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Good food at school
USDA recognizes Minneapolis district as a leader in school food
All Minneapolis Public Schools sites now have salad bars featuring local produce at lunch. Photo by Zoë Peterson By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@journalmpls.com Bertrand Weber ran five-star hotels and high-end restaurants. Now he puts good food in Minneapolis Public Schools. “We’re the best kept secret,” Weber said. “I run the largest restaurant franchise in the Twin Cities.” Weber, the district’s director of Culinary and Nutrition Services, serves more than 43,000 meals every day at 73 schools without high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, artificial colors or preservatives. This is known as “true food.” Under Weber’s direction, the district is leading the way with a farm-to-school program, a garden-to-cafeteria pilot program, family-style dining and higher service standards. Katie Wilson, deputy undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food,
Nutrition and Consumer Services, toured the some of the district’s schools and kitchens on Sept. 23. Wilson said she tours districts that are doing innovative and “outstanding” work worth highlighting. “I visit when a program is doing extraordinary work: out-of-the-box thinking that’s in the best interest of the kids. That’s exactly what we saw here,” Wilson said. “There are great programs all over the country, but Minneapolis is moving the dial forward and pushing the envelope, saying it’s not school food, it’s good food at school, and that’s exactly the idea we want to get across.” SEE GOOD FOOD / PAGE 12
Debate emerges in the vote for co-op consolidation
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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com Thousands of co-op members are voting this month to decide whether bigger is better. Three Minneapolis co-ops — Wedge, Eastside and Linden Hills — are proposing a merger to form a single cooperative with bigger profits and more efficient buying power. The issue has some Eastside board members running for re-election this fall under a platform opposing consolidation. Opponents say the merger would corporatize their co-op, a place where profits shouldn’t be a driving force. Some have picketed outside the Wedge, holding signs with slogans like: “Why put all our eggs in one basket?”
The consolidated co-op would have more than 32,000 members and $75 million in sales with projected annual savings of more than $300,000, increasing pretax operating income by 29 percent in 2018. Supporters of the consolidation say the merger would grow the cooperative economy and free up money for investment in the community. Managers say the sign on the door would remain the same at each co-op, they aren’t planning layoffs and an estimated 20 percent of store products would continue to vary from store to store. “What we’re proposing here is cooperation. There is nothing really radical about
that,” said Josh Resnik, CEO of the Wedge Community Co-op.
The case for consolidation Resnik said back in 2012 there were five local stores selling natural foods. Today he estimates there are 30 competitors. Co-ops offer organic integrity, he said, but the signage at conventional grocers can mislead people who aren’t looking closely. The idea to consolidate came from Eastside Food Co-op General Manager Amy Fields. When Rainbow left the market, Fields said, many significant competitors SEE CONSOLIDATION / PAGE 8
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Board exempts government from dedication fee A fee tied to development projects in Minneapolis that was meant to raise money for parks facilities was amended by Commissioners, who made local government exempt from the fee. Beginning in January 2014, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board collected parkland dedication fees through assessments on new construction projects within the city. The program builds up funds exclusively for new park services rather than for maintaining pre-existing
parks. The idea is to add amenities inside each project’s respective neighborhood to account for new residents and other users. Affordable housing projects and developments smaller than 5,000 square feet are exempt, but the City of Minneapolis, for example, has had to pay fees when constructing new city-owned projects. The amendment, which commissioners passed Sept. 21, will eliminate governmental units from the ordinance and refund more than $36,000 to the City of
Minneapolis and Minneapolis Board of Education. The Park Board accumulated the fees on projects ranging from the Target Center to an elementary school, according to a board report. City Council President Barb Johnson introduced an identical version of the amended parkland dedication ordinance in August for the City of Minneapolis. In order to avoid the fee, developers are able to dedicate private land for public park use, though the land is still privately
owned. One of the first projects to do so, the Mill City Quarter residential project in downtown Minneapolis, recently opened a woonerf to the public. The multi-modal area features parking, landscaping and a gated connection for pedestrians and bikers to the Mississippi riverfront where the Park Board is slated to build the new Water Works park. Commissioners are expected to approve new schematic designs for the project’s first phase this fall.
Beltrami Park gets timber-frame pavilion Beltrami residents and park leaders gathered in September to mark the opening of a unique timber-frame pavilion in the neighborhood park. Building and raising the unique 26-foot tall pavilion was a month-long process of carving timbers, which are carefully fitted together with complex joints and secured with wooden pegs instead of nails. The structure can accommodate up to 20 people at one or two picnic tables. The project is possible thanks to a grant from U.S. Bank’s Places to Play program, which awarded the Beltrami Neighborhood
Council $27,000. The neighborhood group matched $25,000 of the grant through its Neighborhood Priority Plan funding. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board jumpstarted the project with $8,000 from Commissioner Liz Wielinski’s District 1 funding. Other partners include Clark Bremer, a member of the Timber Framers Guild, and Spark-Y, a local nonprofit that helped build a timber frame project at Northeast Minneapolis’ Edison High School. “This distinctive new picnic shelter will be a wonderful new community gathering place and the creativity, resourcefulness
and talent that is bringing it to fruition is a perfect example of what makes Northeast such a great place to live,” Wielinski said in a statement. The project comes at the same time another unique timber project is preparing to open in the North Loop. Houston-based Hines has constructed T3, the first modern mass timber construction building in the United States. The seven-story office development will open to tenants this fall.
District 1 Commissioner Liz Wielinski celebrates the opening of Beltrami Park’s pavilion. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
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The historic Jackson building will see new life this fall as the Hewing Hotel. Submitted image
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A former farm equipment showroom in the North Loop is set to become a boutique hotel and chef-driven restaurant this fall. Chicago-based Aparium Hotel Group and Milwaukee-based developer Fe Equus have modernized the 1897 Jackson building at Washington & 3rd into the Hewing Hotel, a 124-room hotel with a rooftop bar and pool. This is the first Minnesota property from Aparium, which is known for the Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee and the Charmant Hotel in La Crosse. They’ve kept much of the building’s original wood and brick. Valerie Casper, Aparium’s regional director of sales and marketing, said they’ve designed the Hewing to not be “too modern,” so hotel guests and the public are comfortable visiting. “We want people to come here, spend time here and not feel like they’re just sitting in a hotel,” she said. The Hewing features four floors of rooms with locally minded names like Itasca Kings, St. Anthony Suites and Dubuque Doubles, not to mention custom wall coverings featuring Minnesota wildlife like loons and deer. One of the hotel’s highest-end rooms, the George Henry Suite, is named after the building’s original owner and features a private bar and living area. Rooms start around $159 per night, Casper said. The hotel has two large meeting and event spaces, including the 3,000-square-foot Andrews Ballroom on the first floor with a capacity of 176 banquet-style or 250 with cocktail seating. The Commissioner Boardroom, at 870 square feet, accommodates up to 16 guests.
The Hewing will have a yoga studio and fitness room in the basement. Fitness studio Alchemy, which has locations in the North Loop and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods, will partner with the hotel’s fitness program. On the roof, the hotel has a bar that will be accessible to the public after 5 p.m. A rooftop pool, lounge and sauna will be open to hotel guests and to the public through a year-round rooftop social club membership. The bar will offer its own food and drink menu, mainly charcuterie, small plates and seasonal beverages. Tullibee, Hewing Hotel’s full-service restaurant, will offer a classic craft cocktail program, house-made sodas and coffee from Minneapolis-based Spyhouse Coffee Roasters, which has a café on the north end of Washington Avenue in the neighborhood. Executive chef Grae Nonas is coming up from Austin, Texas to lead the restaurant. He plans to serve a Nordic menu featuring whole animals from an in-house butcher, smoked fish (the restaurant is named for a Minnesota fish) and locally sourced, seasonal ingredients. Nonas is one of the 2015 Food & Wine Best New Chefs and was nominated for the James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef award earlier this year. Tullibee will have a wine cellar and an open kitchen with a chef counter where diners can see into the kitchen. Diners will be able to reserve a chef’s table with a curated menu. The Hewing and Tullibee are expected to open this November at 300 Washington Ave. N. The hotel has begun booking rooms after Jan. 1, 2017.
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Despite the name, Fly Feet Running is more than a running club. The fitness studio and apparel shop offers unique high-intensity interval training that gets members moving between running, strength training and more in a spin class environment. Owner Kristin Shane plans to open Fly Feet on the first floor of the 15 Building — known for the Bob Dylan mural on its west side — near the corner of Hennepin & 5th this fall. While running is the most popular form of exercise, Shane, also a marathon runner and personal trainer, said fitness studios aren’t catering to runners who are running in circles fitness-wise. “Runners log miles, but miles don’t make you better. Miles don’t make you faster. Miles don’t make you more fit. Miles don’t make you stronger,” she said. “What makes a runner better are sprints, hills, mobility work — all the stuff runners hate doing — and when you look at the fitness industry, no one is addressing runners.” Shane left a job in merchandising at Target in February to start Fly Feet. Aaron Leventhal, a former Minnesota Thunder player and coach, as well as founder of Fit Studios in St. Louis Park, is Fly Feet’s head of fitness and coaching. Fly Fitness coaches — the studio has coaches rather than instructors — introduce hour-long group classes by giving an overview of the intervals, telling members how workouts should look and feel, and offering personal training advice. Leventhal said their 20-person classes move minute-by-minute between an aggressive regimen of running on treadmills, lifting kettlebells and an array of other activities that change every day and get people outside their typical workout.
Fly Feet Running. Submitted photo The classes should feel like 20 one-on-one personal training sessions, he added. “We’ve found a way to marry the dynamic of training that is effective, provides results, has efficacy and, most importantly, is fun,” Leventhal said. Fly Feet is open to people of all fitness level. It offers monthly memberships and class packages. The 5,900-square-foot studio, planned for the former Whiskey Junction restaurant space in the 15 Building, will also sell athletic and athleisure apparel from well-known companies like Under Armour and emerging brands like Splits 59, Vimmia and Lukka Lux. Fly Feet will have a booth at the Twin Cities Marathon Expo at the St. Paul RiverCentre, 175 West Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, on Oct. 7-8 where it will sell discounted memberships and apparel. The studio will have a soft opening during the week of Nov. 7–13 featuring free classes. Fly Feet Running at 15 S. 5th St. officially opens Nov. 10.
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CoCo will expand its original location in downtown Minneapolis’ Grain Exchange building later this year. The additional 15,000 square feet of space will increase the office’s capacity by 250 people or about 23 businesses of two to 10 people, the company said on its website. The build out will focus on the needs of small businesses and startups. Amenities include meeting rooms throughout the building and a private mother’s room. In addition to the downtown office, CoCo has locations in Uptown, Northeast, St. Paul’s Lowertown and Chicago’s West Loop. The expansion is expected to open in December on the fourth floor of the Grain Exchange building at 400 S. 4th St. “This expansion is equivalent to the opening of a new location for us, in terms of the space we will occupy and the dedicated
CoCo’s expansion in the Grain Exchange building. Submitted image space options we are building for members,” CoCo CEO and co-founder Kyle Coolbroth said in a statement. “Over the past few years, we’ve learned a lot about what entrepreneurs and small businesses want and need in a work environment and this new build out and updates to our spaces will reflect that.”
Bunny’s Bar & Grill will get a Minneapolis location in the former Community Keg House space. Photo by Eric Best
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Bunny’s Bar & Grill of St. Louis Park is opening another location in the former Community Keg House space in Northeast Minneapolis. The pour-your-own-pint taproom closed over the summer after opening in January in the Sheridan neighborhood. Bunny’s, a well-known sports bar just outside Minneapolis, hopes to open in the nearly
4,000-square-foot space this November. “We are so excited to be expanding our brand,” the restaurant wrote on Facebook The sports bar, which first opened in 1933, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bunny’s Bar & Grill’s new restaurant will be located at 34 13th Ave. NE in the Keg House Arts Building off Broadway Street.
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Turkey to Go recently closed its skyway restaurant in downtown Minneapolis’ Baker Center. The turkey sandwich and salad company from local owners Daniel Perkins and Drew Levin operated the location for about five years. The two also host the HGTV show “Renovate to Rent” and develop real estate.
Turkey to Go has a food truck — usually located near 8th & Nicollet — and stands at Target Field and the Minnesota State Fair. The company also caters. Turkey to Go closed its skyway eatery in the food court of St. Paul’s Alliance Bank in 2013.
Noted A Starbucks coffee shop is being planned for the Nic on Fifth luxury apartment tower near Nicollet & 5th, according to an inspection permit filed in September with the City of Minneapolis. Bloomington-based coding school Prime Digital Academy recently announced it would move its Bloomington campus to downtown’s Grain Exchange building next January. The company will launch a new program option focused on training user experience designers in the new location.
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In-person absentee voting available at four locations Election Day 2016 arrives on Nov. 8, but there’s no need to wait: Minneapolis residents can vote by mail or in-person at any of the city’s four early vote centers. This is the first presidential election year since state law changed to allow for no-excuses absentee voting, meaning any eligible voter can vote early for any reason. City election officials say voting early is a way to avoid Election Day lines, and it can ease the process for those that require special accommodations or assistance to vote. Anissa Hollingshead, communications and outreach manager for the Minneapolis City Clerk’s office, said voters should be able to get in and out of an early vote center in just 5–10 minutes if they follow three key steps:
• Downtown Early Vote Center, 217 S. 3rd St. (City Services Building) • North Early Vote Center, 2100 Plymouth Ave. N (Minneapolis Urban League) • South Early Vote Center, 1860 E. 28th St. (former Roof Depot building) • Northeast Early Vote Center, 2516 Central Ave. NE (Water Bar building) The early voting centers remain open through Election Day eve on Nov. 7. Hours are 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. for the first few weeks and expand to 7 a.m.–6 p.m. after Oct. 24. Hollingshead said the city wasn’t quite sure what to expect in terms of turnout. Asked about the estimated budget impact on the City Clerks Office, she said that information was not yet available. Paper ballots cast within a week of Election Day go directly into vote tabulators for counting. Votes cast earlier in the absenteevoting period will be placed in envelopes and held in a secure location at the early vote centers before being transferred to City Hall, Hollingshead said. Absentee voters who change their minds may request to cancel their ballots, but must do so at the close of the business week prior to the week of Election Day (which this year would be Nov. 4). The offices on this year’s ballot include: president and vice president; U.S. representative (District 5); state senator; state representative; judicial offices; and Minneapolis Board of Education (districts 2, 4, 6 and at-large). For those who wish to wait until Election Day to vote, polls will be open 7 a.m.–8 p.m. To find your polling place, go to vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/where-to-vote.
• Voters should check to make sure they’re registered to vote or pre-register online by visiting vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/ register. • Fill out an absentee ballot application in advance. Applications are available for download at vote.minneapolismn.gov/ voters/absentee. • Review a sample ballot to prepare for voting. Sample ballots are available at vote. minneapolismn.gov/voters/ballot. Early voters may also register to vote and complete absentee ballot applications when they arrive at an early voting center. The preregistration deadline is Oct. 18, but state law allows voters to register in-person at an early voting center or at their polling place on Election Day. Minneapolis residents can cast a ballot at any of the four early voting centers, which opened Sept. 23. The locations are:
Clock tower overhaul underway An overhaul of the City Hall clock tower kicked into gear in the last week of September as crews removed the first of four clock faces. Municipal Building Commission Director Erin Delaney said the goal of the roughly $2.1million project was to restore the clock to its historically accurate appearance. Neon tubing added in 1949 was removed. The restored piece will once again be backlit, as it was originally, Delaney said. “The timing element works just fine. That’s not part of the project,” she said. “But the white face will be replaced and the rolled steel will be replaced with cast aluminum.” Porcelain-enameled steel clock faces were added to the clock tower in the middle of the last century. The original faces were glass,
and the restoration will add back white glass to the clock. Delaney said replacing steel clock parts with cast aluminum would limit corrosion and cut down on maintenance. The new clock parts are being made and tested by Brooklyn Park-based Versacon. “One thing we have learned is that the condition of the steel and the porcelain is much more damaged and distressed than we originally estimated,” she said, adding that the extent of the damage could influence the timeline for the project. For now, the goal is to replace all four clock faces by the end of 2016. The south-facing face was the first to come down.
Council adopts bird-safe skyway amendment Spurred by a desire to prevent bird deaths, the City Council on Sept. 23 voted to add skyway design requirements to the Minneapolis zoning code for the first time ever. More than eight miles of the enclosed, second-story walkways connect buildings in downtown Minneapolis, and others can be found on university and hospital campuses outside of the downtown core. Almost all skyways are privately owned, and up until the Council’s vote, standards for their design were set by the Skyway Advisory Committee, a 19-member group representing downtown property owners and skyway users whose members are appointed by the Downtown Council. Senior City Planner Aaron Hanauer said the relatively informal review process worked pretty well “so there hasn’t been a huge push to try and change that” — until last year, that is. In the spring of 2015, City Council members Cam Gordon and Linea Palmisano announced their plans to craft a bird-safe skyway ordinance. They meant to limit the casualties caused by birds accidentally flying into clear or reflective glass. Hanauer said the only way to do that was to bring all skyway design requirements into the city’s zoning code. A year-and-a-half later, the zoning code text amendment approved by the Council largely adopted the same standards previously set by the Skyway Advisory Committee. The fact that they’re now on the books, Hanauer said, gives them “teeth.” They will apply to all new skyways that cross a public right-ofway but won’t force skyway owners to make any retroactive updates to existing skyways. The new code requires all skyways to be at least 80-percent clear or lightly tinted glass, a feature Hanauer said enhances skyway safety and helps skyway users orient themselves to the city streets below. At least 85 percent of that glass must be covered in bird-safe treatments — typically, dot or line patterns on the glass that help birds recognize the skyway as a barrier, not a pass-through. “The skyways are a classic see-through hazard,” said Joanna Eckles of Audubon Minnesota who, as the bird-friendly communities manager and coordinator of Project BirdSafe, studies bird-glass collisions. Eckles advised city staff on the development of the bird-safe glass skyway requirements. Eckles said reflective glass could be just as dangerous to birds. Installing a physical barrier, such as a window screen, can help, but another option is to add tightly spaced markings to the glass. Eckles pointed to the windows on Minneapolis Central Library as an example of the second approach. New skyways will be just a tiny portion of the glass in the Minneapolis skyline, but Eckles said new skyway design requirements are an important step toward limiting the number of bird deaths caused by glass collisions. “Existing problems won’t even get considered until people realize this is a preventable problem,” she said.
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BEFORE EAST TOWN: A JOURNEY THROUGH ELLIOT PARK
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ith the new Vikings stadium and other development occurring rapidly, the Downtown East/Mill District and Elliot Park neighborhoods are transforming and thriving. The area has a fascinating history prior to the wave of $2 billion of redevelopment that made the district what it is today. There are, in fact, manifold legacies of important historical anchor institutions in Elliot Park and Downtown East that existed long before even the 1970s and ’80s, when large tracts of land were razed to create the sea of parking lots that came to service the Metrodome. Today, these institutions continue to anchor the neighborhoods of East Town, which is “undergoing an unprecedented economic renaissance,” according to Governor Mark Dayton, who spoke at the July 22 U.S. Bank Stadium ribbon-cutting ceremony. Like a skeleton is to a body, though, historic institutions are often deeply woven into the neighborhood fabric throughout multiple blocks. It is not always clear to those driving, biking or walking through the neighborhood that they are even there. One such anchor in Elliot Park is also one of the larger downtown employers: Augustana Care. When Augustana Care was founded in 1896, the organization’s original objective was to create a social ministry to aid women and children. Augustana Care now provides housing, health care and community services primarily to older adults. Augustana Care CEO Tim Tucker has served on the East Town Business Partnership Board (formally the East Downtown Council) for more than 20 years. Long before the current wave of development and in a time of uncertainty for Elliot Park, Tucker recalls, “We very much wanted to stay in the community where Augustana Care began.”
That meant large scale re-invention, because while the organization’s mission involved older adults, Augustana Care’s leadership also recognized the importance of services and housing for employees. “They are the most important part of any organization, whether it’s non-profit or for-profit,” Tucker points out. He and the Augustan leadership knew quality housing for employees at affordable rates was crucial to Augustana Care’s success. In response to these recognitions, Tucker reached out in the early 1990s to the Greater Minneapolis Metropolitan Housing Corporation, the Minneapolis City Planning Department (now CPED), Central Community Housing Trust, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority and other agencies to begin developing the area. The results can be seen along 11th Avenue South and between 10th and 11th avenues, as additional assisted living apartments were added to the original health care center. The East Village development provided new affordable housing options for both new residents and Augustana employees. Tucker also reached out to the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) to set up a clinic at Augustana Care’s Minneapolis campus, seeking to leverage HCMC’s focus on education and research. Augustana Care’s goal has always been to collaborate, particularly with distinguished organizations such as HCMC and North Central University, he said. “We hope our decision to expand in East Town affected the decisions of others who chose to stay here,” Tucker said. Augustana Care’s efforts, including the surrounding housing and mixed-use development, transformed several tracts of land around the park and helped frame the neighborhood park as the definitive center of the neighborhood. Today, the park
Local institutions shaped East Town for decades before a recent wave of redevelopment on and around the former Metrodome site. File photo boasts a new $1-million collegiate-sized soccer field built through a public and private partnership between the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, North Central Univerity and dozens of private contributors. The emergence of East Town as regional destination is one for the history books. It is to be credited to the phenominal efforts of neighborhood, city and county leadership, the private development community and the hundreds of people choosing to become new residents alongside the 10,000 who already live in Elliot Park and Downtown East/Mill District. It is important to remember, though, that in the decades prior to this moment, historic institutions such as Augustana Care, HCMC and North Central University served as the backbone of the community in less fortuitous times. Such institutional
histories model for us what can happen when people and organizations choose to stay and invest in their urban centers, enabling city neighborhoods to prosper and thrive regardlness of the ebb and flow of urban development.
Dan Collison is the director of East Town Partnership for the Minneapolis Downtown Council and executive director for the East Town Business Partnership (formally East Downtown Council).
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HOW TO VOTE Co-op members can vote on consolidation via mail, the co-ops’ websites or at the annual meetings of each co-op. Wedge Community Co-op Annual meeting: Oct. 18, 6 p.m., St. Mary’s Lake Calhoun Event Center, 3450 Irving Ave. S. Voting closes Oct. 18 at 6:15 p.m. wedge.coop Linden Hills Co-op Annual meeting: Oct. 27, 6 p.m., St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 3450 Irving Ave. S. Voting closes Oct. 27 at 6:45 p.m. lindenhills.coop Eastside Food Co-op Annual Meeting: Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m.–8 p.m., 301 on Main (Ukrainian Event Center), 301 Main St. NE Voting closes Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. eastsidefood.coop
Josh Resnik, CEO of the Wedge Community Co-op, says consolidation would boost Minneapolis co-ops. “I don’t think it’s going to change the customer shopping experience,” he says. “The name on the front door will stay the same.” Photo by Michelle Bruch
Q&A Session: The General Manager and board members answer questions about the consolidation Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Eastside Food Co-op, 2551 Central Ave. NE The group “Save Our Co-ops” is promoting an Eastside candidate forum scheduled for Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Solar Arts building, 711 15th Ave. NE. (UNFI), their primary grocery supplier, is determined by the size of the business. By merging, he said, they’d get deals on palettes of strawberries, for example, rather than buying by the case. Resnik said about 80 percent of the products in each store would be similar, with about 20 percent unique to each store. He estimated there is already 75-percent overlap today, with vendors like Featherstone Farm and Harmony Valley Farm supplying every co-op. “I don’t think it’s going to change the customer shopping experience,” Resnik said. “The name on the front door will stay the same.”
Consolidation concerns Sue Jaeger canvassed and collected checks for the Eastside Food Co-op before it opened in 2003. Jaeger said she was surprised to learn of the potential merger, and it’s prompted her to run for election to the board.
“There certainly is a lot of competition out there, but there always has been,” she said. “Co-ops don’t necessarily compete on price.” “The thing that really attracts people to co-ops is the sense of community,” said Seth Erling, who resigned from the Eastside board a few weeks ago in protest of the consolidation vote and is running for reelection. “People will drive past Cub, Aldi and Whole Foods because they believe in co-op values,” Erling said. “… In the long run, it’s going to undercut what appeals to people about co-ops.” Sixteen-year Wedge Co-op member Christopher Loch said he was disappointed about the decision to sell the co-op’s farm, and he worries that Wedge Table is draining too many co-op resources. “Consolidation really consolidates power big time, as we go from three GM’s/CEO to one over a much larger membership,” Loch wrote in an email. “So the CEO’s powers will increase dramatically while owner voices will be diluted and smaller.” Eastside board candidate Tom Dunnwald has watched the boom in natural foods grow over time, a trend that had its roots in co-ops. “Some people say, ‘We created this market, so we should own it,’” Dunnwald said. “They should say, ‘More and more people are eating better, let’s give ourselves a pat on the back and keep going.’ Why do we imagine we want to compete with Walmart? I’m glad Walmart is selling natural foods.” Eastside board candidate Dan Scoggins said
he thinks the business case for consolidation is weak. He said savings of about $300,000 per year or more out of $75 million in sales seemed small. He said the projected savings didn’t seem high enough to drop prices and invest further in the community. “It doesn’t seem like they’re focusing on the right things,” Scoggins said. “… Once the organizations merge, there is no going back.” In response to that concern, Resnik said managers are projecting profits conservatively so as not to over-promise the savings. But a $300,000–$400,000 increase in profits in the grocery industry is not insignificant, he said. “Businesses who get a 2-percent margin are doing quite well,” he said. Resnik said they wouldn’t grow profit for the sake of making profit. Instead, the co-op would have more money to invest in the things people love about co-ops, he said.
The national picture Scoggins said he sees co-op consolidation becoming a national trend. “There is a tremendous amount of pressure for co-ops to be competitive,” Scoggins said. “All this fear of competition is driving them to expand.” He noted that all three co-ops are members of the National Co+Op Grocers and work with CDS Consulting. One video cited in co-op consolidation materials is a lecture by NCG Director of Co-op Development Dave Olson.
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“Many of our co-ops are seeing negative sales growth,” Olson said, adding that declines extend to the produce and bulk departments, where co-ops were traditionally “untouchable.” He said historic growth in co-ops came from serving as the main source for organic food. “The new normal is increasingly that, not only do consumers have more choices than ever when selecting a place to go for that product, they don’t even have to leave their Festival or their Safeway or their Kroger anymore,” he said. Co-ops in Rochester and LaCrosse in operation since the 1970s merged in 2012 to form the single entity, People’s Food Co-op. Seattle’s Central Co-op and Tacoma Food Co-op merged in late 2015, according to the Seattle Times, citing greater buying power and shared administrative costs. Resnik said National Co+Op Grocers offers resources for co-ops that consolidate, but said he hasn’t felt pressure from the organization. “We are certainly not getting any pressure to do this,” Resnik said. “Co-ops are about self-determination. We made the decision.”
The path to consolidation Some former co-op board members said evaluation of the merger has been too secretive, as board members were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements before learning of the proposal. “If it’s such a great idea, let’s take time and get the facts out,” Jaeger said. “… They’re relying on people being passive and not questioning things, or not voting.” She said about 4 percent of total membership voted in the last Eastside board election. Regarding transparency, Resnik said the managers didn’t want to bring the merger concept to member-owners until they could answer hard questions, particularly
given the sensitive role of worker’s jobs. Resnik said the managers’ conversations began nearly three years ago and they spent about six months in theoretical conversation. The managers then presented the idea to each co-op board and formed a committee with members of each co-op. Fields said they spent a year studying the idea. When the three boards determined a merger was feasible, she said, they took the issue to owner-members in June. The most
detailed work of hammering out a plan took place in the past six-nine months, Resnik said. This isn’t the first time a merger has come up for a vote at the Wedge. A 1993 vote on consolidation between five co-ops failed, and the potential merger at the time included the Wedge, Seward, Lakewinds, Mississippi Market and Valley Co-op in Stillwater. Tom Vogel, marketing manager of the Seward Community Co-op, said Seward
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The Mississippi River needs help A new report suggests raking the yard, planting a rain garden, picking up after your pet and avoiding synthetic fabric are all things you can do to benefit the health of the Mississippi from home. The river meets drinking water standards and supports life, but water quality remains an issue, according to the report by the National Park Service and Friends of the Mississippi River (FMR), a St. Paul-based non-profit organization that works to protect, restore and enhance the waterway. “If you think of this like a check-up for the river, it’s sick,” said Whitney Clark, executive director of FMR. “That doesn’t mean it’s dead. It doesn’t need to go to the emergency room. And, for the most part, we know what to do to fix it.” Lark Weller, water quality coordinator with the National Park Service and co-author of the State of the River Report released Sept. 21, said life is an indication of good river health.
“The river is once again home to healthy bald eagle, mussel and fish populations. As pollution has been cleaned up and habitat restored, wildlife has rebounded,” Weller said. “These are symbols of our shared ability to rejuvenate the Mississippi River, and are an inspiration for future success.” The report looks at the 72-mile stretch of the Mississippi that runs through the metro area. The findings were mixed, but there have been major improvements since the 1920s, Weller said. Policy changes like the Clean Water Act, implemented more than 40 years ago, have been credited for improvements, but Weller said water quality experts are maxing out the corrective actions taken. Well-researched issues like invasive species, bacteria, pesticides and nitrate are still concerning. But experts know less about new problems, like microplastic fibers that wash away from our clothes; triclosan, which
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By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com The recent leak of an email sent by City Council Member Alondra Cano to council President Barb Johnson has escalated the confrontation over an ethics complaint against Cano, which has until now occurred mostly out of public view. Facing a public vote on the complaint by the City Council, Cano in her Sept. 10 email threatened to release screenshots of emails by fellow council members that she has been saving since January. Cano contends they are evidence of her colleagues violating city ethics guidelines that govern the use of city property for political purposes. The email was first published by City Pages and the Star Tribune on Sept. 22. The complaint against Cano, who Cano represents Ward 9 on the council, stems from her participation in December in a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America. When her office received messages critical of Cano’s actions, the councilwoman shared some of those messages on Twitter, including the names and contact information of the writers. “The allegation is that city property was misused for political purposes,” she said. A city spokesperson could only confirm
the existence of the ethics complaint but could not comment on its content. The section of the city’s Ethics in Government Code relating to “political activity” states: “A local official, employee or candidate for elective office shall not use city facilities, property, funds, personnel, the city logo, the city seal or other city resources to engage in political activity.” Cano contends City Council members regularly violate that section of the code when they use their personal social media platforms — including Facebook and Twitter — to share information received through official channels. “I disagreed with the findings and have kept screenshots of the ways other Council Members including CM Frey, Bender, Glidden, Abdi and others have used city property for ‘political’ purposes,” Cano wrote in the email. “If the Council votes to approve the Ethics findings I will speak out against the vote and circulate a press release to the media about the issue with the screenshots I’ve gathered since January of 2016.” “My lawyer and I are also ready to take this to the next level if the Council votes to approve the Ethics findings,” she continued in the email. Attempts to get a response from the council members named by Cano in the email were largely unsuccessful. City Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden and council members Lisa Bender and Abdi Warsame did
not return calls seeking comment. “I have no interest in getting involved,” said Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3). “I’m just going to keep doing my job.” A call to City Council President Barb Johnson also went unreturned. The City Council and the city’s Ethical Practices Board met jointly in a closed session Aug. 19 to consider two ethics complaints “against an individual subject to the City Council’s authority,” according to the council’s official proceedings. One complaint was dismissed, but the other was continued. Stephen Dent publicly identified himself as the source of an ethics complaint against Cano. Dent didn’t return a phone call seeking comment on the latest developments in the situation, but he told the Star Tribune in December he was one of the people whose contact information was tweeted by Cano. Although she later deleted the tweets, Cano was criticized for “doxing,” or posting someone’s personal information online without permission. (Dent’s message to Cano would have been subject to the state’s open records law.) “I can’t really tell you why those people were angry or upset that I was participating (in the protest) at the mall, and then they even got more upset when I responded publicly because I think they were ashamed of the messages they had
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Family-style dining Allowing students to sit in community and serve themselves at lunch, engage in conversation and share cleanup responsibilities is one of the programs MPS highlighted during Wilson’s tour. Wilson said the family-style dining at Webster Community School is the only public school she knows of that has successfully implemented the model. “The family-style dining is only in one school right now, but it’s big,” she said. “It’s a challenge and they’ve really worked around a lot of challenges.” Ginger Kranz, Webster’s principal, wanted to introduce family-style dining at lunch to give students a chance to sit down for a meal and enjoy the company of their peers. Lots of social-emotional learning happens at meal times, Kranz said, but with fast food and busy schedules, not all students get the opportunity to benefit from the teachable moments that arise around the table. “As a society, we’ve lost — I don’t want to say the art of dining — but we’ve lost the importance of family dining, family meals and what real food really is,” Weber said. “I think students, by the time students graduate high school, have not built any social skills. We haven’t taught them any table manners, any social skills. It’s just get ‘em in get ‘em out. So I think family-style dining is just perfect.”
Farm-to-table Weber started dabbling with the idea of farm-to-school in 2003. When he took over MPS’ Culinary and Nutrition Services in 2012, he made farm-to-school part of his vision for the future of the district’s programming. The result is not only fresh food in the schools but an educational opportunity for students and a boost for small farmers, Weber said.
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“It’s more than just sourcing, it’s building the partnerships with the famers, it’s contracting with small and emerging or immigrant farmers so we have an economic impact,” he said. “It’s about education, it’s about doing taste-tests, it’s about partnering with the school gardens so we can incorporate them.” The district published a “Farm to School Toolkit” describing useful tools and resources as a model for other schools interested in buying fresh, sustainably grown produce from small- and mediumsized local farmers. Monica Romero, the district’s farm-toschool coordinator, is also overseeing a garden-to-cafeteria pilot program. Roosevelt High School partnered with Spark-Y, a nonprofit that facilitates actionoriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship, to develop a greenhouse and community garden. “What’s remarkable about Roosevelt High School is that we’re able to have mixed greens through the winter thanks to the greenhouse,” Romero said. The school’s garden — which was designed, built and has been sustained by students — doesn’t produce enough to fulfill all the cafeteria’s needs. Kelly James Kidwell, a senior at Roosevelt who works on the project, said that isn’t the point. “This is an idea,” Kidwell said. “We aren’t feeding the whole school, but it’s a
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Client Service Weber said improving the experience of the client — or student, in this case — has been a focus of his work. “One of our mottos is that whenever we make a decision we always ask ourselves: Will this benefit the kids? If it’s strictly financial, we have to reconsider,” he said. Alan Shannon, director of Midwest Region Public Affairs for the USDA Food & Nutrition Service, said Weber proved his commitment to this mindset by embracing the new school meals standards that went into effect in 2012. “In this arena, Minneapolis has been a leader from the start, embracing those new standards, saying, ‘Not only should we do this, we’re excited to do this,’” Shannon said. “Bertrand sees it as an opportunity, and he’s done a bang-up job.” Weber said he is excited to make meals better for students and is about to get all of the district’s staff excited, too. Shannon said this buy-in is crucial to the success of the programming. “It takes the teachers and the staff participating with the kids more because
maybe they’re not used to these fruits and vegetables, they may not be accustomed to the food, or eating this way so they might need a little help,” he said. Weber was able to introduce salad bars into all the schools, and developed a system of prepackaging high-quality meals for schools that don’t have kitchens. After years of eating the district’s “true food,” some students eat piles of fruits and vegetables without a second thought. Wilson said she was impressed by the transformation Weber has made and the impact it has on the students. Weber said making the change wasn’t easy at first — financially or interpersonally — but now he has found his stride and has nearly realized his vision for the district’s nutrition programming. There’s more to come, he said. “I laugh with the staff because I drove them crazy. I just don’t stop,” Weber said. “We don’t refer to our food as ‘school food’ because our food is just ‘good food at school.’”
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Boundaries: The Mill District is part of the larger Downtown East neighborhood. It is roughly bordered by the Mississippi River on the north, I-35W on the east, 5th Avenue on the west and Washington Avenue on the south.
Demographics: The Mill District is part of the larger Downtown East neighborhood, which has a population of 1,623 people and median income of $74,083, according to the most recent data from Minnesota Compass. Special attractions: For the past decade the Mill City Farmers Market has drawn people to the Mill City Museum with its organic produce, wares from local artisans and live entertainment. The market, which takes place on Saturdays and is open 8 a.m.–1 p.m. during the fall, has become a year-round destination, moving inside the museum for special winter markets during colder months. The Guthrie Theater hosts regular performances, tours and other events. Guests can also get picturesque views of the riverfront and downtown Minneapolis from the theater’s 52 Endless Bridge and Amber Box. Sea Change, an acclaimed restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Tim McKee, is located on the ground floor and serves weekend brunch, lunch and dinner. 52 12 94 94
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empties into Mill Ruins Park, which boasts historic walls and waterpower features buried beneath the Mississippi riverfront. Gold Medal Park, a 7.5-acre urban park near
AN UNCONVENTIONAL STREET Outside-the-box thinking and moving on the city’s first woonerf
By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@journalmpls.com The Mill District is home to the state’s first woonerf. The woonerf — a Dutch term that translates to ‘shared street’ — is open to pedestrians, bikers and cars alike. The unconventional road creates a much-needed connection from downtown to the West River Parkway. “Within a block you’ve got this world-class natural amenity in our Mississippi riverfront, which is largely disconnected from Second Street,” said City Council Member Jacob Frye. “This provides a beautiful sweeping entrance to the river.” Before the two-block stretch was developed into a woonerf, it was a surface parking lot. Before that, it was train tracks that served the mills. “In some ways the design was predestined for us because there was this existing rail corridor that cut through the site at the angle you see the woonerf cutting through there now,” said Brady Halvorson, head of landscape architecture at BKV Group, who worked on the project. “It was a no-brainer to re-establish that connection as a way to get people from this site and further points downtown to the riverfront.” Steve Minn, vice president of Lupe Development and master developer of the three developments on the block — including the woonerf, an affordable housing development and a 55-plus community-living development — said the historical significance will be preserved. “We’ve got a few granite benches and some railroad artifacts — that’s part of our historic approach,” Minn said. “There will be 10 stainless-steel, etched historic panels spread
out through the woonerf that are going to tell the story of the railroad use of the area and the milling use of the area.” Because of the project’s proximity to the Mississippi and the city’s storm water regulations, some storm water management systems were installed. “Density and urban living should be a net positive for the environment,” Frye said. “You don’t have a net positive impact if water — runoff and pollutants — are streaming directly into the Mississippi River.” Below the woonerf is a storm water tank that will capture and treat all of the runoff from the site. Permeable pavers, pavement that allows water to seep through, were installed, and the captured storm water will be used to water trees planted along each side of the woonerf. “Environmentally, it’s going to be much better than it was previously because we’re treating all the storm water from the site, which had not happened before,” Halvorson said. Cars are allowed to drive on the woonerf and there is metered parking, but it is meant to be inviting to all modes of travel. “Our view is that although the car and the bike and pedestrian are all permitted occupants, the car is viewed as a guest,” Minn said. “It’s primarily supposed to be pedestrian- and bike-dominated space.” Frye said the city anticipates the woonerf will be a destination location. By the end of the year, the two developments on Second Street are scheduled to be complete. Restaurants and businesses will move into the first floor of both buildings.
In 2019, the woonerf will also be a connection to the city’s Water Works facility — featuring canoe rental, an amphitheater, concessions and educational opportunities — driving even more traffic to the woonerf. “As of now, we’re trying to move away from the car-centric mentality, but clearly we’re not there yet, and some of the retail would clearly benefit from few parking spaces,” Frye said. “We’re planning for a successful commercial and pedestrian hub, and that includes some parking.” Matthew Dyrdahl, Minneapolis’ bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, said a “shareduse street” pilot is in the works. The city will begin construction on a shared use street in Uptown on 29th Street this year, Dyrdahl said. “I think in Minneapolis we’re really trying a lot of different things to make it easier for people to get around the city without necessarily having to use their car, so that means making it safe to easy and convenient for people to bike and walk in the city,” he said. “Woonerfs probably aren’t appropriate everywhere, but I think they are an important tool in our toolbox for making the city as friendly as it can be for people to bike and walk.” Frye said the placement of the Mill District woonerf is advantageous not only because of the proximity to the river, but also because it runs between affordable housing, senior living and riverfront condos. “This project represents the diversification of socioeconomic income in the neighborhood,” Frye said. “This is an affordable housing project right next to a fairly high-end condominium building. I believe strongly that having that socioeconomic diversity is the way
to create vibrant and safe neighborhoods.” The senior living development, Eldercare, was meant to allow people older than 55 years old an opportunity to enjoy the city. The woonerf brings downtown to their back yard. “It’s cool that [the woonerf] is providing an opportunity for markets that are underserved in this part of town. There aren’t a lot of affordable place to live in these up-andcoming neighborhoods near the river, and there aren’t a lot of senior places to live,” said Halvorson. “It’s really cool urban stuff that’s getting built for people who don’t often have the opportunity to live in places like that.” Minn said the woonerf is only half done. Landscaping, art and furniture installation and some construction still needs to wrap-up before the bridge between downtown and the river is complete. “There’s not much to be excited about until the project is done, which will be in about six months,” Minn said. “As much as we want to be able to beat our chests and say that the woonerf is ready, it’s really a multi-phased thing. It starts now: people will look at it and say, ‘What is this? It’s a curved parking lot.’ Give me a little time! When it’s all done, this will be a major destination.”
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MILL DISTRICT RESIDENTS LEND VOICES TO NEW COMMUNITY CHOIR By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com
FYI For information on joining the Friends of the Mill District Singers, email organizer Claudia Kittock at cjkittock@gmail.com.
Singer J.D. Steele directs the Friends of the Mill District Singers choir at the Mill City Museum. Photo by Eric Best
between Kittock and the MacPhail Center for Music, which connected her with J.D. Steele, an acclaimed Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter who has performed with Prince, sung on Broadway and led choirs since he was a teenager. Steele, along with his brother Fred on piano, leads the choir through weekly rehearsals and performances around the city. The choir doesn’t require any previous experience, although many grew up singing. Members don’t have to read music or memorize lyrics as Steele directs the choir, singing every part along the way.
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A new choir in the Mill District is trying to make sure everyone’s voice is heard in the downtown Minneapolis community. The Friends of the Mill District Singers, a community choir now in its second season, is getting neighborhood residents together regardless of singing experience or financial situation. Though it’s open to all, the group is made up of residents from the Mill District, including several who live in Emanuel Housing, a supportive, sober housing development near U.S. Bank Stadium, and other local affordable housing developments. Claudia Kittock, the group’s founder, said she formed the free, grant-supported choir to connect the neighborhood’s well-off residents with those who are less visible. “Our charity is about making those invisible people a part of the community,” she said. “We all do well when we all do well.” The group, which now has a roster of more than 100 singers, started as a conversation
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“I’m the outlier,” said Kittock, who has a Ph.D. in music education, laughing. Friends of the Mill District Choir started as a pilot funded by the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association. The choir also receives support from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. It also relies on free rehearsal space at the American Academy of Neurology, MacPhail, the Guthrie Theater and the Mill City Museum. For many members, singing at such established venues is part of connecting residents into the neighborhood. The choir has performed at
events across the city, from Holidazzle festivities to a ballgame at Target Field. “It’s a big deal,” Kittock said. “The business community has been incredible.” Mill District resident Clark Wold joined the choir when it started last year. He moved to the area last fall and said he’s able to meet his neighbors through weekly Saturday afternoon rehearsals. It helps that Steele invites members to brave sharing their own story to the choir, which typically involves them singing an important song from their life in front of the group, he said. “That scares the hell out of a lot of people, but we all do it. It’s very helpful. It’s a very congenial group,” Wold said. For Anne Carrier, a Mill District resident who used to sing in choirs for years, the group provides an opportunity to meet people she wouldn’t normally meet. “To me, the backbone of this organization is the goal of bringing the neighborhood together. In this day and age, it’s critical we do that. We have to,” Carrier said. For Wold, the choir is just plain fun. “The hour-and-a-half we spend together on Saturday afternoons, I’d expect for many of us that, except for seeing our grandchildren, that it’s the highlight of the week,” he said.
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A THEATER AND ITS COMMUNITY MEET ON LEVEL NINE The Guthrie Theater’s Joe Haj on his Level Nine Initiative
By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com It’s been almost six months since the Guthrie Theater announced a $1-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its Level Nine Initiative, Artistic Director Joseph Haj’s plan to carve out a space in the institution for urgent, engaged theater that grapples with current events as they happen. In August, the theater hosted free performances of Mike Daisey’s “The Trump Card” and Carlyle Brown’s “Acting Black” — both of them examples of Haj’s vision for ninthfloor “happenings” that respond to ongoing community conversations (about the election and the roots of American racism, respectively). The new season in the 200-seat, black-box Dowling Studio that launches Oct. 7 with Jeanne Sakata’s “We Hold These Truths,” a one man show about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, is the first since the Level Nine Initiative slashed ticket prices in that space to just $9 — which Haj likes to point out is cheaper than a movie ticket. As Haj explained in a conversation with The Journal in September, ticket prices are one of those barriers that prevent some community members from engaging in the theater’s work, and the Level Nine Initiative is all about moving those barriers out of the way.
THE JOURNAL: The Guthrie Theater serves this wide and varied audience, and different people want different things out of the theater. How does the Level Nine Initiative respond to those very different needs and interests? HAJ: We have nearly 400,000 people come through the doors annually and, indeed, they don’t all want the same thing from the Guthrie. This idea that there’s a Guthrie audience that can be poured through a single funnel, I’m just learning, is really not accurate.
The two big rooms — one is 1,100 seats, the Wurtele Thrust Stage, and the McGuire Proscenium Stage is 700 seats Haj — they’re not the most intimate spaces. They’re not the sorts of spaces where you can take enormous risks — certainly nothing that goes into the main stage season. They’re real challenges. The place that I felt could be a place of experimentation in terms of aesthetics, form, theme would be the Ninth Floor. The Level Nine Initiative is really taking the idea of the former artistic director Liviu Ciulei who said that a community can be measured by the questions its theater asks. And that became the founding idea of everything we wanted to do up there, about making it a kind of agora, to use the Greek phrase — a civic space, a place of dialogue, a place to wrestle with ideas. We are an organization that is terrifically good at: Oh, here’s an idea, we want to make a play — and, you know, 23 months from now having something on the board. But what we’re not good at is: This is what’s happening in our community today, can we, two-anda-half weeks from now, have something on stage that we can be in the room with and then respond to as a community?
How does the mission of Level 9 influence the programming of the Dowling Studio? Everything in the Dowling Studio, now, is through the lens of this Level Nine Initiative, which is to say — whether they are Guthrieproduced or presented shows, whether these are inviting our colleagues around the Twin
Cities, around the state to make work with us — we’re selecting, we’re choosing our partners with the agreement and understanding that it’s work that is worthy of a conversation and those artists and creators and teams are interested in having a community component as an added part of the work that’s being done. So, in fact, everything that happens on Level 9, everything that is ticketed, is at a $9 price point. All happenings are free. I think we flatter ourselves in the theater field if we think the only reason people aren’t coming is the price point. To be very clear, I don’t think it’s the only barrier to entry. I’m not even sure it’s the principal barrier to entry. But we all know it’s a barrier to entry, and all we seek to do in these organizations is lower barriers to participation.
It may be too early to say, but are you having any success drawing in new audiences? With “The Trump Card,” Mike Daisey’s monologue, we didn’t expect we would say, “Oh, there’s a happening,” and within 90 minutes both performances were sold out. And many of the people who reserved their place to come and see it are some of the people who are already closest to us and most inclined. We’re doing some of this work in order to be available for cross sections of our community that don’t always participate for one reason or another in the Guthrie’s work, and we are still at the front end of learning how to do that most effectively. It’s a great question. Again, much of this, and the three-year funding from Mellon, is our opportunity to learn. It’s our opportunity to test our own ideas about what it means to seek a deeper engagement with our community and a new engagement with
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some of our community that hasn’t participated. We’re still at the front end of it.
Talk about the “happenings” that take place on the ninth floor. How will this space be activated beyond just plays and performances? Coming out of the Philando Castile moment here in the Twin cities, we thought: Look, we need to figure out a forum to have a community conversation around this. And so it came to Carlyle Brown and “Acting Black,” and we thought: This will be great. This is a way for us to have this playwright-artist-thinker in the room with us, and a piece of art is made and shared and a community conversation (happens) around it. Mike Daisey and “The Trump Card,” again, as we are just a few weeks away from a presidential election, is a look at a candidate who is so unlike any candidate we’ve seen in living memory.
Thank you very much, Joe. Anything else you wanted to add about the space, about the initiative? Only that one of our goals with all of the half-dozen spokes of the Level Nine Initiative — I mean, choose your metaphor; it’s a multi-pronged effort — they’re really all to test some ideas about what a theater wants to be, what our theater wants to be, and I’m really interested to see if there are lessons to be learned on that ninth floor that can’t indeed apply to our two larger spaces, as well. That sort of allowing Level Nine to be a bit of the R&D portion of the Guthrie’s work, a way to test some ideas, is just really exciting to me.
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Another wonderful way to preserve veggies for long-term storage is pickling. Against popular belief, pickling doesn’t always require an extensive canning process. Canning is a wonderful tool but is a bit intimidating for those who have yet to master it. A quick pickle can be done in mason jars and stored in the fridge for up to 6 months. Most importantly, it is quick and easy! Add pickled veggies to any winter dish to add flavor and nutritional variety.
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Uptown Food Shelf director Rebecca Spence demonstrates how staff members and volunteers fill orders for clients. The food shelf serves about 33 families each day, providing them with about 21 pounds of food per person. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Joyce Uptown Food Shelf helps to maintain an active, healthy community
Providing emergency food to hungry people Nearly 10 percent of households in Minnesota struggle to find enough food on any given week, according to the organization Feeding America. A food shelf in Uptown is working to reduce those figures. The Joyce Uptown Food Shelf provides people in need with about three days’ worth of food once a month at no cost. It has three part-time staff members but is otherwise run by volunteers. “What we do here is feed people so they can be that active, healthy part of the community,” director Rebecca Spence said. Joyce Uptown Food Shelf started in 1969 as a project of the Joyce United Methodist Church. The Lake Harriet United Methodist Church has continued the organization’s work since the Joyce churched closed in 2013. The food shelf provides people in need with everything from milk, eggs and butter to chicken, olive oil and fruit. It also has household items such as toilet paper and pet food, of which households can take two per visit. The food shelf also distributes produce from the Soo Line Community Garden, which has a plot dedicated to the food shelf, bread from The Wedge Community Co-op and Lucia’s Restaurant, produce from Linden Hills Co-op and a variety of Address: foods from Whole Foods Market. 3041 Fremont Ave. S. The food shelf allows clients to visit once a month and provides them with 21 pounds of food per person on average, Spence said. It feeds about 33 families per day. In August, it served 17,928 pounds of food to 322 families or Contact more than 900 individuals. 825-4431 The food shelf also registers voters and provides a taxi service that clients can utilize once a year. Staff members are constantly responding to requests from clients. Spence noted that she is working on getting peanut Website butter without added sugar after at least 12 clients requested it. joyceuptownfoodshelf. Board member Jim Koon said the food shelf’s proximity to uptown allows people from all over the city to access it. There org aren’t other food shelves in the area, he noted, making the organization’s work all the more important. “This is just trying to get families over the margin,” Spence said. Year Founded 1969
‘Struggling with making ends meet’ Tom O’Neill, director of individual major gifts at Second Harvest Heartland, said food insecurity can affect behavior and learning in kids and can increase the risk of chronic health conditions in seniors. “When kids are hungry, when they don’t have enough food over a sustained period of time, they’re going to have issues with growing and just learning,” he said. Hunger costs Minnesota $1.6 billion each year in health care, hospitalization, medication, education and other costs, according to a 2010 University of Minnesota study. It doesn’t just affect people in inner-city or rural areas, O’Neill said, adding that his organization has seen food insecurity levels stay steady, despite the improving economy. “These people are still struggling with making ends meet,” he said. “They’re still having to make hard decision between: Do I pay for the heat, do I pay for the medication that I need or my kid needs, or do I put food on the table?” Food shelves such as the Joyce Uptown Food Shelf are helping people such as Brenda Gomez avoid those quandaries. Gomez came to the food shelf on a recent afternoon with her husband, their 2-year-old daughter and her husband’s grandma. She’s visited the food shelf each month since her cousin brought her a couple of years ago. “Everything’s good,” she said of the food shelf, noting the organization’s good service. An Uptown Rotary volunteer filled Gomez’s order while she and her family waited in the lobby. They were in and out in about 15 minutes with several boxes of nutritious food in tow. “We just feel that hunger is something that keeps people from being a complete partner in our community,” Spence said. “We feel that if people are fed then their contribution to society is reflected.”
What you can do Donate financially. “Cash goes a lot further than food,” Spence said, noting that the food shelf staff can buy products cheaper in bulk. People can donate online or with a check. Volunteer. The organization is looking in particular for people to pick up bread from The Wedge and Lucia’s and for a desk volunteer on Thursday nights. Donate food or non-food items. Staff requests that people call ahead before dropping off donations.
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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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Hewing Hotel Chicago-based Aparium Hotel Group and Milwaukee-based developer Fe Equus are preparing to open the 124-room Hewing Hotel this fall in the historic Jackson building in the North Loop. The hotel will be home to the 3,000-square-foot Andrews Ballroom with a capacity of 176 banquetstyle or 250 with cocktail seating, as well as the Commissioner Boardroom with room for 16. It will also feature the Nordicinfluenced Tullibee, a full-service restaurant with coffee service and a cocktail program. Guests and social club members will be able to use a year-round rooftop bar, pool and sauna. The hotel has begun booking rooms after Jan. 1, 2017.
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office building, apartments and a parking garage on a large surface lot in the North Loop. The lot, located mid-block between 7th and 8th avenues and Washington Avenue and 3rd Street, last saw a similar joint proposal from the Bloomington-based developer and Greco Properties, but that plan was scrapped. The updated proposal features a nearly 200,000-square-foot, brick-clad office building with an 8,000-square-foot retail space on the main level, according to preliminary plans submitted to the City Planning Commission Committee of the Whole. On the 3rd Street side of the building there would be an approximately seven-story parking garage and residential structure with 44 residential units, 7,700 square feet of retail space and 274 aboveground parking spaces. There would also be 134 underground parking stalls, located under the entire site, for a total of about 400 spaces for office tenants, residents and the neighboring Loose-Wiles Building, which is owned by the developer. Residents and visitors could use the parking during non-office hours, according to the proposal.
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419 Washington Ned Abdul’s Swervo Development and CPM Companies are proposing a 10-story office building behind the Internet Exchange Building in the North Loop. New plans submitted to the Heritage Preservation Commission, which reviewed the plans in late September, call for nearly 200,000 square feet of office space, about 10,000 square feet of retail and/or restaurant space along 5th Avenue North and a skyway connection to the neighboring four-story building. The building would have eight levels of parking, including three underground and five above ground, for a total of about 480 stalls. DJR Architecture is handling the project’s design.
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Target Center The Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx announced in September plans to revamp the Target Center’s food offerings, which will now be led by chef David Fhima. The cityowned venue is currently going through a nearly $129-million renovation that will wrap up next fall. The Target Center’s menu will change in phases with the renovation, with the first changes coming into effect in the new Chairman’s Suites and Theater Boxes during the Timberwolves’ 2016-2017 season. In addition to new suites, the venue will see improvements to its exterior, sound system, lighting, restrooms and seating.
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1501 Como* CPM Companies expects to break ground in early October on a three-story apartment building on Como Avenue near the University of Minnesota. The Minneapolis-based developer is planning 30-unit building at the corner of Como & 15th in place of the Como Imports Auto Repair shop, according to plans submitted to the City Planning Commission for a mid-September meeting. The building will have some walk-out units, a common lounge area and, during the summer, outdoor seating along 15th. CPM is planning 12 enclosed parking spaces. Principal Dan Oberpriller said they’re anticipating a 10-month construction, so the building should open next summer.
Sentinel Real Estate recently announced plans to renovate Riverplace, an office complex across the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis, to add new tenant amenities and upgrade the building. Riverplace will get exterior upgrades, reconfigured hallways and wayfinding improvements through the project. Tenants will have a rooftop lounge slated to be finished this fall, along with an updated common area and a new fitness center. Colliers International Minneapolis-St. Paul will represent Sentinel for leasing services.
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Legacy Lofts After working on Shamrock Companies’ newly opened Portland Tower project, Minneapolis-based RJM Construction will oversee construction of the condo developer’s next building, Legacy Lofts. Site preparations, including the demolition of the Cenveo building, are already underway on the site, located in the northeast corner of the Downtown East neighborhood. The 1-million-square-foot building, which will range from 14 to 18 stories, will have 374 condos, playground, a pool and a green NicolletaIsland East roof forBank lawn bowling. The development team also includes Oertel Architects and BKBM Engineers. The project is slated to Loring Parksummer of 2018. open in the Downtown East PROJECTS TO WATCH and West
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Oktober56fest Fans of Northeast Minneapolis’ 56 Brewing know that the brewery is unable to pour pints in its sample room legally, but for its Oktober56fest event, all bets are off. Along with its core beers, the “garden-to-growler” brewery will have its Oktober56fest lager, Zeusus Rubus wheat ale, Railyard bourbon barrel-aged stout, Walnut Joy stout and the Dank Pale Ale. If the beer wasn’t enough, 56 will have music, food and an open garden patio. The fest runs Thursday, Oct. 13 and Friday, Oct. 14 from 5 p.m.–10 p.m. and Saturday from noon–10 p.m.
7 Sins Painter Kate Renee debuts her new three-dimensional painting technique in her second solo show, dubbed “7 Sins,” at Gamut Gallery. The Elliot Park-based gallery’s last exhibition examines the seven deadly sins, each paired with familiar pop culture icons and classic cartoon characters to create light-hearted political parody. The “7 Sins” pieces have seven layers of paint to create a multidimensional experience. Renee will discuss the work with Danielle Ricci of Borealis Dance, which will perform a dance inspired by “7 Sins.” The exhibit will have a finale show on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 7 p.m.–11 p.m. with Minneapolis-based avant-garde rock band ACTN ($10, $15 with CD). Where: Gamut Gallery, 717 S. 10th St. When: Through Oct. 29 Cost: Free Info: gamutgallerympls.com
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Minneapolis Craft Market Whether you want to get a head start on holiday shopping or simply find something a little different, the Minneapolis Craft Market is one of the easiest places to find goods from local makers and artists all under one roof. Plus, you can drink while you shop. The pop-up artisan market bounces between Minneapolis breweries on Sundays in October and early November, switching between Inbound BrewCo in the North Loop (Oct. 16, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13) and Lakes & Legends in Loring Park (Oct. 9, Oct. 23 and Nov. 6). The market’s dozens of vendors offer a variety of goods, from jewelry and pottery to clothes and décor. Where: Inbound BrewCo, 701 N. 5th St., and Lakes & Legends Brewing Company, 1368 LaSalle Ave. When: Oct. 9 and 16 Cost: Free Info: mplscraftmarket.com
THE 10,000 LAUGHS COMEDY FESTIVAL The 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, the state’s largest comedy event, returns this month, bringing together all of Minnesota’s best comics to Minneapolis. The fest will have local and national comedians performing at venues across the city, from the Comedy Corner Underground to Sisyphus Brewing and the Uptown VFW. The festival opens with a Thursday, Oct. 13 show at Sisyphus Brewing with host and famed local personality Fancy Ray McCloney and Seattle-based comic Derek Sheen. It closes with an Oct. 15 Best of the Fest event at Sisyphus Brewing showcasing the most popular talents of all the previous shows. Where: Various venues When: Oct. 13–15 Cost: $12-$18 per ticketed event Info: 10000laughs.com
Showcase Showcase Minnesota’s own Andy Erikson — a finalist on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and once named Duluth’s funniest person — will close out this 10,000 Laughs Festival showcase of both local and national acts. The show is packed with talent before the festival comes to a close. Where: Sisyphus Brewing, 712 Ontario Ave. W. When: Saturday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. Cost: $18 Info: 10000laughs.com
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NerdCon: Stories About 5,000 nerds of all shapes, sizes and fandoms are set to take over the Minneapolis Convention Center this October for NerdCon Stories. The weekend-long convention brings to Minneapolis the spirit of VidCon — California’s YouTube-friendly video conference — through mutual founder Hank Green, a well-known YouTuber, and fellow storytellers of all backgrounds. Among the eclectic list of guests are Minneapolis-based rapper and author Dessa Darling of Doomtree, Madison-based fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss and “The Fault in Our Stars” writer and Internet celebrity John Green. Where: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. S. / When: Oct. 14–15 Cost: $100 / Info: nerdconstories.com
Named for possibly the least comedic movie of recent memory, “Extremely LOL and Incredibly Jokes” brings the latest new talent to the 10,000 Laughs Festival. The event, with Boy Kisses Comedy comic Drew Janda hosting, will feature some of the best young comics from around the country each giving seven minutes of material. Where: The Comedy Corner Underground, 1501 S. Washington Ave. When: Friday, Oct. 14 at 10 p.m. Cost: $12 Info: 10000laughs.com
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Bourbon, beer — and bones? In case you needed another reason to visit the beer garden at Butcher & the Boar — beyond the house-smoked meat, beer and $3 shots — you can also help puppies when you visit. On Mondays in October the bar and restaurant near Loring Park is opening its doors to dog lovers to raise money for Pet Haven, a non-profit animal rescue organization. A portion of the proceeds the event’s sales from sausage, Fulton beer and cocktails will benefit the organization’s pups, but you can get your own pooches in on the fun too with some housemade dog treats and free toys at Butcher & the Boar. The beer garden opens at 4 p.m. for a post-work happy hour. Photo by Shervin Lainez MUSIC
ONE-MAN-BAND KISHI BASHI TAKES FIRST AVE Kaoru Ishibashi, a multiinstrumentalist and singer who performs as Kishi Bashi, returns to Minneapolis with a Wednesday, Oct. 12 show at First Avenue’s mainroom, bringing new music from his latest, “Sonderlust.” Kishi Bashi, once a touring violinist with Of Montreal, has made a name for himself with accessible, brightly lit electro-pop music since first releasing his first full-length solo album in 2012. Rather than continue with the sound of the artist’s previous violin-driven releases, “151a” and “Lightght,” the new album, released last month, ranges from haunting disco-pop (“Ode To My Next Life”) all the way to slick back beat-driven rock (“Who’d You Kill”) to deliver something more eclectic. “Sonderlust” opens with “M’Lover,” a
song that would be at home on an Of Montreal album with its restless vocals, lush strings and samples. By the end of the swoony 10-song album, produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, Ishibashi is singing toe-tapper “Honeybody” and closing out “Sonderlust” with a little optimistic romance. We caught up with Kishi Bashi before his show to talk about his new record. The Journal: First off, why did you name your new album “Sonderlust”? Kishi Bashi: I was searching for a special word that both had significance to me as well as aesthetic beauty. I stumbled by chance on this incredible blog called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” (Blogger) John Koenig creates words to describe feelings that
we don’t have words for. “Sonder” [the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own] was one of these words. Production-wise, much of “Sonderlust” feels similar to “151a” and “Lighght” with violin loops, piano, guitar, etc., but there’s a greater range of sounds and moods. Did your approach to songwriting change this time around? I took an approach that involved starting songs with samples, as opposed to violin loops that I had previously done. “M’lover,” “Honeybody” and “Ode to My Next Life” are examples of songs that started like this. This is your first time headlining a show at First Avenue’s mainroom solo. What have you learned about performing as a
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What artists were you inspired by in creating “Sonderlust”? I’m a huge fan of the record label Creed Taylor International. It’s the golden era of instrumental funk, and “Say Yeah” is a perfect example of a direct influence. Hubert Laws is my funk flute hero, and the solo at the end of the song is a tribute to him.
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