighborhood of the same name, completing the block home to the new KrausAnderson headquarters, HQ Apartments and a Finnegans micro-brewery. The 168-room hotel and Tavola, a 126-seat Italian restaurant on the main floor, opened Sept. 20 at 9th & 5th. Wilkinson Corp. developed the hotel, which is part of the Marriott Autograph Collection. ESG Architects designed the hotel’s rooms and common areas in the spirit of “hygge,” a Danish concept embracing comfort and contentment.

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The Green* Catholic Eldercare has opened a new green space at 8th & Main on its Northeast Minneapolis campus. The Green at Catholic Eldercare features new trees, garden beds and, soon, a Christmas tree, which will be relocated this year from its traditional spot. The project, funded by a year-long fundraising campaign, adds accessible walking paths around the perimeter for the non-profit senior housing and program provider’s residents, staff and caregivers. A founder’s fountain inside a patio area is meant to further beautify the space adjacent to the St. Anthony of Padua chapel on the campus.

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Target Center The Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx are putting another $2.5 million into the renovation of the Target Center to cover the total cost of the venue’s premium level space, Club TI, named for Treasure Island casino. The additional work will open up the Club TI space to create a symmetrical layout with eating areas, pool tables and shuﬄe boards on either side. The project also calls for upgrades to the furniture and a walk-up merchandise store that will service Target Center’s premium level. The Target Center reopened last October after an approximately $145 million renovation, about half of which —$74 million — came from the city of Minneapolis.

Minneapolis-based developer Curt Gunsbury of Solhem Cos. is calling his latest proposal Archive, a six-story, nearly 200-unit building planned for a surface parking lot near the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Preliminary plans for the project went before a joint meeting of the Planning Commission Committee of the Whole and Heritage Preservation Commission, whose members critiqued the project’s massing and an exterior decorative band. The building would fill the space between the Foster House building to the east and the Chicago House Hotel building to the west.

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365 Nicollet Opus officially opened its latest Nicollet Mall apartment tower Oct. 3. The developer’s most recent Nicollet project is 365 Nicollet, a 30-story high-rise with 375 units and nearly 10,000 square feet of retail space. The building, which is designed to be LEED certified, features communal social and wellness areas with a sports simulator, an outdoor pool and a penthouse amenity deck on the 27th floor. The project follows two other similar residential towers on the north end of Nicollet Mall, 4Marq and Nic on Fifth.

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Affordable Housing

Countering a crisis Minneapolis tests tactics to produce and preserve affordable housing

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com

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In May, five months into his first term, Mayor Jacob Frey pledged to make the city’s largest-ever annual investment in housing, announcing that he’d seek a record $50 million to produce and protect affordable rental housing, boost supports for renters and open pathways to homeownership his 2019 budget. It would be a stretch, Frey acknowledged in front of a small crowd gathered for the announcement at Blue Line Flats, a 135-unit workforce housing project on a light-rail transit corridor developed in 2016 by Wellington Management. And by the time Frey unveiled his $1.5 billion 2019 city budget proposal in August, the ambitious plan pitched by his affordable housing taskforce was scaled back to a $40 million effort — still a record for the city, more than triple any previous single-year investment in affordable housing, according to they mayor’s office. “This isn’t just a Minneapolis problem,” Frey said in his budget address. “But this is a problem where Minneapolis is uniquely positioned to lead. And we will.” Setting a lofty goal was a kind of signal. Not only is decreasing housing affordability a crisis, it’s a crisis Minneapolis can’t solve on its own. “The goal was to push all the units of government and identify this as a serious, serious problem that’s getting in the way of economic growth and getting in the way of families being able to make it,” said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, a member of the mayor’s housing taskforce. McLaughlin said using city property tax revenue to boost the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund was a “big step,” one that showed the mayor was serious about following through on the taskforce recommendations. But it also hints at the limits of what Minneapolis can do on its own. As the mayor’s staff noted in an email, there is “tension” inherent in using property taxes to address the housing problem: Rising property taxes squeeze budgets in low-income and fixed-income households. But in his budget speech, Frey had an eye on rising construction costs and an impending interest rate hike, arguing that it “was time to take advantage of a market primed for investment” by guiding that investment into affordable housing.

Mayor Jacob Frey announcing his affordable housing plan in May. File photo

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developments, and with Council Member Jeremiah Ellison she has proposed a so-called “renters bill of rights” that would enhance protections for tenants, who are seeing rents rise faster than incomes. Housing is a significant focus of Minneapolis 2040, the city’s 10-year update to its comprehensive plan, which aims to open more of the city to multi-family housing and encourage denser development along transportation corridors. Like many large metropolitan areas around the country, Minneapolis is growing — here the rate of growth is faster than any time since 1950. But as demand for housing of all types increases, affordable housing in particular is scarcer. Since 2000, Minneapolis has lost about 15,000 housing units affordable to people earning 50 percent of area median income. Ed Goetz, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota, said the city is testing many of the same approaches as other growing cities. While he acknowledged the need for more housing of all types, Goetz expressed skepticism that broader efforts to encourage more market-rate development would have an immediate impact on housing affordability. (That dynamic is the subject of a CURA study in development.) Goetz said Minneapolis had been particularly innovative in exploring renter protections and dedicating funding to the preservation of naturally occurring affordable housing, or lower-rent apartments that don’t get a housing subsidy. “But there’s no way to think of this as the solution to the problem,” Goetz cautioned. “It’s got to be all hands on deck, and that means the state and it means federal government.”

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Across the Twin Cities region, the population growth rate since 2010 (7.4 percent) has outpaced housing production over the same period (5.4 percent), according to the Metropolitan Council. The new hire in the mayor’s office will be tasked with coordinating the response with other local governments as well as nonprofit and private partners. “The need for this position was also reinforced by guidance from members of my affordable housing taskforce about the need for Minneapolis to participate in efforts to build statewide and regional momentum for action on our housing crisis,” Frey wrote in an email. McLaughlin said the federal government’s “general retreat” from public housing has forced local governments to act. While the state under Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration has invested more than $5 billion in affordable housing projects across the state since 2011, he said there is still a need for a “robust, long-term, dedicated funding source” “We need an intervention now, and just like so many things that we’re seeing, you can’t call Washington these days for help,” McLaughlin said.

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in Minneapolis. Any delay would be “too damn late,” according to Mayor Jacob Frey, who dedicated $40 million to affordable housing in his proposed 2019 budget, more than triple the level of past city investment. Affordable housing is an easier pitch than in years past. Lydia House was picketed 15 years ago and challenged in court, but the supportive housing complex is now poised to double in size with the blessing of the Stevens Square Community Organization. The North Loop Neighborhood Association is supporting Great River Landing, an apartment project for single men that comes with a job the day they leave jail. Involved in both projects is Lee Blons, executive director of Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative. She said the public is more empathetic today about the need for affordable housing, and non-profit housing developers have a proven track record. What still isn’t understood, Blons said, is the scope of the problem.

Tip of the iceberg For 100,000 Twin Cities households who are paying more than half their incomes on rent, all it takes is a car repair or an illness to put housing at risk, Blons said. The Metropolitan Council forecasted a need for 52,000 new affordable units in the Twin Cities region between 2011 and 2020, and as of December 2017, about 7,000 affordable units were added. The region is also losing affordable housing, according to the Met Council, as rents rise in the tight apartment market and affordable properties age out of their subsidies and opt to become market-rate. The issue became more visible last summer through an encampment of people in tents near Franklin & Hiawatha. “Just about everybody will ask, ‘What happened? Why? Why did the camp spring up?’” said Patina Park, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center. “This is a fraction of the … homeless in the city. You can see them, and that upsets people.” “When people are saying the encampment is just the tip of the iceberg, it’s not just a theoretical number,” Blons said. The Office to End Homelessness reports there are currently 1,421 single adults and 51 families seeking housing help through the county’s Coordinated Entry System. Director David Hewitt said people with the lowest incomes, 30 percent of the area median income or less, face a shortage of more than 32,000 affordable units.

Screened out James Calhoun is thankful to be out of the Harbor Light shelter downtown, where his cell phone was snatched from the pillow under his head. Now he is sleeping at churches and getting assistance from Fami-

lies Moving Forward while he searches for a home for himself, his daughter Brittany, 15, and daughter Ashley, who at age 17 is fighting leukemia. They were evicted from a St. Paul apartment in March after health issues set them back. Calhoun said he recently had a good week. He found a job at an auto center in Uptown, and a good boss who gives him leave to take Ashley to the hospital. But he’s tired of repeatedly paying $40–$50 housing application fees only to find he doesn’t have the right credit score or will need to pay a double damage deposit due to the prior eviction. “Do you know how hard it is for a single dad to find any housing to keep this family together? There is none. There is nothing out there,” said Calhoun. “… There has to be more help out there.”

The time to act Housing advocates say now is the time to invest in affordable housing, before costs rise to the point where public officials decide it’s too expensive. Twenty years ago, cities like Seattle, Portland, Denver and Minneapolis all had similar home values, according to Jeff Washburne, executive director of the City of Lakes Community Land Trust. Today, while Minneapolis’ median home value is $250,000, it’s jumped to nearly $700,000 in Seattle and close to $400,000 in Portland and Denver.

“We don’t have oceans and we don’t have mountains, but it’s not hard to believe that home values are going to continue to go up and more and more folks are not going to be able to withstand the pressure, whether rental or ownership,” he said. Washburne told North Side residents at a July community meeting that he brought a “message of urgency.” “I … have this huge concern that five or 10 years from now, North Minneapolis, not only economically but racially and culturally, is going to feel very, very different,” he said. The Land Trust interviewed nearly 1,000 African Americans in North Minneapolis about five years ago. Seventy percent said they wanted to buy a home on the North Side, while about 60 percent earned less than $24,000 a year. “When a significant portion of the community does not have that property control, they’re left vulnerable to market forces,” said Gretchen Nicholls, program officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national organization that aims to bring economic opportunity to residents. She said she’s hoping for a cooperative housing solution at the 3100 block of 22nd Avenue South, where a landlord lost a rental license and tenants said they were asked to leave by the end of September. At a protest Sept. 30, one resident of 23 years said he lived in the neighborhood

Aaron McLaurin has searched for affordable housing for three years. Photo by Michelle Bruch

back when there wasn’t a gym and there wasn’t a light-rail train. “We are this neighborhood. We belong here and we plan to stay here,” he said. Jose Cruz has lived for 10 years at his 22nd Avenue apartment. “That’s my house,” he said. “… I’m trying to look for a different place, but it’s too expensive right now.” One Bancroft homeowner at the protest said she’s worried about gentrification where she lives near 38th & Chicago. “Lower-income people like ourselves have a harder time living there,” she said. One of her neighbors learned their apartment building had been sold and they had a month to leave. She watched another neighbor go through divorce, become financially strained and enter foreclosure; a buyer flipped the house and sold it for a high price, she said. More than 500 apartment properties changed hands in Minneapolis from 2000 to 2017, with a spike last year, according to the Minnesota Housing Partnership. Nearly 20 percent of those sales were concentrated in Uptown and Whittier. Sales tend to correspond with higher rent increases, according to the agency.

A path to homeownership Some groups see affordable homeownership as another solution. The Kingfield neighborhood recently allocated funds to help the City of Lakes Community Land Trust rehab a house at 210 W. 46th St. The land trust will retain ownership of the land and sell the house separately to a new homeowner. That’s how dance and pilates instructor Jessica Cressey purchased her home on Blaisdell. With the help of the land trust, she bought her house about 10 years ago for $147,000. Houses around her have started selling for more than $370,000, but she knows her house will remain permanently affordable as part of the land trust, even if she decides to sell. Now she’s aiming to open a studio out of her home early next year. “I don’t think it’s any coincidence that my business has grown and become more successful in the 10 years I’ve been a homeowner,” she said. James Calhoun meets with staff at the county’s Coordinated Entry system in October, the first step in a process to get help with housing. He did find a nice house for sale while walking with his daughters near the chain of lakes. They checked the price: $2.4 million. “Someday, honey,” he said to his daughter. “No day,” Brittany said in response. Although hundreds seek housing help, Calhoun is optimistic their family will receive priority in line. “We try to keep the jokes going through all this,” he said. “You got to stay positive, that’s the biggest thing. Just stay positive. Keep moving.”

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Affordable Housing

The equation behind affordable housing By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com For developers, an affordable housing project comes down to crunching numbers. The math is increasingly important, though, as developers try to address the growing need for affordable housing and cities like Minneapolis are having conversations on how to best incentivize development. “It is just a math problem,” said Anne Mavity, executive director of the Minnesota Housing Partnership. Here’s a look at how developers fund affordable housing projects.

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Whether a developer is for-profit or nonprofit, their equation begins at the same place: Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, or LIHTC. The program, the main driver of affordable housing across the country, is designed to subsidize projects that have limited rents for people earning under a certain percentage of area median income. These rental units aren’t going to bring in as much income as market-rate apartments, which in turn means developers won’t be able to borrow as much to build them. Through the program created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, developers apply for credits each year through local agencies and governments like the city of Minneapolis, a process known as suballocation. The local agency acts as a housing credit agency and assesses each project under a scoring system called the Qualified Allocation Plan, which generally ranks proposals with lower rents higher and thus more likely to receive credits. Typically, non-profit developers stick to 9 percent tax credits, which are worth more and cover more construction costs than the other credit, the 4 percent credits generally used for projects developed by for-profit companies. Those credits are tied to bond funding, so for-profit developers first apply for bonding dollars to receive their credits. In recent years, the 4 percent credits have gotten more competitive as more projects from for-profit developers vie for limited bonding. Developers or syndicators working on their behalf then sell these credits to investors who these days are paying roughly 85 cents to more than 90 cents on the dollar for each dollar of tax credit over a decade. In turn, these investors, many of them large banks, pay less in taxes. The 9 percent credits can represent more than 70 percent of the total cost to develop a project, while 4 percent credits traditionally cover about a third, but developers say each building is different. “Especially to serve the very lowest income folks, it’s an extremely important resource. If you don’t get tax credits for a project like that, you’re probably not going to build it,” said Barbara McCormick, senior vice president of housing with services with Project for Pride in Living, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit developer. There are ways that developers can boost the total cost they can cover with credits. If their project is in a low-income area called a qualified census tract or an area where land is more expensive, called a difficult development area, they can receive a 30 percent increase to their credit. In Minneapolis, the downtown riverfront and North Loop are the only difficult devel-

opment areas. Qualified census tracts represent a much more utilized incentive to build affordable housing. Neighborhoods like Ventura Village, Near North and Phillips — all part of qualified census tracts — have seen large clusters of affordable housing.

Stacking funding sources Sometimes tax credits and debt won’t be enough to finance a project, and that’s when “soft” funding sources fill the gap. These include Hennepin County’s Affordable Housing Incentive Fund, Metropolitan Council programs or private grants. Other projects will combine LIHTC with other subsidies, such as state and federal historic tax credits, renewable energy tax credits or tax-increment financing. These sources have their own rules and can often extend how long a project must continue to cap its rents. A building funded solely by LIHTC must be compliant for 15 years, but other funding sources may require 20, 30 or 40 years of affordability. When that time is up, developers have the option of re-syndicating and applying for more credits, selling the building or changing rents. It’s not unusual for developers to tap a half-dozen or more sources to get the math to work out in the end. For Schafer Richardson’s first affordable project, The Cameron in the North Loop, the developer had more than dozen sources. The more complex the equation, the more paperwork developers need to do to make sure they’re in compliance with all the funding sources. “It just takes a long time to get those committed to the deal to know if the deal works,” said Katie Anthony, a senior project manager with Schafer Richardson.

What’s in it for developers? If developers can make it work, an affordable housing project is rarely going to make them money. Instead, there are other reasons they get into the market. Non-profit developers — the city’s largest include Aeon, CommonBond Properties and Twin Cities Housing Development Corp. — have missions to provide affordable housing. To cover their own costs, these organizations typically make their money through development fees. “We regard ourselves as lucky — or brilliant depending on who you’re talking to — if our projects consistently break even and cover their own costs,” McCormick said. For-profit developers like Lupe Development, Dominium and Sherman Associates are entering at a different segment of the affordable housing market with projects offering higher subsidized rents. “It’s abundantly clear that the need well surpasses what non-profit developers can do,” McCormick said. “There is a huge need at the very bottom of the income spectrum, but there’s significant need in the middle-income space as well.” Schafer Richardson Director of Development Maureen Michalski said these projects are attractive because they have different risks and can diversify a developer’s portfolio. “You’re not worried about low vacancy rates, overbuilding or things like that,” she said. “It’s about what’s the highest and best use of the property.”

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hat exactly is gleaning?” is a question with which Nell Gehrke of the Mill City Farmers Market’s Greens for Good program starts many of her Saturdays. Her volunteers often guess that it means “green cleaning” or “glamorous cleaning,” a la “glamping.” But contrary to these speculations, no brooms or mops are involved. Gleaning is the act of going over a farm field or area that has just been harvested and gathering any usable parts of the crop that remain. Gehrke and her team do this at the market too. Mill City Farmers Market has been working with Augsburg’s Campus Kitchen since 2013, collecting excess produce from farmers at the end of the day for the Market’s Greens for Good gleaning program. Farmers give fruits and vegetables that didn’t sell, “seconds” (produce that is slightly bruised or has other aesthetic concerns), CSA boxes that didn’t get picked up, produce that won’t survive the drive home or for any number of other reasons. When Nell and her crew arrive at the market a little before the market’s 1 p.m. closing time, they don their green vests and gather the needed supplies to collect produce from farmers: collapsible boxes, a few hand carts and a scale for weighing donations. For the first time in 2018, the market is even able to compensate farmers for their donated

product at a set rate per pound thanks to a generous sponsorship from Delta Dental. From July to October, volunteers collect over 5,000 pounds of Mill City Farmers Market tomatoes, greens, squash and more that they bring and give away at a pop-up “market” for seniors in low-income housing in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Any leftover produce is used in Campus Kitchen’s community garden lunch, the Campus Cupboard food shelf or for their Sunday night cooking class where Campus Kitchen teaches low-income and first generation college students how to prepare healthy and delicious dishes using the fresh veggies. In addition to distributing an average of 40 bags of produce on Saturday afternoons, another challenge is teaching community members how to use it. Greens for Good is working to expand its programing by having volunteers demo and sample simple recipes like the one below at its pop-up markets. On Oct. 6, the Mill City Farmers Market is highlighting its Greens for Good program and opening donations to the public. To get involved, simply purchase an extra bunch of greens, pint of tomatoes or any other product when you’re grocery shopping at the market this Saturday and bring it to the Greens for Good Delta Dental tent at the top of the market. For more, visit millcityfarmersmarket.org.

Brussels sprouts and apple salad Recipe courtesy of Mill City Farmers Market Ingredients 2 cups Brussels sprouts, shaved or thinly sliced 1 medium apple, cubed 2–3 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon honey ½ juiced lemon (about ¼ cup of juice) 1 handful of basil or mint, minced Salt and pepper to taste

Method Combine Brussels sprouts and apples in a medium bowl. In a small bowl or sealed Mason jar, whisk or shake together the remaining ingredients. Add the dressing to the first bowl and toss well. Enjoy chilled or at room temperature. Eat within a few days, as the Brussels sprouts may develop a bitter flavor if they sit for too long.

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Bread and Puppet Theater at In the Heart of the Beast Two long-running giants of communitybased puppet theater team up when the celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater, based in Vermont but currently on tour, stops by Minneapolis’ own In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. The touring show, “The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus,” a socialist-themed romp with dancing bears and grasshoppers, will feature local performers and will be followed by a puppet cabaret giving HOBT artists a chance to show off their own puppet magic.

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Women Composers Festival Seven women composers show off their stuff in an evening that includes six vocalists, violin, flute with looper pedals, clarinet, narrator, brass quartet, piano with electronics and modern dancers. The first festival happened back in 2016, as a way to uplift women musicians creating their own work. Here’s your chance to catch this year’s version at the Black Forest, where you can order drinks and German food as well. When: 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 Where: The Black Forest Inn, 1 E. 26th St. Cost: $10–$20 suggested donation Info: facebook.com/events/221303548550911

Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship The Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, which this year went to five artists selected from 249 applicants by a jury of nationally known curators, is a chance for artists making waves in Minnesota to shine. The yearlong fellowship gives them extra time, support and funding to help them grow, culminating in an exhibition at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. For the exhibition reception, you’ll have a chance to see what each of the artists — Alyssa Baguss, Josette Ghiseline, Sarah Kusa, Joshua McGarvey and Lela Pierce — came up with during fellowships, working in mediums that run the gamut: drawing, mixed media, painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance.

‘Le Cirque Féerique (The Fairy Circus)’

When: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5 Where: MCAD Gallery, 2501 Stevens Ave. Cost: Free Info: mcad.edu/jerome

Collective Unconscious Performance finds inspiration from late 17th century proto-feminist and fairytale author MarieCatherine d’Aulnoy, who along with her female peers wrote best-selling books and were the toasts of Paris under the reign of King Louis XIV. Director-designer David Hanzal and writer Emily Dendinger bring history and fantasy to life with bunraku and rod puppetry as well as masks.

An afternoon of folklore with Jack Zipes Famed folklorist Jack Zipes discusses forgotten fairytales featured in his two most recent books, “The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria,” and “Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump: A Russian Folktale.” A professor emeritus in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, Zipes has written over 40 books on folklore, stories and fairytales, so it should be a treat to hear his insights about what these old stories can tell us today.

When: Friday, Oct. 5—Sunday, Oct. 14 Where: Off-Leash Art Box, 4200 54th St. Cost: $15–$25; pay what you can Monday, Oct. 8 Info: collectiveunconsciousperformance.com

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Indigenous Peoples Day While Columbus Day might still be a federal holiday, we’ve been oﬃcially celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day since 2014 in Minneapolis. Native American organizations in Minneapolis will mark the occasion with a festival during the weekend prior, plus more celebrations on the day itself.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY FESTIVAL

‘THE EAGLE AND THE CONDOR — FROM STANDING ROCK WITH LOVE’

This two-day event features an art market, food and performances by musicians and dancers.

A film that blends myth and documentary, with footage taken from the Standing Rock encampment. When: Monday, Oct. 8. Reception at 6 p.m., screening at 7 p.m. Where: Augsburg University Sateren Auditorium, 715 22nd Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: augsburg.edu/filmseries/2018/07/18/the-eagleand-the-condor-from-standing-rock-with-love

When: 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6; noon–5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 Where: E. Franklin Ave. Cost: Free Info: nacdi.org

ST. PAUL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY PARADE

INDIGENOUS FOOD TASTING

Starting at the American Indian Magnet School, the parade culminates at Mounds Park, where there will be speakers, activities and food.

Native American chefs share the art of indigenous cooking at this event organized by Dream of Wild Health.

When: 11 a.m. (parade lineup begins at 10 a.m.), Monday, Oct. 8 Where: American Indian Magnet School, 1075 E. 3rd St., St. Paul Cost: Free Info: Email danielle.delong@ho-chunk.com with questions.

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Twin Cities-based rock band Wild Age will play a release show at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry on Thursday, Oct. 11. Submitted photo

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Wild Age’s debut record “Sea of Health” eases you into its melancholy sound. It isn’t emo music, says the five-piece alternative rock band out of the Twin Cities, unlike a lot of the pop-punk music several of them grew up with. Rather, the LP, due to be released Oct. 12, is born from the men behind Wild Age moving past a few years of less-than-ideal Great Recession-era jobs after college. They needed an attitude adjustment after feeling isolated and negative. “(‘Sea of Health’) came out of a period of time of reassessing what daily life looked like,” said frontman McCoy Seitz. “We were working jobs we had no ambitions within and just trying to get rid of debt.” Seitz started the band in 2015 with longtime friend and multiinstrumentalist Blair Ransom, who supplies keys, guitar and backing vocals for Wild Age, and guitarist Matt Ahart. Wild Age put out two EPs, 2016’s “Two Palms” and 2017’s “Wild Age Goes Crazy,” with the help of drummer August Ogren, a producer at Petting Zoo, a Northeast Minneapolisbased music studio. This past winter, a session musician, bassist Leng Moua, joined the lineup. With a permanent group of musicians, the band set out to record its first album. Within four or so months, Wild Age went from demos — including four Seitz recorded with a drum set in his living room — to recording “Sea of Health” live as a band in Northeast. “It does feel like more of a crystallized version of what we were trying to do a few years ago,” Seitz said. “It sounded better. It felt right. It felt natural,” Moua added. The album, which isn’t far off from an EP with seven songs and an outro track, is full of twangy guitars, synthlaced melodies and Seitz’s capable voice, which matches the batch of humbling, if not vulnerable, songs.

There’s a depth and churning groove that lives up to its nautical name. “Sea of Health” is an approachable rock ’n’ roll record stemming from the fact that the five sought to craft catchy songs with “pop sensibilities.” “For us, the complicated part was figuring out what’s hooky,” Moua said. “And being tasteful about it,” Seitz added. The craft comes down to the dynamics of the band and how each player listens to each other, which Ransom said helps make big moments big and small moments, well, small. “People say, ‘You can really hear every instrument and every instrument has its place,’” he said. “Saint Norman,” with its teetertottering melody, compares an ex and a cat that both left their mark during past relationships (“All the scabs you left from the times that you dug your claws too deep / remind me as they crack and bleed”). The title of the record comes from the next track, “Vitamin,” which is about, as Seitz put it, him “being negative about other people doing things that make them feel good.” Wild Age will play a release show at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. with openers Lucid Vanguard, a Minneapolisbased alternative folk band, and The 4ontheflor guitarist Nick Costa. Physical copies of “Sea of Health” will be available at the 18-plus show. More of Wild Age’s music can be found at wildagemusic.com.

ART

It’s alive!

The story of Frankenstein — or, as an English major like myself will remind you, his monster — just won’t die. And for good reason. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s genredefining novel about the scientist and his misunderstood, if not infamous, creation. It’s also been three decades since local playwright Barbara Field adapted the monster story for the Guthrie Theater, which is now restaging “Frankenstein – Playing with Fire.” Field, a founding member of the city’s Playwrights’ Center, blends time and space on stage, putting Victor Frankenstein and the creature at “the top of the world” — the Arctic Circle — as they view the creation story from Victor’s adolescence to the lightning in a bottle moment. The two minds debate existence itself, good and evil, object and subject to their ethical extremes. As Field

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LOCAL

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FLAVOR

Clubhouse redux

By Carla Waldemar

WHAT IS IT ABOUT BUNGALOWS? Their owners seem to bond with almost religious fervor, trading decorating tips, subscribing to special magazines and organizing walking tours. There’s no such reverence for Colonials or split-levels that I know of. The city’s unofficial clubhouse for our local devotees was their beloved neighborhood institution Craftsman. I could hear the gnashing of teeth all the way from East Lake Street to Uptown when the owners called it quits. The mourning’s over. The café has reopened as the Bungalow Club — with the same near-sacred decor that the new owner wisely left untouched. The menu’s brand new, however, under the helm of Andrew Kraft, who’d previously cooked at Grand Café. It’s a modest list, arranged (a la Alma and Corner Table) into three sections: starters, small (in this case, pasta) courses and entrees. Here, unlike those role models, diners are not obligated to devour all three; each item is priced a la carte (and reasonably, at that). What unifies them? What theme, what style, what focus? Got me.

Starters, for instance, catapult from ribs to octopus to fried zucchini. What’s constant is a sense of playfulness, a why-not kind of pairing of elements that actually works, item by item, even if a cooking credo doesn’t come into focus. And it probably doesn’t matter. Back to those starters ($9–$13). The chilled salad of pearly octopus coins tossed with shaved fennel was enhanced with roasted apricots and creamy dollops of burrata cheese, all laced with a mild, almost fruity vinaigrette. And the ribs? Huge, ultra-meaty pork bones to which a sweet peach piri piri clung. They rested on a platter scattered with herbs and dotted with bits of radish and celery and blue cheese. Crazy, again, but mighty tasty. Those two starters could form a complete dinner for the less-than-famished diner. Starters also include bean salad, gem lettuce salad and that fried zucchini, here dressed up with pecorino and chili aioli. The momentum continued with the pasta course (half or large portions $9–$12/$15–$19). The zucca number featured nicely chewy, house-made pasta nuggets tossed in a sweetsour agrodolce sauce, along with tender strands

of long-simmered pork shoulder and bits of broccoli — a pleasing, no-surprises combo. But then, the mezzalune! The half-moonshaped pasta pockets incorporated hibiscus in their dough, which held a filling of smooth ricotta blended with brown butter sauce, poppy seeds and “some green things,” according to the menu (read: pleasing herbs). The composition came topped with beetgreen tendrils, slim green beans straight from garden and sherry vinaigrette. It’s a little much (the raw beans, for instance, are excessive) but a lot of fun. Also listed: tortellini, rigatoni and a simple spaghetti. Servings were so generous that we bailed before the entrée course: burger for $14 to sirloin for $25, along with salmon and smoked chicken. Add sides if you wish: fingerlings, farmer greens and creamed corn (a bungalow kitchen staple, after all). I’m glad to report that we revived in time for dessert ($7–$8), because they’re the best I’ve encountered in a long time: not the tired listing of molten chocolate, creme brulee and cheese-

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