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INTERMEDIA ARTS PLANS TO SELL The organization laid off staff in September and plans to put its headquarters on the market By Dylan Thomas and Nate Gotlieb
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fter laying off all staff members in September, Intermedia Arts now plans to move ahead with the sale of its landmark building on the 2800 block of Lyndale Avenue. The sale is the only way to meet “significant outstanding obligations,” the non-profit arts organization’s co-president, Omar Akbar, wrote in an Oct. 24 email announcing the plan. Akbar added that the organization was able to fulfill its “top priority” during the financial crisis and recently issued final paychecks to the salaried and hourly workers who were laid off Sept. 29.
Purchased by the non-profit arts organization in 1994, Intermedia Arts’ Lyndale Avenue building houses a gallery, performance space and offices. It was formerly home to Bee-Line Automotive. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
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Living through flood and fire New Orleans native survives Whittier apartment fire
LynLake sketches development dreams for Garfield lot
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First in Hurricane Katrina and then in a Whittier apartment fire, Gerlaine Brewer twice lost everything she owned. “One thing I’ve taken from this experience is that people really are kind,” said Brewer, the front desk manager of the Fox Den Salon in the Wedge. “… Humanity’s not all bad.” Fire investigators said they believe an unattended charcoal grill caused the late-night fire Aug. 30 at 2448 1st Ave. S. The night of the fire, Brewer said, she chatted on the balcony with neighbors who were grilling. They offered to share the grill, which was still running hot, but she declined and went to bed. A heavy sleeper, Brewer awoke later that night to the sound of her partner screaming
that they needed to rush out of the building. She couldn’t find her cat Omar, but she knew they needed to leave when the windows started popping. “I must have been the last one out,” she said, describing how she watched the building burn before the fire department arrived. She suffered burns on her arm and down her back. “One thing I learned from Katrina is survival mode,” she said. “You shut down your emotions so they don’t get in the way.” After the fire was extinguished, residents were allowed back into the building for 15 minutes. She piled clothes into two suitcases. “Once we have a place to live, we’re going to be fine,” she remembers thinking. “Everything SEE FLOOD AND FIRE / PAGE A17
On a surface parking lot behind the Jungle Theater near Lake & Garfield, some people imagine much more than parked cars. A group of LynLake business and property owners envisions affordable retail space along Garfield Avenue, an extended 29th Street promenade, connections to the Midtown Greenway and a mid-block pedestrian plaza. As they finish paying off the $2.3 million bond that funded the Garfield lot in 1998, the businesses are talking to city officials, neighborhood groups and a developer working pro bono to reimagine the lot, which is owned by
the City of Minneapolis. Development ideas are still in the early stages, and there is no project design and no developer. At the moment, the group is consulting with the Lander Group and pursuing a parking study that would recommend the optimal amount of neighborhood parking in a new development. Today, the lot holds about 120 spaces, according to Morgan Luzier, who co-owns Balance Fitness Studio on the block. She expects her property at 2902 Garfield to become part of any new development, and she’s spent SEE GARFIELD LOT / PAGE A16
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wall, tables near the front window and counter seating with a view of the open kitchen. She will display 52 Easy-Bake Ovens that she’s collected over time, including the first-ever model from the early 1960s and the first oven Dirk received at age 8. “That was my start into baking,” she said. Dirk trained at the Art Institutes International, and she worked at the Salty Tart for several years. She helped craft restaurant dessert menus with AI instructor Pat Weber at the consulting firm Mise en Place — who is also consulting on the Lucky Oven Bakery — and created custard flavors at the former Mosaic Café in Longfellow. “I’ve wanted to have a bakery for a really long time,” she said. “Everyone who knows me knows I wanted to own a bakery.” That includes Red Wagon owner Pete Campbell, who noticed an opening at the former Pennhurst Cleaners space, told Dirk about it and personally called the building owner. The bakery is slated to open in mid-November, operating from 7 a.m.–3 p.m. daily, with breakfast and lunch available all day.
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Pop-up art sale The Center for Performing Arts is hosting a pop-up visual art sale as part of “Small Business Saturday” on Nov. 25. Participating artists will include painter Barbara Thomas and ceramic artist Jake Zeiher. Zeiher works at a home studio in Tangletown and said he’s preparing to fire bowls and teapots at a wood-fired kiln in Henderson, Minn. The fire burns at 2,400 degrees, requiring him to throw in a handful of wood every five minutes for about 72 hours.
Artwork by Barbara Thomas will appear at the Center for Performing Arts’ pop-up sale Nov. 25. Image courtesy of Barbara Thomas
The pieces take at least three days to cool down, he said. “The wood-fired process gives it a natural glaze from the flame,” he said, explaining that some of the ashes melt into the glaze. The sale is 10 a.m.–4 p.m. in the center’s sun room studio at 3754 Pleasant Ave. S.
Ceramic artist Jake Zeiher will bring woodfired pottery to a pop-up art sale Nov. 25 at the Center for Performing Arts. Photo courtesy of Jake Zeiher
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The Kings of Vintage co-owners Jake Webb (l) and Elijah Morrow buy, sell and trade vintage sneakers and jackets. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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A city staff report delivered in October noted nursing homes and other non-hospital residential care enterprises face “unique challenges” in meeting Minneapolis’ new municipal minimum wage ordinance, but the report stopped short of recommending changes to the ordinance. The authors noted it’s not the only local industry that could face some difficult adjustments when the wage floor begins to rise next year. They added that the non-hospital residential care sector “is closer to meeting some of these challenges” because the average local nursing home or home healthcare worker salary already exceeds the state minimum of $7.75 an hour. It’s more than double that rate at some large nursing homes. The City Council, which requested the report in June when it passed the municipal minimum wage ordinance, took no action in October to make special accommodations for the industry. Whether nursing homes and similar businesses should be granted some flexibility was one of several key issues still under debate as the Council neared a vote on the ordinance four months ago. The businesses rely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, and there is a time delay in receiving those reimbursements that can stretch to 18–27 months. City staff met with industry representatives to prepare the report, and their dive into reimbursement rates revealed just how “varied and complex” the system is, Deputy City Coordinator Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde told the Council’s Committee of the Whole on Oct. 18. “All of them were really supportive of our municipal minimum wage policy,” RiveraVandermyde said. “Their concern was mostly how it affected them in a place where they did not always have control over their … reimbursement rates, because they’re lagged.” Before the June vote on the ordinance, Council President Barb Johnson proposed categorizing all non-hospital residential care enterprises as small businesses, regardless of size. Under the ordinance, small businesses with fewer than 100 employees get seven years
to reach a minimum wage of $15 an hour, while larger businesses only get five years. Johnson’s proposal wasn’t included in the final ordinance. Instead, the Council voted in October to add improvements to the reimbursement system to its legislative policy agenda. “The question on (this report) was … whether that would prompt a change to the ordinance, and I think any time you have such intense scrutiny around the time you actually take your vote, having an additional change is probably unlikely, in my opinion, with the same set of people,” said Ward 8 City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden. Glidden noted that the city plans to closely monitor the effects of the ordinance on all Minneapolis businesses, and in mid-December is expected to award a contract for what “essentially will be the first really city-funded major study of impacts.” Proposals to conduct the study are due Nov. 22. Outside groups are expected to monitor the impacts of a rising minimum wage in Minneapolis, as well. “My belief is there may be several outside organizations that also may wish to do this kind of work,” Glidden said. The report on non-hospital residential care enterprises was one of two assigned to staff by the Council when they approved the municipal minimum wage. The second, also delivered in mid-October, detailed the criteria internship or apprenticeship programs must meet to pay teen workers a reduced rate — set in the ordinance at 85 percent of the minimum wage during the first 90 days of employment. The programs will have to go through a city approval process run by the City Planning and Economic Development Department. Only programs on a CPED-approved list will be allowed to pay the reduced wage, and they must have supervisors complete a training course and also demonstrate how the internship or apprenticeship will impart job skills. Programs that receive local, state or federal grants are automatically added to the approved training program list.
County plans to use iPads at the polls Hennepin County announced it planned to use iPads to check in voters at the polls for the municipal election on Nov. 7, replacing the familiar pen-and-paper system for the first time in Minneapolis. “The great thing about these devices is they really speed up the check-in process on Election Day,” Ginny Gelms, the Hennepin County elections manager said in a video announcing the change. The process will look slightly different to experienced voters. Instead of sorting themselves into one of several check-in lines based on their last names, voters will now be able to simply choose the shortest line to complete the
process as quickly as possible. As usual, voters are required to provide a signature affirming they are eligible to vote. Instead of signing in a book, voters will sign a small slip of paper resembling a receipt. “It’s more efficient, it’s more accurate, it saves us money and time,” Gelms said. Paper records will be available as a backup at all polling locations. The county also noted that the e-poll book system is not connected in any way to the ballot-counting machines. Although the e-poll book system hasn’t previously been used in Minneapolis, the county reports it was successfully used by more than 356,000 voters in 44 cities in the 2016 election.
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Council to consider occupancy limits A proposed amendment to the city zoning code that would allow for more unrelated individuals to live in one house or apartment is slated to get a public hearing in November. Late last year, the City Council voted to allow so-called “intentional communities” of unrelated adults to live together in a singlefamily home, as long as they meet certain requirements. The new proposed amendment, introduced in January by Ward 3 City Council Member Jacob Frey and referred to staff at a February meeting of the Zoning and Planning Committee, would broaden the definition of “family” in the city’s zoning code, potentially allowing for “a certain number of unrelated individuals to be considered a family,” according to a staff report. Frey, who is running for mayor, listed increased maximum occupancy limits in a section of his campaign website dedicated to the issues of affordable housing and homelessness. “More people should be allowed to live together than currently are allowed by city law,” it states. “Restrictive occupancy limits based on outdated conceptions of what a ‘family’ is supposed to look like often make life challenging for immigrant families, and I support changing these laws.” The staff report on the proposed amendment notes “Minneapolis is fairly unique” among big cities by regulating occupancy in both the zoning code and housing maintenance code. Occupancy limits in the zoning code are based on the city’s definition of a family, while the housing maintenance code limits — designed to promote health and safety — are based on the square footage of the dwelling. One result is that there are some residen-
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Council condemns Mogadishu bombing The City Council in October passed a resolution condemning a terrorist attack in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, estimated to have killed more than 350 people and injured hundreds more. “The bombings … were some of the most horrific and most devastating in decades, and I know many of our community members are just in complete shock,” City Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden said. The resolution noted an estimated 35,000 Somalis live in Minnesota, the largest concentration outside of Somalia. Many live in Minneapolis, which has cultivated sister city ties with Bosaso, Somalia since 2014. “The heart of Minneapolis is broken given the violence and the death and the destruction those bombs created in Mogadishu,” Mayor Betsy Hodges said. “There is a relationship between Somalia and Minneapolis that is clear and bright and constant and beloved, and we grieve when anyone anywhere is … killed by such horrific violence, but there is a special pain in Minneapolis now because
of the incredible relationship that we have with Somalia and the people of Somalia and because there are so many people from Somalia here in Minneapolis.” Council Member Abdi Warsame described the Oct. 14 truck bombing as “Somalia’s 9/11.” The Ward 6 alderman became the first Somali-American to win a municipal election when he won his seat in 2013. Warsame said seven of his cousins and 60 of his “mother’s kinfolk” were killed in the blast. They owned a hotel targeted in the attack, he said. “I’ve been numb for a couple of days,” Warsame said in a brief speech before the Council passed the resolution Oct. 20. “I called my mom to console her, but she consoled me because she’s very strong and very tough.” The Council’s resolution called on the U.S. to increase its aid to Somalia. Another bombing on Oct. 28 killed an estimated 23 people and injured 30, according to several news reports.
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went from professional journalist to fawning fanboy to newly-divorced-dadon-the-therapist’s-couch in a matter of 30 minutes when I interviewed Thomas Moore by phone last week. The author of “Care of the Soul,” “Soul Mates,” “Dark Nights of the Soul” and many others has been a constant companion of mine for the last two decades, and his new book, “Ageless Soul,” comes at a time when the world dearly needs a soul lift. Or maybe that’s just me, thinking that the concept of soul itself is eluding us, and that humanity is getting less and less concerned with its own soul and therefore the collective soul. “You’re one-thousand percent right,” said Moore from New York, where he was in the midst of his umpteenth book tour. “Writing in ‘Care Of The Soul’ at the very beginning of that book, and that was 25 years ago, I wrote that all of our problems — the individual’s problems and society’s problems as a whole — are due to a loss of soul. And it’s more true than ever. It’s two steps forward, one step back, and we’re going through that now. I think that’s the way society’s going, and if we can survive these back steps, society will be fine.” We’ve been lucky to have Moore keeping tabs on the state of the soul all these years. As a one-time monk, psychotherapist, musician and university professor, his work on the somewhat ephemeral notion of soul provides a welcome tool for these turbulent times. “I didn’t invent the word, but I’ve helped give it some attention in the past few years,” he said. “Many of the writers that I’ve been reading for a long time from centuries ago wrote about the soul — Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, John Keats, Emily Dickinson. So it’s out there, it’s just that we haven’t seen its relevance to contemporary life.” As such, the just-published “Ageless Soul” may be Moore’s most crucial work to date and a mustread for contemplatives of all ages. “Soul refers to our mysterious depth and substance, what remains after medicine and psychology have analyzed and explained us,” writes Moore, 77. “It is a profound sense of self, far beyond what they call ego, and it helps us connect with others. The soul offers a strong sense of identity and individuality, but at the same time it includes a felt awareness of being part of humanity. In some mysterious way we and others share an experience of what it is to be human, and we do this so deeply that, according to many traditional accounts, we share one soul.” Dealing with life and loss is a sure pathway to a soulful life. The deaths of parents, spouses, children, loved ones, pets and a sense of our former selves can take a toll on individuals, and at the moment there has been a loss of an illusion of innocence in America. The entire world, in fact, feels as if it’s going through a loss-motored transition stage — which can be good growth news.
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“The loss is not easy to handle, but I’ve always felt that a good way to get soul is through loss, and in failure,” he said. “Soul comes more from having something taken from you than being given something, I think, actually. I mean, I don’t want to say it’s unimportant to gain knowledge and have good experiences and make friends and all of these positive things, which are important. But life itself, at least half of it for most of us, is loss and failure. So I think to be a human being, you have to be able to handle both and see that they’re mixed up with each other together and you don’t separate them.” In other words, embrace the scars and let the bad times roll, as famous soul man Paul Westerberg sang it. “That allows you to be who you are,” said Moore. “You’re not your real self if you avoid or just ignore and leave out the bad times. Because they do things for you, too. The bad times really make us more ourselves and bring out our capacity and power and personalities more than the good times. Good times tend to be surrounded by unconsciousness; you don’t think much about them. “But when you have to go through something that’s challenging, you have to sort everything out. You have to have deep conversations with friends and family members. You don’t do that when you’re just having a good time. So there’s something about the disturbance of life that encourages reflection. And that is a very important step in real aging. All of us have experiences of various loss, making mistakes, and you really have to process them and talk them through and look at them closely.”
Beyond dealing with the inevitable loss that life brings, and partaking in the everyday rituals of silence, solitude, meditating, prayer, reading, art and music, what can a person do to actually gain soul? “There are a lot things, but let me mention two things, because these are the two things that are mentioned the most in the history of literature on the soul,” said Moore. “The first is friendship. Most people who have written about the soul say that the thing that nurtures it is friendship. It keeps the soul going and healthy and alive. So anything you can do to foster friendship and take time out for friendship, be it writing to your friends, an email or even a letter, or sending a little gift from out of the blue; staying in touch and supporting — all of those things are so important to a foundation for a soulful life. “Very closely related to that is a sense of home. All these great writers on soul say that you need to find the right neighborhood and home to live in and then take care of your home. Make it a warm place where you can nurture friendship and family.” What else? “These days, I’m talking about soul in terms of the aging process,” he said. “And by that I don’t mean just getting older, I mean becoming somebody. That aging is not just spending time, but going through experiences that make you into a real person and bring out your potential and your individuality. So two steps to getting some soul back, at least in the individual would be: One, say yes to life with all the invitations it offers, and the second is to process what you’ve gone through.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com
CORRECTIONS A Voter’s Guide story on page A17 of the Oct. 19–Nov. 1 edition misstated Ward 11 City Council candidate Jeremy Schroeder’s fundraising total. Schroeder raised $17,968 between Jan. 1 2016 and July 25. A listing of Park Board candidate Brad Bourn’s endorsements on page A18 misspelled the name of Council Member Linea Palmisano. To clarify a story on the Ward 10 race on page A15, Council Member Lisa Bender worked to reduce minimum parking requirements in new development near transit rather than limit parking.
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Calhoun petition is being ignored The petition that I submitted to the Hennepin County commissioners at the public hearing for the renaming of Lake Calhoun had 334 signatures stating their opposition to rename Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska. I had actually reached and listened to a total of 350 people who live near the lake, including the eight people who specifically preferred Bde Maka Ska. In total, I’ve spent about 40 hours listening to all of these people. You’d be surprised to hear the reasons that so many people in such a progressive neighborhood are against this name change, but nobody in the media seems curious. Tom Austin Linden Hills
Flood-risk disclosure law needed This fall, as we watched the devastation of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, we are again reminded of the havoc that flooding can wreak on our own communities and the cost to taxpayers around the country. Unfortunately, while some states require flood-risk disclosure for new homebuyers and renters, many families in our state are left in the dark. That means that they don’t know if they live in a floodplain, if they should buy flood
insurance or if their homes have previously been damaged by floods. The fact that some of our neighbors are unaware of their flood risk and could unknowingly be in harm’s way during the next flood is immoral and needs to be addressed by Congress. Bipartisan solutions exist on Capitol Hill — we just need Congress to enact them. This coming December, as the National Flood Insurance Program is reauthorized, I hope our elected leaders can work together to create a nationwide disclosure law so everyone buying or renting a new house is given the flood-risk information they need to make safe decisions. Matt Steinrueck Whittier
One boondoggle after another Despite crumbling roads and bridges and polls showing a majority of Minnesotans opposed to paying taxpayer money for private sports team stadiums, one boondoggle stadium has followed another. Now the boondoggle light rail is poised to slash between Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake in one of the most beautiful park systems in America. Enough already. Michael Barret Linden Hills
Key link in the Grand Rounds reopens By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
The new St. Anthony Parkway Bridge in Northeast Minneapolis has opened to traffic after two years of construction. The $31.6 million project closed off a connection over the BNSF Northtown rail yard and Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. Traffic was on the new threespan bridge, which replaces a five-span bridge built in 1925, in late October. The project pays tribute to its predecessor with a historic interpretive plaza. The more modern bridge features updated amenities for pedestrians and bicyclists. “This new St. Anthony Parkway Bridge honors the history of this corner of our city while at the same time providing for an innovative design that is safe and accessible to motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges in a statement. “Thank you to everyone — residents, business owners and visitors for your patience. Today we celebrate the fruit of all that time and work, a structure that will serve us well into the future.” The project was a collaboration between the state, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, BNSF, U.S.
Department of Transportation and the Columbia Park, Marshall Terrace and Holland neighborhood groups. The City of Minneapolis, state and BNSF contributed funds toward the new bridge. “It was a major engineering feat to construct this bridge over an active rail yard. This new bridge honors the history of the area and has new amenities for pedestrians and cyclists. It’s a project we all should celebrate,” said Ward 1 Council Member Kevin Reich, who chairs the Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee. City Council President Barb Johnson, whose Ward 4 includes the northwest corner of the city, said now that the Lowry, Camden, Plymouth and St. Anthony Parkway bridges have been repaired or replaced, Minneapolis is better connected. “We have great connections between the wonderful communities of [N]orth and [N]ortheast Minneapolis,” she said.
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“Beyond payroll, Intermedia has additional outstanding obligations that leave us with no choice other than to move forward with the sale of our building,” he wrote. “We understand the magnitude of this decision and are committed to a process that mirrors the mission of Intermedia.” The organization’s leaders gave 30 days notice to members of its ArtsHub co-working space a few days before the announcement, Akbar said in an interview. He wouldn’t comment on the specifics of the financial crisis. “Right now we’re just focused on the future,” he said. The Intermedia Arts building at 2822 Lyndale Ave. S. is recognizable for the everchanging work by graffiti and mural artists decorating its facade. For now, the organization plans to continue offering its programming. Akbar’s email stated that announcements on programming would be made in the coming weeks. He also pledged to “engage with the community to both listen and share information” when the building is ready for listing. The property is zoned C3A, a community activity center district, allowing for a variety of commercial and residential uses,
Beyond payroll, Intermedia has additional outstanding obligations that leave us with no choice other than to move forward with the sale of our building. — Omar Akbar, co-president of Intermedia Arts
Intermedia Arts’ Lyndale Avenue building is recognizable for the everchanging facade decorated with graffiti and murals. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
including multi-unit housing. Construction up to four stories is allowed by right in the C3A district, but a new building could be taller with city approval. Founded by University of Minnesota students in 1973 as University Community Video, the organization changed its name to Intermedia Arts in the 1980s, reflecting an expansion of its mission into music, performance and the visual arts. The organization purchased the former Bee-Line Automotive Building in the Wedge neighborhood in 1994. Intermedia Arts weathered at least one previous financial crisis when in 2008 grants from foundations and corporations were slashed in the midst of the Great Recession. The organization temporarily closed galleries, laid off staff and rented its space to two
nearby congregations. In 2009, Intermedia merged with Phillips Community Television. Under the leadership of former executive director Theresa Sweetland, who now heads St. Paul-based nonprofit Forecast Public Art, the organization recovered in less than two years. It ended the 2010 fiscal year with a budget surplus. Sweetland left in 2015, and in early 2016 Intermedia announced the hiring of a new executive director, Eyenga Bokamba. Bokamba declined to comment for this story. Tom Borrup, who served as executive director from 1980 to 2002, said it was difficult to predict what moving would mean for the organization. The associations and artist networks generated at Intermedia Arts would persist, he said, adding that it was
harder to say how the loss of the building would affect their energy and visibility. Borrup said Intermedia Arts was a major center of support for artists of color and LGBT artists, in particular, as well as the community activists who understand that culture “in the small ‘c’ sense of culture.” “It’s really not simply an arts center,” he said. “It’s a community hub for building on those ideas and building initiatives to bring community activists and social change activists together with creative people. While a lot of the individual artists will land doing something somewhere, where that hub of energy and synergy between artists and community activists will happen, (we) don’t know. “That may be the bigger loss.”
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Bidding reopens for Southwest LRT construction The Met Council rejected all four civil construction bids it received this summer By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com
Bidding on the civil construction contract for the Southwest Light Rail Transit Project reopened Oct. 30, about six weeks after the Metropolitan Council rejected all four bids offered in a previous round. The bids ranged from $796.5 million to nearly $1.1 billion and were rejected for being too costly. The agency also cited “responsiveness issues” in its explanation. The decision delayed work on the $1.9 billion, 14.5-mile extension of the METRO
A METRO Green Line train at Target Field Station. File photo
Green Line by about four months, pushing the projected opening date into 2022. “I think we would not recommend pursuing this path if we didn’t think it was absolutely necessary,” said Met Council Chair Alene Tchourumoff at the time. Met Council now plans to award the civil construction contract in April and break ground on the project next construction season. Included in the scope of the contract is all double track for the entire route between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie, cut-and-cover tunnels, bridges and light rail stations, among other project components. Although it wasn’t clear to many observers at the time, the “responsiveness issues” Met Council cited when it rejected the four previous bids had to do with the inclusion of firms that had been involved in either the advanced design or preliminary engineering phases of the SWLRT project. Three of the four previous bids relied on subcontractors who had worked with AECOM, the firm hired for advanced design work, a violation of Federal Transit Administration rules meant to ensure fair competition in bidding. Tchourumoff referred to it as a “conflict of interest” at a SWLRT Corridor Management Committee meeting. The invitation for bids the agency released in October lists the threedozen off-limits firms previously involved in
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SWLRT work by name. After rejecting the first round of bids, Met Council officials also said they would search for ways to trim costs from the project. Tchourumoff wrote in an Oct. 30 email to Met Council members that those adjustments included changes to the construction timeline meant to limit overtime costs and “modifications to increase risk-sharing with the contractor.” “Over the past month, the Council and Hennepin County worked with project partners to identify potential modifications and surveyed the contracting community for ideas,” she wrote. “We have taken that input and adjusted the Civil Contract documents and specifications.”
Public input on crash wall The Met Council in October also scheduled a public open house on a 1.4-mile crash wall added to the project in August. The wall, which will separate light rail and freight rail traffic along much the SWLRT route through Minneapolis, was the result of negotiations over a shared-use agreement between Met Council and BNSF. BNSF owns a portion of the future SWLRT corridor extending from roughly Interstate 394 to the North Loop.
Describing it as a “significant and substantial change” in a letter to the Met Council, Mayor Betsy Hodges and other local elected officials demanded that the agency “promptly” conduct and environmental review of the wall. That environmental review was underway in September, SWLRT Project Director Jim Alexander said. Alexander told members of the SWLRT Corridor Management Committee in September that the Minnesota Department of Transportation would also require a historic review of the wall. Its proposed location in the Wayzata Subdivision places it in a stretch of railroad corridor the agency views as potentially historically significant, he said. The corridor runs through the Bryn Mawr neighborhood, and in October the Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Organization passed a resolution noting that the wall “raises questions and concerns over the impact … on wildlife, sound and visual separation.” The resolution also called on Met Council to conduct an environmental review. Alexander said the FTA was expected to review the Met Council’s study of the wall’s potential impact and decide by December whether a deeper study was necessary. The public open house on the crash wall is 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Bryn Mawr Elementary School, 252 Upton Ave. S.
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Dateline Minneapolis
By Steve Brandt
Greening 3rd Avenue
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he downtown Minneapolis street that was supposed to become a pleasurable green promenade for pedestrians is falling well short of that goal so far. No, we’re not talking the Nicollet Mall, the street that the big cigars of downtown try to reinvent every 25 years or so at considerable public and private expense. Rather, it’s 3rd Avenue, one of the few downtown streets to bridge both the Interstate 94 freeway chasm and the river. That made it the preferred choice for those who wanted to route a north-south protected bike lane through downtown. They planned to keep the calming, landscaped medians that marked the street, putting traffic on a road diet. That plan didn’t fly after the big cigars caught the ears of a scant majority of the City Council. It mandated four through traffic lanes for most of the avenue’s path through downtown, which meant sacrificing the medians and scrapping plans to shield cyclists from traffic with colorful planters. But the payoff was supposed to be a street that offset those lost medians with flora and other greenery along the sidewalks used by pedestrians, at least shielding them from passing cars. At the end of the 2017 street work season, that greenery remains a mirage. The meager greening that’s been added to this redesigned street so far falls short of what’s been taken away. The city has added a few unspectacular planting beds at top-of-curb level. They total about 2,100 square feet. That’s far short of the size of the wide, raised medians of grasses, flowers and ornamental trees that were subtracted. The banners, movable planters and the vegetated baskets hanging from light poles mentioned in redesign layout sheets? They’re nowhere in sight. The thousands of square feet of privately planted greenery and flora that were supposed brighten the street? Not much has been added. Sure, you can find pockets of decorative plants. The Carlyle tower is artfully planted with chartreuse sedum, ornamental kales,
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hibiscus and prairie grasses that screen the drive-up entrance. Ditto for the splashes of color at the former Milwaukee Depot, with its hotels and event center. But they were there before the city promised a greener street. Too many blocks remain drab, offering blank concrete walls or unscreened parking lots. The Ameriprise Financial building at 901 3rd Ave. has a delightful water wall with grasses, birches and shrubs near its entrance, but the north half of its block is devoid of landscaping. A parking lot across the street offers more greenery in the form of weeds than from its struggling trees. Even some park-like settings could be improved. The south half of the Hennepin County Government Center site, with its circular park set within a square block, at least offers shade and a place to eat a food truck lunch. But its three city-installed planting beds offer little floral color. One block to the south at Accenture Tower, groves of trees offer a respite from the urban heat island, but it needs a refreshing of mulch at corners where foot traffic has packed the bare earth.
Some previous efforts at landscaping seem just plain tuckered out. The federal courthouse offers its grassy drumlin-like hummocks, finally looking healthy after years of effort, plus some whimsical sculptural figures. But the few gingko trees at the building’s back corner show signs of stress. One block north, the meager plantings beside the Eastside restaurant appear not to have been tended since they were planted, a few token plants surviving in a sea of mulch. Perhaps the valets the eatery boasts of could water the survivors occasionally. Nearby, two other recent projects, one public and one private, seem more serious about greening two streets that intersect 3rd Avenue. Hennepin County’s recent reconstruction of five blocks of Washington Avenue offers proof that a public body can integrate concrete with plants that soften a streetscape. The Mill City Quarter complex similarly brightens 2nd Avenue with new greenery. Don Elwood, the city’s director of transportation engineering and design, said the 3rd Avenue plantings aren’t yet complete. He said that the city and the Downtown
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Moments in Minneapolis
By Cedar Imboden Phillips
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s the needs of libraries and their constituents change, so too do their physical buildings. Uptown’s current Walker Library is its third! Here, library patrons pose for a photo in the first Walker Library’s reading room. This building — still standing across the street from the current Walker Library — was built in 1911. Uptown at the time was just entering two decades of rapid growth. The Lake & Hennepin intersection was starting to take off as the center of a major new commercial district, due partly to new streetcar lines and extensive housing construction in the surrounding neighborhoods. West High School opened at 29th & Hennepin in 1908; many of the readers in this photograph are likely West students. In 1981, this library — by then too small to accommodate the neighborhood’s large population — was replaced by a new building across the street. The 1980s library has since been demolished and replaced on the same site with a new library (2014), and the original 1911 library shown here has been turned into a lounge and events center. Cedar Imboden Phillips serves as the executive director for the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.
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News
By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Minneapolis Public Schools releases survey around budget Minneapolis Public Schools leaders are asking community members to take a “values” survey as they grapple with a projected $33 million budget deficit for 2018–2019. The survey asks community members to rank the six goals in the district’s strategic plan, Acceleration 2020, in their preferred order of importance. It also asks them which programs and services they’d like to see the district prioritize in terms of allocating resources. The district hopes to get feedback from more than 3,000 people, Superintendent Ed Graff said at the Oct. 10 School Board meeting. “It really is a way to try and capture some of those values out in the public,” Graff said of the survey. Graff announced the projected $33 million budget shortfall for 2018–2019 earlier this fall. District leaders are attributing the projected deficit in part to the inflationary costs of annual
salary increases and associated increases in salary benefits. The district also expects this school year’s $16.5 million deficit to continue into 2018–2019. District leaders managed a projected $28 million deficit for 2017–2018 with a 10-percent cut to central services and a 2.5-percent cut to school allocations. In June, the School Board gave district leaders authorization to use up to $16.5 million in reserves, or fund balance, to cover the remaining deficit. However, Graff has said his team is trying to find efficiencies and manage vacancies so they don’t have to use that entire amount. The use of fund balance is off the table for 2018-19, however. The district’s fund balance has dipped below the School Board-mandated minimum of 8 percent of the district’s operating budget. It’s projected to dip further below the board-mandated minimum this year with the
additional usage. The district would risk going into statutory operating debt if it used fund balance again in 2018-19. Graff and his team haven’t committed to Superintendent Ed Graff. Submitted photo any program changes or staff reductions at this point. At the Sept. 28 School Board Finance Committee meeting, Graff laid out expenditures that district leaders have prioritized over the past few years, such as class-size ratios, additional school days and seven-period days for middle schools and high schools. On Oct. 10, Graff asked board members if
they had any priorities when it came to those “big-ticket” items. Most board members didn’t offer specifics but rather stated the values they’d like to see incorporated into the budget, such as transparency and equity. “My takeaway is we’re going to move forward with a survey,” Graff said after the discussion. “… And then my takeaway is that we aren’t really limiting the conversation to saying ‘no’ to these things. We’re really just putting it out there and trying to get as much feedback as possible.” Graff’s goal is to balance the district’s budget by the 2019-20 school year. The survey window is scheduled to close Nov. 10, according to Julie Schultz Brown, the district’s executive director of marketing & communications. Visit mpls.k12.mn.us/mps_ budget for more information on the district’s budget and mpls.k12.mn.us/get_involved_4 to learn how to get involved in school budgeting.
MPS to study feasibility of district farm Minneapolis Public Schools is looking to study how it could create a districtwide educational farm model. The district is seeking a consultant to do a study on the infrastructure and resources it would need to create a farm. The district also wants the consultant to identify potential funding streams and research other local and national models. The farm would be part of the district’s broader efforts around fresh and local food, leaders say. “The farm just sort of takes us to that next level,” said Julie Danzl, student wellness manager in the district’s Culinary & Wellness
Services Department. The farm was originally a dream of the department’s director, Bertrand Weber, who took over the position in January 2012. Weber implemented a “true food” philosophy, eliminating high fructose corn syrup, trans fats and artificial colors and preservatives from district meals and snacks. He also led efforts to install salad bars in all schools, create a farm-to-school program and provide elementary students with a daily fresh fruit or vegetable snack. Weber said he always envisioned a farm as part of the approach but that he didn’t know what it would look like. The feasibility study came about when Target reached out to the district about an
initiative for social responsibility, he said. The study was part of a larger grant to MPS and Weber’s department, Target spokesman Lee Henderson said in an email. “We saw an opportunity to support a future initiative in Minneapolis to provide access to healthy foods and leverage the farm to enhance teaching and learning,” Henderson wrote. As part of the study, the consultant will identify strategies to develop the farm and implement it over the next three to five years, according to the RFP. The consultant will also gain a “thorough” understanding of the existing and potential gaps to provide an “enhanced” learning environment for students through development
of the farm, the RFP says. “We really do see this as a first step, but a critical first step, in realizing this dream of an urban farm,” Danzl said. Danzl and Weber both stressed that the farm would be more than just a way for the district to grow locally sourced food. The goal, they said, is to use agriculture as a way to tie in other components of learning. The farm could include multiple locations, Danzl said. She said her department is hoping to have the study wrapped up by the end of the school year.
Arden Park plan vote set for Nov. 9 Watershed district is considering a creek restoration project
By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
A view of Minnehaha Creek as it runs through Arden Park in Edina. Photo courtesy Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Board of Managers will vote Nov. 9 on a plan to restore the creek in a section of Edina. The plan calls for the removal of a fourfoot dam at 54th Street and the re-meandering of the creek as it runs from 52nd Street to 54th Street through Arden Park. It also calls for a new multipurpose shelter building, new access points for fishing, new walking trails and potential new bridges. The board held a public hearing on the plan Oct. 26. The Edina City Council approved the plan on a 4-0 vote last month after significant discussion within the community.
Supporters argued the plan would create a more sustainable environment and allow more people to enjoy the creek. Opponents argued that, while there are some good aspects to the plan, removing the dam wouldn’t be worth the money or disruption to a resource people enjoy in its current form. “To me it’s a very special pocket of Edina that’s unique,” resident Martin Freeman said at a public hearing on Sept. 6. “You have to realize that bringing bulldozers, re-engineering that, putting walkways in will change that forever.” The project originated with a 2014 SEE ARDEN PARK / PAGE A15
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Streetscape
By Ethan Fawley
Dockless bike share may be on the docket for 2018
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ccess to a working bicycle is one of the biggest barriers to people biking. It might become easier to access bicycles in 2018 as Nice Ride Minnesota — non-profit operator of the green bike-share bikes since 2010 — is considering private proposals for thousands of new bikeshare bikes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Their vision is many more bikes available at much lower costs — likely $1 a trip, or even less with discounted rates. This shift has the potential to change the local landscape for biking and support hundreds of thousands more bike rides.
Dockless bike share Fundamental to the shift will be a move away from the current docked Nice Ride model where you get a bike at a station and have to return it at a station. Instead, the proposals are for “dockless” bike share, where customers locate, access and lock bikes using a smartphone app. Without stations, bike share is less expensive and can potentially serve areas where stations are not viable today. Dockless bike share has taken off in China in recent years — with the amazing impact leading some to call it one of China’s “four great new inventions” — and is expanding around the world. In the United States, dockless bike
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memorandum of understanding between Edina and the watershed district. Under that memorandum, the city and watershed district examined options for removal of the dam, in conjunction with the 54th Street bridge replacement project. Edina authorized a memorandum of agreement with the watershed district in August 2016 that established a framework for jointly developing a concept plan for Arden Park. The process to develop the plan included three community meetings, two Parks and Recreation Committee meetings, a City Council work session and two ad-hoc meetings. The City Council was supposed to hear the plan in June, but that was delayed until August. The council in August decided to hold a public hearing before voting. According to the Watershed District, the dam has altered the ecological function and value of the creek system by removing a mile of habitat for spawning and forage for fish below. It also leads to warmer water temperatures, which increases algal growth and the accumulation of decaying vegetation, and it creates an unhealthy environment for fish and the in-stream insects they eat.
On balance to me, it’s more important to do this than not to do it. … If we improve the creek, the benefits to our town will be priceless. — Jim Hovland, mayor of Edina
share has opened in Seattle, Dallas and Washington, D.C. this year, with many more systems expected soon. The rapid expansion is being fueled by private companies that have attracted more than $1 billion in venture capital. Seattle, Washington, D.C and several other U.S. cities have created regulations for dockless bike share and then opened it up for competing companies. Seattle has at least three competing bike share companies.
Nice Ride’s proactive approach Rather than waiting for dockless bike share companies to come knocking on the door in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Nice Ride has taken a very proactive approach. They determined they can better serve their customers and advance their mission by transitioning to a dockless system funded by a private company. “It is great to have the possibility of 10,000 more bikes and being able to support many more people biking,” said Nice Ride Executive Director Bill Dossett. In August, Nice Ride issued a request for proposals for the “transition of the Twin Cities bike share system.” From that RFP, they have narrowed down to two finalists: Lime Bike and Motivate. In either case, Nice Ride would be working with that company and, ideally, the City of
“The dam essentially creates a lake system, if you will, behind it,” planner and project manager Renae Clark said. “Removing the dam restores the function of a creek system.” The proposed project would improve the stream’s habitat and health, treat more stormwater and decrease phosphorus runoff, according to the watershed district. The concept design indicates about 90 trees would be removed and re-used during construction, though watershed district staff members aren’t sure on the exact number. Community benefits would include the new multipurpose building, multiple access points, buckthorn and invasive species management and new bridges, trails and sidewalks, according to the watershed district. The project would also result in the park being drier and having more usable green space. Before voting, Edina City Council members talked about how the proposed project aligns with the city’s goal to be a good environmental steward. The council members said they recognized the disruption the project would cause but that the ecological and recreational benefits would outweigh that. “On balance to me, it’s more important to do this than not to do it,” Mayor Jim Hovland said. “… If we improve the creek, the benefits to our town will be priceless.” He and others said they want the residents to be involved on key issues going forward. The project is projected to cost just over $4 million. The draft-funding plan allocates approximately 40 percent of the costs to the city, 40 percent to the watershed district and targets 20 percent in outside funding grants. Visit minnehahacreek.org/project/ardenpark-restoration to learn more.
Minneapolis, City of St. Paul, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to transition bike share to dockless over the next couple years. Nice Ride plans to retain their station system and bikes in 2018, so renewing your membership is still a great idea. To that, they would transition in thousands of new dockless bikes from their new partner.
Hear from the finalists In partnership with Nice Ride, Our Streets Minneapolis and the St. Paul Bicycle Coalition are co-hosting a public opportunity for people to hear from the two bike share finalists on their visions for bike share on Monday, Nov. 6 from 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. at Macalester College Campus Center, 3 Snelling Ave. S., St. Paul. Both LimeBike and Motivate will present on their proposals at the event. People can offer feedback at the meeting or by sending an email to proposals@niceridemn.org before 5 p.m. on Nov. 7. For more information, go to niceridemn.org.
Questions remain There is a lot of local excitement about the future of dockless bike share, but there are also questions.
Nice Ride’s Dossett recognizes that “our big ask is that the cities, University of Minnesota and Park Board work together with us” for shared vision of future of bike share. Each entity has to determine whether they want to work with a single vendor or how they want to regulate bike share. There are questions about where bikes will be available and whom they will benefit; where bikes can park and how they are dealt with if they are parked poorly; maintenance; and long-term sustainability. Nice Ride is making the case that all these questions can be best answered by working together. Regardless of the final choices, bike share in the Twin Cities will likely be changing soon. There are a number of private bike share companies looking at the Twin Cities, and most observers think that dockless bike share will be here, one way or another, starting in 2018. It’s exciting to think how that will continue to support growth in biking locally. Our Streets Minneapolis and Nice Ride Minnesota hosted a happy hour on the future of bike share in September. You can learn even more about that at ourstreetsmpls.org/dockless_ bikeshare_coming_to_minneapolis_in_2018. Ethan Fawley is executive director of Our Streets Minneapolis.
A rendering of a proposed redesign of Arden Park in Edina. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and the City of Edina are proposing a joint project to redesign the park, re-meander a portion of Minnehaha Creek and remove a dam at 54th Street. Rendering courtesy Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
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months poring over long-range plans. “Everything I’ve ever wanted for my neighborhood is already laid out,” Luzier said, referencing the LynLake Small Area Plan and long-term guidelines for the Midtown Greenway, pedestrian overlay district and transit corridor. “It was like our work was already done.” She said ideas in long-range plans include a 29th Street promenade through the site, small storefronts, plaza space overlooking the Greenway and structures that transition in height down to residential areas. Affordable retail space is another idea under consideration, Luzier said, perhaps owned by the city or a nonprofit. She said consumers are increasingly drawn to small stores, and small startups need landlords invested in their success. When business nodes boom, the very elements that make them special can get pushed out, she said. “We want to preserve and protect the things that make LynLake special,” she said. Today, it’s too easy for a landlord to sit on empty retail space and rely on upper-story residences for cash flow, she said. “I get that, but the sacrifice is our streets,” she said. “Your property value goes up if you’ve got a vibrant storefront.” On the Garfield lot, the group envisions retail lining Garfield Avenue, with pop-up retail along a plaza that cuts east to west mid-block near the Jungle Theater. Luzier said business owners want the Garfield lot to continue providing parking for the neighborhood, although the right amount of parking is still an open question. “We are in a place where parking is a moving target,” she said. “There is a middle ground, and that’s what we’re trying to come up with.” Gregory Scott, owner of buildings home to Herkimer and LynLake Brewery, said parking is crucial. The Jungle Theater couldn’t survive without the Garfield lot, he said, and the neighborhood is in “constant need of more parking.”
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Aside from providing parking, Luzier said, business owners would like to grow the daytime population. While LynLake is busy on nights and weekends, she said, restaurants are quiet during the day.
The background Luzier said her own questions about the block turned into a “five-year rabbit hole” of research. She explained that 25 years ago, a group of LynLake business and property owners determined that LynLake needed a district parking solution. Working with the City of Minneapolis, the group encouraged the city to purchase lots to assemble the present-day surface lot west of Garfield and south of the Midtown Greenway, as well as 50 spaces at 2935 Aldrich Ave. S. The city issued a bond to pay for the parking development, repaid in assessments by businesses located within 300 feet of the lots. The payments will be complete in 2018, Luzier said. New businesses that couldn’t fully meet parking requirements paid fees that formed a trust fund to cover future parking lot improvements. The thought was that someday, the city would grow enough to require structured parking there, Luzier said. Luzier has re-formed the parking committee with six business owners, a representative from Minneapolis Public Works and representatives from CARAG, Lyndale, the Wedge and Whittier neighborhoods. The group consulted with Track 29 developer Ross Fefercorn before his passing early this year, and it is now consulting with Michael Lander of the Lander Group. Lander said even if he isn’t awarded development rights to the site, he wants to help the group land a parking consultant and explore ways to improve the public realm. “Too often we forget the green, we prioritize the automobile,” he said, adding that a development’s most important spaces stand on the ground floor. The site’s current zoning is C3A, a “community activity center” district that allows four story or 56-foot buildings as of right and taller development with a conditional use permit. It’s also part of the city’s pedestrian-oriented overlay district, which emphasizes density, hidden vehicles and a focus on the pedestrian experience. The LynLake group’s next steps involve seeking city approval to use the trust fund to pay for a parking study. The group also plans to determine a financing and ownership structure for the development and to continue seeking neighborhood input. Luzier said her goal is to empower neighborhoods to be strong stakeholders in the project. “People feel like development is happening to them rather than with them or for them,” Luzier said. “Hopefully they will feel a sense of ownership of the project itself.”
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else is secondary.” That’s a lesson she learned from Hurricane Katrina. Brewer was born and raised in New Orleans. “I lived there my whole life, and hurricanes were never a big deal,” she said. Before the hurricane hit, her sister — usually the first to raise an alarm — still hadn’t called, so Brewer wasn’t very worried. Expecting a typical hurricane scenario, she didn’t pack much and checked into a hotel in Chattanooga. Her mom packed an oil painting of her great-grandmother that Brewer said the Smithsonian once expressed interest in purchasing. At the hotel, they watched the television in disbelief. They saw water reach the eaves of a two-story house, and a boat floating down Pontchartrain Boulevard. Newscasts featured a flooded corner of her mother’s street and a restaurant located down the street from Brewer’s apartment. “Reality set in that we can’t go home,” she said. She and other family members, plus three dogs and a cat, stayed with family in Virginia, then moved into a hotel, then rented a house together. They worried about Brewer’s brother-in-law, a police officer who stayed behind and became exhausted by the
The place all of us lived our entire lives was unrecognizable. … In the blink of an eye, my entire childhood was gone. My first 35 years of stuff was gone. — Gerlaine Brewer
New Orleans native Gerlaine Brewer survived a Whittier apartment fire. Photo by Michelle Bruch
work. At one point he was rescued from a flooded location by helicopter. Brewer worked in the marketing department at a hospital, and she returned to New Orleans in late September, when the hospital required that all staff return to work. Showing ID to prove residency, they returned to New Orleans to find her mother’s Lakeview neighborhood had been hard hit. Houses had shifted, and a car that was parked in the driveway now leaned sideways against the gate. Mud covered the floor of the 1940s bungalow, everything in the kitchen was in the wrong place and perfectly-made beds were covered in patches of mold. “The place all of us lived our entire lives was unrecognizable,” Brewer said. “… In the blink of an eye, my entire childhood was gone. My first 35 years of stuff was gone.” One of her sister’s houses was largely fine,
but in her other sister’s neighborhood chairs were hanging from chandeliers. “The boat had been stolen. Hopefully it saved a life,” she said. En route to her own home in Mid-City, she passed a downed helicopter with broken propellers. The water line reached six feet inside her building. “One revelation I take from Katrina: When you walk into a house that hasn’t had power for a long time, don’t ever open the refrigerator,” she said. Brewer said rent spiked in New Orleans following the hurricane. Now in Minneapolis, she said she felt lucky to find a new apartment close to the burned building. Housing is the most difficult issue for the apartment residents, she said, as rent at the building was cheap and Whittier housing is expensive. The building was condemned in October, according to property records.
Brewer’s partner is an album collector who lost 1,000 catalogued records in the fire. Brewer once collected things like bobbleheads and blue glass, but not anymore. “It’s only stuff,” she said. Staff at the Fox Den Salon started a fundraising campaign for Brewer at youcaring. com, which has raised more than $5,000. Upon learning that Brewer lost her bike, her primary mode of transportation, the Grease Rag Ride & Wrench group offered bikes, gear and clothing. “I’ve never been so overwhelmed in my entire life,” Brewer said. “… I’m not one to ask for help.” Brewer said her experience has been challenging and surreal, but it’s gratifying to see so many people want to help. “I wish people felt like that every day, and not just during those horrible events,” she said.
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Historic characteristics of the former Dayton’s building would be preserved under a new proposal, from the fourthfloor women’s restroom to the circular windows on the corner. Image by Gensler
Dayton’s building could once again be downtown’s cultural center Developers are planning a $190 million redo of the department store’s historic home By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
Developers are proposing to breathe new life into the former Dayton’s building as a future retail and entertainment hub of downtown Minneapolis. The building’s new owner, New York-based developer 601w Cos., recently announced its plan to invest $250 million to buy and renovate the three-building complex on Nicollet Mall. The project would turn the approximately 1.2 million square feet of high-profile real estate into retail on the lowers levels, a festival food hall in the basement and offices with large floorplates by 2019. “It’s a rare find in our business to discover such an historically significant building in a such a prized location. We fully understand its historical and cultural significance to the City of Minneapolis and the generations of Minnesotans who have experienced great memories here,” said Brian Whiting, President of The Telos Group, a partner on the project. “We are honored to be charged with the revival of the Dayton’s building, which we believe will once again take its place as the cultural and entertainment heart of Downtown for generations to come.” Before it was Macy’s and before it was Marshall Field’s, the building at 7th & Nicollet was Dayton’s, and it has stayed that way in the memories of many Minnesotans across the original building’s 115-year-history. The redo, known as “The Dayton’s Project,” will bring back the store’s name to the building. The Bachelor Farmer and Askov Finlayson owner Eric Dayton, whose great-great-grandfather founded the department store, described it on Twitter as an “important and exciting project.” “I’m proud to have our name attached,” he said. Once complete in a couple years, the project will be one of the largest adaptive reuse devel-
opments in the country. Two sights in the building that may stick out in many a Minnesotan’s memory, the Art Deco-style women’s bathroom on the fourth floor and the original JB Hudson space on the first floor, will be preserved in the redevelopment. About 80 construction workers led by general contractor Gardner Builders are already on the site daily to do the preliminary demolition and abatement work. Whiting called this time a “discovery phase” to uncover much of the aging infrastructure building. The development team estimates the project will create about 400 construction jobs. The basement and first two floors will be home to dozens of fashion retailers, restaurants and entertainment companies across more than 200,000 square feet. The Dayton’s building is no stranger to restaurants, having been home to the Oak Grill, the 12th-floor Skyroom and Signature Kitchen on the lower level. Under the new proposal, the building will be home to a “dynamic” festival food hall on the lower level that the developers say will be home to artisanal food purveyors. Unlike many buildings downtown that are closed on weekends, Whiting said they envision the skyway-accessible building being a venue open all week, including evenings. Food halls are a trend nationwide and are growing locally. Minneapolis has had the Midtown Global Market — similarly built in a former department store space — for more than a decade. St. Paul will get its own downtown food hall with the Keg & Case Market next year in the former Schmidt brewery. On the upper levels, the Dayton’s complex
Former Macy’s department store space would be repurposed for retailers and restaurants. Photo by Eric Best
will have 750,000 square feet of first-class office space with “a style and amenities not seen prior in Minneapolis,” Whiting said. The office floors, once home to the original Dayton’s offices, have large floorplates not found in other buildings in the city. Tenants may occupy as much as 90,000 square feet on some floors. Office workers will have access to a rooftop outdoor terrace with an indoor winter lounge, a quiet “library” space and a 10,000-square-foot full-service fitness center. Erin Fitzgerald Wendorf, a principal at
Transwestern, a firm managing the project, said these floors will be a “statement space” in attracting innovative tenants. While none have publically signed on to the project yet, Whiting said discussions with prospective clients are “very active” and the interest has been “extreme.” Construction is expected to begin next March. The office portion of the project is expected to open at the beginning of 2019, although early tenancy may start late next year. The commercial floors could open as soon as the second or third quarter of 2019. Majority owner 601w Cos. purchased the building for $59 million earlier this year. The development team includes Nicollet Mall-based United Properties and Telos Group of Chicago. Architecture firm Gensler Minneapolis designed the project. “This project reflects the historical significance of the building while adding a respectful but progressive design to create dynamic and relevant environments for today’s workforce and the downtown Minneapolis community,” said Steve Bieringer, a senior design manager at Gensler. Now vacant, the building may eventually be home to an estimated 4,000 employees. Steve Cramer, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council and Downtown Improvement District, said the Dayton’s project and the redesigned Nicollet Mall may lead to more interest in the heart of the city. “To me, this one-two punch is going to tremendous for our downtown and send a signal that we’re open for other retail and other entertainment business along Nicollet,” he said.
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Nicollet Mall will host 10-day Super Bowl festival Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis are putting together a Minnesota-centric lineup
It wouldn’t be a Minnesota Super Bowl without Prince. A tribute to the late music star, free shows and ice sculptures are among the sights promised at Super Bowl LIVE, a 10-day festival that will bring locals and visitors to the south end of Nicollet Mall before the big game next February. The Super Bowl Host Committee marked 100 days until the game with an announcement that Minneapolis songwriting icons Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will be behind a Minnesota-focused lineup of programming and concerts, which will include a tribute to the Purple One. The lineup is just one part of the pregame festival, which committee officials promise will have food and outdoor fun in order to showcase the region and the Twin Cities as the “Bold North.” Maureen Bausch, CEO of the host committee, said the festival is an “opportunity to showcase the best of Minnesota” — including the weather. “From our ‘Minnesota Sound’ and outdoor winter sports to our creative cuisine and nightlife, Nicollet Mall will be a shining example of our Bold North lifestyle. With a northern city hosting the Super Bowl, we are leaning into what makes Minnesota unique. We created Super Bowl LIVE to intentionally invite our visitors to spend time outdoors and enjoy an unforgettable and quintessential Minnesota experience,” she said in a statement. The festival will take over six blocks of Nicollet Mall from 6th to 12th streets with each block offering its own unique events and programming. The festivities
The Verizon Up Stage at Ice Mountain will host daily concerts and events during Super Bowl LIVE. Submitted image
will connect to the Super Bowl Experience Driven by Genesis, the NFL’s interactive theme park inside the Minneapolis Convention Center. The main attraction will be the “Verizon Up Stage at Ice Mountain” on the corner of 8th & Nicollet. That’s where free daily concerts, including a Prince tribute on the first day, will take place each day, as orga-
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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
City Council approves community solar garden subscription agreements The Minneapolis City Council agreed Oct. 20 to subscribe to two proposed community solar gardens. The council approved 25-year agreements with two companies, Renewable Energy Partners and ReneSola, for their proposed gardens. The agreements are for up to 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, including 310,000 kWh from Renewable Energy Partners and 680,000 kWh from ReneSola. One million kilowatt-hours is enough electricity for approximately 109 Minnesota residential customers for one year, based on 2015 U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. Community solar gardens allow utility customers in Minnesota to support solar energy and save money on their electricity bills. Customers typically “subscribe” to a portion of a solar garden and pay the garden’s operator for electricity their portion of the garden generates. Utilities hook up the gardens to their electric grids and credit the customers for the electricity generated by their portions of the gardens. “There’s a spread between the credit and what you have to pay the garden operator,” said Brian Millberg, energy manager for the City of Minneapolis. “That’s how the subscribers make money.”
There’s a spread between the credit and what you have to pay the garden operator. That’s how the subscribers make money. — Brian Millberg, energy manager for the City of Minneapolis
Millberg estimated that customers could save 5–10 percent on their electricity bills by subscribing to a garden. Customers can only subscribe to gardens in their home county or an adjacent county, per state law. Before the latest agreements, Minneapolis had already signed subscriber agreements for 24 separate gardens for an annual total of 7.5 million kWh. The city estimates it will save $1 million–$4.7 million over the 25-year terms of the agreements. The latest agreements are different, however, because they require the garden operators to earmark at least 20 percent of the gardens’ electricity for low-income households in Minneapolis. Those households haven’t typically been able to subscribe to community solar gardens because garden operators typically require subscribers to have high credit scores, Millberg said. “A lot of the companies that are financing these solar arrays are traditional financing organizations,” said Dan Thiede, communications manager for Clean Energy Resource Teams, a public-private partnership. “They see participant credit score as a way to be able to avoid risk in their investments.” Millberg said the city is trying to prove to the marketplace that low-income people can be trusted when it comes to these subscriptions. “We’re willing to take that risk, because we think the market is unfairly keeping these people out of saving some money,” he said. The city required the developers to say how they plan to attract low-income subscribers as part of their requests for proposal. As part of the agreements, the city said it would pick up any lapsed subscriptions, provided its total stays under 40 percent of the garden’s generation. State law limits subscribers to no more than 40 percent of a garden’s generation. Renewable Energy Partners, a North Minneapolis-based firm, is in talks with
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Minneapolis Public Schools about installing its garden on the North High School roof, according to founder and President Jamez Staples. The company would offer MPS a 10-percent subscription at no cost and would offer the district another 10-percent subscription at a cost, Staples wrote in a memo. It plans on offering the remaining 60–70 percent of subscriptions to low- and moderate-income customers of Xcel Energy, focusing first on residents of North Minneapolis, he wrote. The firm’s proposed financing model is different than the model for a typical community solar garden. Renewable Energy Partners doesn’t plan on charging subscribers for their subscriptions, Staples wrote, but plans on having subscribers pay 75–80 percent of their bill credits back to the firm. The St. Paul Port Authority has offered financing for the project from a special fund that supports energy projects benefitting lowincome communities and business development for small women- and minority-owned businesses, according to Staples. Renewable Energy Partners will solicit subscribers in conjunction with Community Action of Hennepin County and Pillsbury United Communities, he wrote. He wrote that the company could have the project operational late in 2018, assuming all goes well with MPS and/or other host sites. A representative of ReneSola didn’t respond to a request for information about its project. Millberg said subscribers of both projects likely wouldn’t receive bill credits until 2019. The Minnesota Legislature created the community solar garden program in 2013 as part of a broader bill to expand the use of solar energy. The program has contributed to the rapid growth of solar capacity in the state. Minnesota’s solar capacity was just one
megawatt as recently as 2009, according to the state Department of Commerce. The state had an estimated capacity of 579 MW as of Oct. 1, according to department Director of Communications Ross Corson. The department is forecasting that Minnesota may add a total of 550 MW of new solar capacity in 2017, Corson said. Community solar gardens appear to be a significant portion of that capacity. As of Sept. 31, Xcel Energy had 42 community solar gardens that were interconnected to its grid, with those gardens having a capacity of 140 MW, according to Lee Gabler, senior director of customer solutions for Xcel Energy. He said another 475 MW worth of projects are in the design or construction phase. Xcel is hoping to have a capacity of 250 MW through community solar gardens by the end of the year, Gabler said. Minnesota had a capacity of 143.4 MW of community at 69 sites available from 30 utilities as of the end of the third quarter, Corson said. Community solar gardens aren’t cheap for Xcel, Gabler said. Solar energy from the gardens costs the company 12.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, almost twice as expensive as utility-scale electricity. Xcel passes those additional costs onto all of its consumers by charging them more for fuel. For every 100 MW of community solar that comes online, it costs customers an additional $17 million, Gabler said. The 2013 legislation also stipulated that 1.5 percent of public utilities’ retail electricity sales must come from solar energy by 2020. It also increased the total percentage of public utilities’ retail-electricity sales that must come renewable sources by 2020 and 2025. Xcel will probably exceed the 1.5-percent solar requirement by the end of 2017, Gabler said. He said he believes the company has already surpassed its renewable standard, which are 25 percent for 2020 and 30 percent for 2025.
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By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
Park Board to begin construction to restore Hall’s Island Five decades after being dredged, the island is making a return to the riverfront
A restored Hall’s Island would provide a habitat for wildlife just north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge. Image by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The island itself won’t be accessible to park visitors until the board completes future phases, which will include two bridges to the island, an observation platform and a third bridge connecting the site to Boom Island Park. Schroeder said park staff are in the initial planning stages on these improvements. In the meantime, the site will serve as a refuge for wildlife. The back channel, with an average depth of 6 feet, will provide a habitat for native mussels. By next spring, the board will begin planting native grasses, shrubs and trees on the site. A sandy habitat beach and rock ledges are expected to draw animals to the island. Stephanie Johnson, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization’s outreach director, said Hall’s Island will improve local ecology in the “heart of the city.” “We look forward to seeing an island teeming with birds, fish, turtles, mussels and other wildlife,” she said in a statement. Superintendent Jayne Miller said funding for the project is coming from the board’s
Parks & Trails Legacy Fund and a $1.5-million grant through the MWMO. The project comes within a six-year window of time that the Legislature approved in 2013 for the board to rebuild the island. The Park Board will look for bonding money from state lawmakers to further improve the park. TLS Landscape Architecture and Barr Engineering are the board’s contractors on the project. The board expects the first phase of construction to last about eight months. The Park Board had previously looked to find a development partner for a corner of the Scherer site that it has set aside for private development. Revenue generated from leasing the property is expected to go toward operations for the rest of the site. A potential deal with industrial abrasive manufacturer Graco — the company that lies just north of the Scherer site — failed to move forward in 2015. Schroeder said they aren’t actively working to find another partner at the moment.
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The Park Board’s next major river-related project isn’t on the Mississippi River. It’s in the river. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will begin construction next month on the restoration of Hall’s Island, a landmass upriver of Nicollet Island that was dredged half a century ago, filling in the channel that once separated it from the Northeast Minneapolis riverfront. The board’s vision is to reopen the channel, giving eagles, mussels and other wildlife a natural habitat and to give Northeast residents a park where they can enjoy the river. “Our area has always dreamed of access to the water, to nature and to new trails — amenities that other parts of the city take for granted,” said state Rep. Diane Loeffler, DFL-Minneapolis, at an event at the project site Tuesday. “This has been a dream decades in the making.” The restoration comes after years of planning since 2010 when the Park Board purchased the 11-acre Scherer site, a former lumberyard just upriver from the Plymouth Avenue Bridge. In recent years the large lawn has served as a trail connection and even a venue for concerts and festivals in the park. The history of Hall’s Island is unclear, but it’s visible on the earliest known survey of the river from around the end of the 19th century. The City of Minneapolis operated a bathhouse for swimmers on the site a century ago. In 1963 the island was sold for $95,000 to the Scherer Bros. Lumber Co., which connected the island to the shore three years later in an effort to expand its operations. The first phase of construction, a $3.5million project, will see the creation of a back channel stretching approximately 120–150 feet wide, a softer shoreline and a gravel beach for paddlers. Michael Schroeder, the board’s assistant superintendent for planning, said tons of soil will be brought in to regrade the shore and build the island. Once rebuilt, the proposed island would stretch from the northern end of the Scherer site to just south of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, roughly mirroring its historic shoreline.
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The effort to rebuild Hall’s Island is a destination project under a larger vision for the city’s upper riverfront called RiverFirst, a joint effort between the Park Board and other groups like the Minneapolis Parks Foundation — its philanthropic partner — to better connect North and Northeast Minneapolis residents to the river. District 1 Commissioner Liz Wielinski, who represents Northeast Minneapolis, said the project will catch the East Side up to other parts of the city. “We want to reclaim the riverfront on this side of the river, north of downtown, for the citizens, just like it is on both sides of the river south of downtown,” she said. The board is making progress on several large-scale riverfront projects, including preliminary work with a development team to transform the city’s 50-acre Upper Harbor Terminal site on the North Side and demolishing the Fuji-Ya Building to make way for Water Works, new park and restaurant destination near the Mill District.
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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
Neighborhoods create platform of shared values ahead of election The Kingfield, Lyndale, Bryant and Central neighborhoods have spent time meeting together, door-knocking to get out the vote and talking to residents about issues of importance to them in the current election. The Kingfield Neighborhood Association reports that although 85 percent of the neighborhood votes in presidential elections, more than half of those voters do not participate in municipal elections. The four neighborhoods recently adopted a “community values statement” to highlight shared values ahead of the election. After weeks of door-knocking, neighbors said they found a huge diversity of concerns, but all of the issues have roots in racial and economic disparities. The neighborhoods border both sides of Interstate 35W, and the freeway “literally and figuratively” created a barrier that contributed to racial inequity, the neighborhoods said.
“It is our hope that all candidates vying for our community’s votes will make concrete commitments to supporting our platform, and work with our communities to close these racial and economic gaps once elected,” reads the statement. The following values are included in the platform: • Acknowledge systemic racial and economic disparities. Those include disparities in areas like lending, policing, education and employment opportunities. • Access to safe, affordable, long-term housing is a basic human right. The neighborhoods support increasing the housing supply, working to halt displacement, increasing pathways to homeownership, helping older adults stay in their homes and increasing the affordable rental stock.
• Everyone should have the freedom to be safe from violence, harassment and crime. “Safety means different things to
different people,” reads the statement. “For some in our community, there is a fear of violence from the police who are sworn to protect us. For others, it means the safety of being in a sanctuary city. For some it is protecting what is ours, our personal property and a sense of safety when walking on the streets or riding our bikes on the road. And still for others, it means safety from gang, drug or sexual violence. We support responsible community driven efforts to increase safety, as well as efforts to increase accountability for those sworn to protect us.”
• Neighborhoods seeing new infrastructure, housing and commercial developments should have a voice in deter-
Community meeting scheduled Nov. 14 for Hosmer Library project
mining the types of collective benefits from the development. Neighbors should
have a strong voice with regard to the impact of development.
• Access to affordable, healthy food and common household necessities make our neighborhoods more inclusive and accessible. New sources of fresh, healthy
food come at a premium price, and the area may lose its only large home goods retailer. • A successful community invests in its people, not just its infrastructure. The neighborhoods co-hosted a mayoral candidate forum focused on racial and economic disparities Oct. 12. A link to Kingfield’s livestream of the forum is embedded in this story at southwestjournal.com.
24th Street may see new bikeway A summer resurfacing project on West 24th Street could include a new bikeway and possibly dedicated bike lanes between Hennepin and 3rd avenues. The city’s stated goals for a bikeway include traffic calming, better bike infrastructure and connectivity, and better comfort and predictability for all road users. City officials said bike lanes may require some changes to parking between Hennepin and Lyndale avenues and between Nicollet and 3rd avenues. A parking study found high use of parking spaces along 24th Street between Hennepin and Lyndale avenues and between Blaisdell and 4th avenues, but also said more parking spaces remain available on side streets and major off-street parking lots. A community meeting to discuss the project is Monday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at Whittier Park, located at 10 E. 25th St. The City Council is expected to vote on the street design later this year. For more information, visit minneapolismn.gov/bicycles/ projects/24thStBikeway.
Hennepin County Library is renovating its Hosmer branch in 2018. Submitted photo
Hennepin County Library staff will hold a community meeting Nov. 14 about an upcoming renovation project at the Hosmer branch. Staff members and project architects will unveil designs of the multimillion-dollar project, scheduled to start in the spring and run through 2018. The project will include creating a more open library space, adding new carpeting and new furniture, expanding the children’s area and adding flexible meeting room spaces, according to project manager Peggy Woodling. The library will be closed during construction. The Hosmer branch opened in 1916 and
was last renovated in 1997, Woodling said. It has an active friend’s group and active children’s and teen librarians who provide strong programming, she said. “I think it’s just a real community library for those people to have a place to go,” Woodling said, noting that the building is on the National Register of Historic Places. “We’re just going to try and keep on with the tradition of the building.” The meeting rooms will have large monitors into which people can plug their laptops, Woodling said. There will be 32 computers on the branch’s main floor, including six for children and 10 for teens. There will also be plenty of outlets, Woodling said.
Architects from the firm Leo A Daly are conscious of keeping with the historical integrity of the building, Woodling said. Library staff members plan on honoring the neighborhood’s history, with more specific plans still in the works. The county has budgeted $4.38 million for the project over 2017 and 2018. The Hennepin County Board approved an initial design for the renovations on Oct. 25. The community meeting will be from 6 p.m.– 8 p.m. at the Hosmer branch, 347 E. 36th St. Visit hclib.org/about/locations/hosmer for more information. — Nate Gotlieb
The City of Minneapolis is evaluating bikeway options for a one-mile stretch of 24th Street between Hennepin and 3rd Avenue South. Photo courtesy of City of Minneapolis
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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
New crime prevention specialist in 5th Precinct Jennifer Neale is no stranger to the Minneapolis Police Department. She worked nearly 10 years as a crime prevention specialist in Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct. She said the position, which serves as a community liaison to the MPD, perfectly combines her interest in law enforcement and her education in teaching. She left the job in 2006 to care for her children, who were toddlers at the time. “Now they’re not little and I wanted to come back to work,” she said. “… It’s good to be back.” Neale spent the past year working as crime prevention specialist for the 3rd Precinct,
which covers South Minneapolis. She attended a recent Safety Committee meeting of the Stevens Square Community Organization, where participants discussed crime patterns with the 5th Precinct Inspector, county probation officer and community attorney. “We’re always saying we work in partnership with the community. This is the best example of a partnership,” Neale said. At the meeting, she provided an overview of recent crimes and tips for preventing cell phone theft, which she said has become common in South and Southwest Minneapolis. (Tips include to keep the phone
locked, keep it stashed and hidden while not in use, stay vigilant while using the phone in public, record the phone’s serial number and mark it with an ultraviolet pen to prove ownership if needed.) “Every opportunity I have now to be proactive, I jump on it,” Neale said. Neale is taking over neighborhoods previously handled by longtime Crime Prevention Specialist Chelsea Adams. Her neighborhoods include Lowry Hill, East Isles, Kenwood, Cedar Isles Dean, West Calhoun, ECCO, CARAG, Whittier and Steven Square. She can be reached at 673-2819 or Jennifer.neale@ minneapolismn.gov.
Jennifer Neale is returning to the 5th Precinct as crime prevention specialist. Photo courtesy Minneapolis Police Department
Precinct continues to track uptick in thefts, burglaries Police said six garage burglaries were reported in a 10-day span in the Kingfield neighborhood last month. Most of the burglaries took place overnight, with use of force to gain entry evident in half of the incidents. Burglaries in the 5th Precinct are up 19 percent year-to-date from 2016, reaching 665 incidents as of Oct. 23. Larceny (theft) is up 31 percent year-to-date from 2016 at 2,667 incidents and thefts from vehicles are up 53
percent at 904 incidents. “Precinct-wide, we’re really being impacted by thefts,” Inspector Kathy Waite said at a recent Stevens Square Community Organization Safety Committee meeting. “A significant number of them could be prevented by simply locking a door — whether it’s an apartment door, door of a garage, a door on a home, a door on a car — and not leaving things in plain view in vehicles.” Suspects have stolen guns from some
vehicles; a vehicle is never a safe place to store a gun, she said. Waite also asked neighbors to be watchful. She said residents typically head straight to their destinations in an alley, and meandering through yards qualifies as suspicious behavior. Waite said auto thefts are up citywide, and she reminded residents not to leave unattended vehicles running. Waite said the change in season may impact crime rates.
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Gadget Guy
By Paul Burnstein
Testing digital voice assistants at home
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ersonal digital voice assistants are becoming quite popular. They allow you to use voice search for queries and control connected items in your home According to a Google study “more than half of teens (13–18) use voice search daily — to them it’s as natural as checking social media or taking selfies. Adults are also getting the hang of it, with 41 percent talking to their phones every day and 56 percent admitting it makes them ‘feel tech savvy.’” Last month, Verizon Wireless sent me a Google Home digital assistant to test out. My goal was to try it against my Amazon Echo (first generation) — or “Alexa,” as it is referred to — and see how each does as a digital assistant. At this point, digital assistants have become quite popular and common; personally, I have three variations of the Echo in my house, one on each level of my two-story home and one in the kitchen. The Google Home and Amazon Echo are really pretty similar. Both can control lights and other smart switches. Both can answer questions and set timers. Both have their own personalities with jokes and silly responses to questions like, “What is your favorite movie?” Both can provide the weather forecast and play music. Both have female voices as well. One area that Google Home stands out for me is in its ability to connect to Google Play Music. As a subscriber, I can then play my playlists and subscription music. Amazon has its own subscription service, but I have not subscribed to it, as Amazon Prime still provides users with a lot of included music. I have a playlist built out of that, but you have to pay more for the full catalogue of Amazon Prime Music, just as you have to for Google Play Music. Google Play Music is not even available on the Echo. Both assistants can tell me my calendar schedule — which is through Google Calendars — but, surprisingly, the Echo
provides more detail and can read other calendars that are linked to mine, like my work calendar. Both the Echo and Home can recognize multiple voices and provide calendar information for multiple users, a feature that I did not try out. The biggest area in which I saw a difference is what Amazon calls “far-field communication,” which is the ability to hear someone across a room. The Echo did much better than the Home hearing me ask for “lights on” and turning off the air conditioner while it was running. The Home, being built on Google’s search engine, does a better job answering questions, while the Echo sometimes just doesn’t understand the question. I tried making calls on both devices. You can use both devices as a speakerphone for your mobile phone calls when initiated through either the Home or Echo. They were pretty similar, but I did get better call quality from the Echo when I was further away; again, probably due to the microphones they use for far-field communication. The two are very similar, and knowing how to use one makes it easy to jump right into using the other. Voice control has become such an easy way in our house, via our Echos, to turn on and off lights, set timers, add to our grocery lists, play music and check weather forecasts. The ability to turn on lights helps my young kids turn on floor lamps that they wouldn’t be able to reach otherwise. Plus, my kids like to have Alexa tell them jokes, read stories and play music. Paul Burnstein is a tech handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@ gadgetguymn.com.
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Clockwise, from top left: Gwen Matthews sings with the Blazers at King Solomon’s Mines, 1968. Photograph by Mike Zerby, Minneapolis Tribune. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. // The historic Grand Central band, featuring (left to right) Linda Anderson, André “Cymone” Anderson, Morris Day, Terry Jackson, Prince, and William “Hollywood” Doughty,
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sounds of his Blazers at the Cozy Bar on Plymouth Avenue, 1968. Photograph by Mike Zerby, Minneapolis Tribune. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. // Dean Constantine stands under the awning for King Solomon’s Mines, which was located at the base of the Foshay Tower off Ninth Street in downtown Minneapolis. Courtesy of the family of Dean Constantine.
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Over 200 labels, including impossible-to-find antique bottles of Buffalo Trace and Pappy Van Winkle. Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s talk about Dalton & Wade, the Warehouse District’s new drinking and dining site, which is almost as hard to find as those rare tipples. (It’s in the new T3 office building entered from, but not on, Washington Avenue. Who knew? Amazon employees do, apparently, for they occupy the office sites above the restaurant, launched by five drinking buddies, three of whom — the Abdo brothers — come from a family of restaurateurs.) The bar, glittering with a lineup of legendary labels from Kentucky and beyond, requires a wide-angle camera to do it justice and a lifetime of visits to sip through its offerings. It’s flat-out gorgeous. Cowboy murals, clippety-clop Muzak and flannel shirts on the (excellent) waitstaff bring the Old West to the New North of the city. There’s food, too — many of them goodol’-boy icons of the Deep South — orches-
trated by Scott Pampuch, remembered as the founding chef of Corner Table. Starters (which can easily make a meal) run from burnt ends with cornbread croutons to bologna sandwiches, from chicken wings to country ham (most $7–$12). We started with that south of the MasonDixon line staple, pimento cheese. Out it came, a mound of the mild, soft cheese blushing with the pink of whipped-in sweet pimentos and piled inches-thick atop Texas (well, I guess that qualifies as South) toast. We also summoned the hush puppies but probably won’t again. Deep-fried nuggets posing little in the way of flavor, assembled atop a lick of sweet corn aioli — pleasant enough but not up to jump-starting the plate. Bypassing the Road House Classics section of the menu (yummy-sounding chicken-fried steak, bison and elk meatloaf, shrimp and grits, $14–$19), we pounced on the triune deity of Southern lunch counters, meat and three ($19). Three meat choices, too, all smoked: brisket, chicken and pork shoulder. Following our server’s counsel, we selected first the salt-and-pepper mesquite-smoked brisket, three or four slices on the dry side
of perfection. OK, but not the jackpot. The apple-smoked roast chicken proved equally overcooked and sere. The list of sides is archetypically Southern, true to classic cafeteria style: a tasty, firmtextured, just-what-you’d-expect potato salad; same for the fine-chopped, vinegar-laced coleslaw. Carrot pudding (a first for me) delivered a creamy, whipped addition, while the green beans, pocked with bits of ham hock and pimento, proved blessedly snappier than their prototype. Fried apples — sweet and firm enough and spared of death by cinnamon, were straight up, while the mac and cheese was, in a word, terrible: pasta shells swimming in what tasted like Cheez Whiz. Order extra sides at $4 if you wish. Sweets ($7) carry on the bourbon theme via ice cream, cobbler and apple pie; or call for other Southern dessert deities like pound cake and banana pudding. Our bourbon apple pie — actually a fritter — didn’t quite make the “save room for” grade, while its accompanying bourbon ice cream tasted more like ice milk sans the touted booze. But what the heck? It’s easy to have a good time here, and a good tipple.
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PANORAMAS IN INK
— BY DYLAN THOMAS — dthomas@southwestjournal.com
Work by the late-blooming Japanese artist Minol Araki at Mia
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he sweeping views depicted in the ink paintings of Minol Araki now on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art reveal an artist with both a panoramic vision and an eye for intimate, expressive detail. While the exhibition includes dozens of works on paper by the Japanese artist — an accomplished industrial designer who considered himself an amateur painter — it’s constructed around five monumental, multipanel ink paintings that astonish in their scale, often wrapping around two or three gallery walls. Stretching up to 70 feet in length, they depict traditional landscapes, mythological dragons, the famous snow monkeys of the Japanese archipelago and a lotus pond — each painting so large that they are best viewed not from a single, far-off vantage point but
up close in a slow stroll from one end to the other. Araki was born in China to Japanese parents in 1928, and grew up in Manchuria during its occupation by the Japanese. The family moved back to Japan after World War II, when Araki was a teen, but not before he began a lifelong study of East Asian painting traditions. His later success as a businessman allowed Araki to travel throughout Asia and North America. The subject of a 1999 retrospective organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, Araki began exhibiting his work only late in life and remains relatively unknown in Japan following his death in 2010 in Tokyo. His practice incorporated both Eastern and Western influences. Works from the late 1970s show Araki absorbing the splashed-ink technique
of Chinese painter Zhang Daqian, who he met in 1973, but the spreading pools of black and sometimes blue or green ink in these paintings also recall Abstract Expressionist works. In “Boundless Peaks,” the first of the monumental paintings viewers encounter when they
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enter the exhibition, those pools of ink teeter between representation — of a mountainous, cloud-draped landscape — and abstraction. The horizontal scroll is dotted with villages, trees and rocky outcroppings, rendered with a level of detail and delicacy that draws the view in and serves to counterbalance Araki’s bleeding ink washes. It was through Zhang that Araki encountered an original scroll painting by 17th century Chinese artist and calligrapher Bada Shanren. In one of the show’s most entertaining detours, Araki works through the influence of both Bada’s work and a loose self-portrait by American artist Ben Shahn, executing a series of portraits and animal paintings that demonstrate bold, spontaneous brushwork and an expert use of negative space.
Mia planning for growth
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art publicly launched a master planning process on Oct. 26 when it announced the hiring of international architectural firm David Chipperfield Architects. The master plan will address a variety of challenges for the century-old museum, which has been enlarged and expanded multiple times over the years. Mia Deputy Director Matthew Welch said much of the focus will be on accommodating rising attendance and the evolving role of the museum as a community space that hosts events of all sizes. “We weren’t designed that way,” Welch said. “We don’t have those kinds of spaces.” Improving the visitor experience, including circulation between galleries on the sprawling campus, is another goal.
“We’re painfully aware that when somebody enters on 3rd Avenue it’s a long way to get to the special exhibitions,” Welch said. He said the museum is “reaching capacity for staff and art storage,” two other important issues the master plan could touch on. The museum may also seek to upgrade its “way outdated” auditorium, Welch said, describing it as more of a lecture hall than a performance space, since it lacks a backstage area. Chipperfield, with offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai, has worked on recent museum projects in St. Louis, Houston, Berlin, London and Mexico City. Mia’s original neoclassical building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, opened in 1915 and was expanded with a 1974 addi-
tion designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. It underwent a $50 million renovation and expansion in the 1990s, and in 2006 Mia opened the new Target Wing designed by Michael Graves. Asked about a future capital campaign to fund any updates to the museum, Welch said that would be addressed after the master plan is developed over a period of nine or 12 months. He described the level of community support for the arts as “astonishing,” noting that construction of Mia’s Target Wing coincided with several other major arts infrastructure projects, including Jean Nouvel’s new Guthrie Theater and the Walker Art Center’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed expansion.
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Mill City Cooks
Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market
Appreciate squash for more than their looks
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eautiful orange, blue and speckled green squash of all shapes and sizes are everywhere this time of year — and they’re not just for decorating! Varieties like butternut, acorn, delicata, spaghetti and kabocha are bountiful at the Mill City Farmers Market, which moves inside the Mill City Museum on select Saturdays November through April. Contrary to most recipes, there is no need to peel winter squash, especially organically grown thin-skinned varieties like delicata, butternut and acorn. Squash skin is completely edible and adds color, texture, nutrients and fiber to your dishes. Before cooking, thoroughly wash the outside of the squash to remove any dirt. To prepare, cut the squash in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds. Keep in mind
squash seeds can be saved and roasted for snacking just like pumpkin seeds. If desired or if cooking a squash with tough skin, peel the squash after it has been partially or completely cooked. Winter squash has a nutty and sweet flavor, and it is commonly used in hearty winter soups, sautéed or roasted like in the squash gratin recipe here, a perfect and elegant Thanksgiving side dish. You can find locally and organically grown winter squash at the Mill City Farmers Market’s Thanksgiving Harvest Markets Nov. 11 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. Find more information and recipes at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck
A variety of squash appear at farmers markets in the autumn. Submitted photo
SQUASH GRATIN WITH CILANTRO PESTO By market chef Jenny Breen • Serves 8 Ingredients (for the Gratin) 1 large or 2 small butternut or other meaty squash (like kabocha or buttercup) peeled and cut into slices 1/2 inch thick and 2 inches wide (cut butternut squash in half lengthwise, then slice; for rounder squash, cut in quarters lengthwise and then slice) 3 carrots, sliced diagonally, long and thin 3 medium gold beets, peeled and sliced 3 medium parsnips or turnips or a combination, peeled and sliced 1 red onion, peeled and sliced 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/2 teaspoon salt
Ingredients (for the Cilantro Pesto) 1/4 cup olive oil 4 cloves garlic, peeled 1 bunch cilantro or a combination of fresh herbs 1/2 cup toasted almonds or pecans 2 teaspoons salt Optional Toppings 1/2 cup feta or blue cheese, crumbled 1/2 cup asiago or other hard cheese, grated chopped pitted olives chopped or sliced tomatoes
Method Combine root vegetables with olive oil, balsamic and salt. Roast at 350 degrees until tender, stirring regularly for about 15–20 minutes. Alternatively, sautee in large skillet with olive oil and salt, covering to allow to cook and caramelize until tender, about 15 minutes. Set aside.
Prepare cilantro pesto by combining all of the pesto ingredients in food processor or blender, adjusting the pesto with more oil or cilantro for desired texture to your taste, and set aside. When root vegetables have cooled, layer in a deep baking dish as follows: root vegetables, pesto, feta, blue or goat cheese. Repeat layers and finish with the asiago. Bake at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes, or covered on medium flame until heated through and cheese is thoroughly melted, about 7 minutes.
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By Alexandra Cortes
Getting ready for the holidays
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ou might say that Sunday, Nov. 12 is a bit of random date to hold a so-called “Holiday Market.” It’s true that it’s somewhat early for Thanksgiving, and the sound of carols may not yet be the constant soundtrack to your daily life errands. But with temperatures dropping, snow already having fallen and the darkness creeping in earlier each evening, couldn’t you just use a reason to be festive? For me, our Neighborhood Roots Holiday Market is just that: a chance to gather and celebrate. The outdoor farmers market season has ended, but we still have one more opportunity to come together before the end of the year. Regardless of the weather outside, it’ll be cozy inside the greenhouse at Bachman’s on Lyndale Avenue, where we’ll be from 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. on the 12th. And the food! I believe that food is key to any good celebration, and you can find the best of it at the Holiday Market — some to enjoy that day and some to tide you through the coming months. Below are some highlights I’m looking forward to at the market.
Cheese It’s a special occasion when all three of our markets’ cheese makers gather under one roof. All offer farmstead cheese, meaning they raise and milk their own animals for their cheese.
and more efficient. Bring along your safely bundled kitchen knives for Minnesota Knife Sharpening to sharpen while you shop.
A Neighborhood Roots Holiday Market inside Bachman’s. Submitted photos
Need something simple for friends and guests to nibble on? Mix and match hard and soft, along with fresh and aged cheeses between vendors for an easy cheese tray. Try combining an herbed or classic goat’s milk chèvre from Singing Hills, a fullflavored, aged Trinity (cow, goat and sheep’s milk) from LoveTree and a First Snow from Cosmic Wheel (their creamy cow’s milk Camembert). Add a baguette from Sun Street, and you could easily stop there. Other possible extras? Spiced nuts from Patti’s Granola and a drizzle of honey (available from a variety of vendors).
Apples and pies
A variety of vendors participate in the autumn and winter markets.
Are you DIY when it comes to holiday desserts? Brand Farms, Havlicek’s Orchard and Mary Dirty Face Farm will all have apples ready for your holiday baking. I’ve recently been on a kick of making applesauce and sweetening it with maple syrup (also available at the market from Walsh Ridge Farm). It adds a complex richness, and I highly recommend trying it when
it comes to sweetening your apple desserts. Need a quicker dessert option? Wicked Tarts will have whole pies and hand pies. Whole fruit pies and pecan pies freeze and re-heat beautifully so you can keep them on hand as you need. Contact Kara ahead of time at wickedtarts.com to place a pre-order and ensure you can snag one.
More goodies Other products not to miss? Just about everything you might need for main dishes, snacks and sides really! Look for winter squash, carrots, beets, potatoes, turnips, radishes and fresh greens (likely microgreens, kale, and arugula); pastured meats, including chicken, pork, beef and lamb; and other goodies, such as fermented veggies, nut bars, drinking shrubs, granola and chocolates, too.
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Gotta drink local as you eat local, right? Able Seedhouse + Brewery will be serving up their beer at the market and working the bar alongside Bryant Lake Bowl. Thanks to their generous donations all sales benefit our Neighborhood Roots organization, so you can have a drink and feel good about the cause you’re supporting, too! Sit and relax while you enjoy breakfast and lunch from Rise Bagel, Chef Shack, Sun Street Breads and Dumpling. Brian Peterson will be playing tunes, including kid singalong favorites, from 9 a.m.–11 a.m., followed Blood Brother from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. with his combo guitar and percussion. A final key ingredient of a celebration? Gratitude. We’re able to gather vendors and eaters together at our markets because of those who support our markets and organization financially. Nicollet Ace Hardware, Lake Harriet Veterinary and the Augustine Team Realtors have been sustaining supporters of ours. They are joined by 3 Bears Landscaping, Casa de Corazón, PACT Apparel, South Lyndale Liquors, the Linden Hills Co-op, Professional Data Analysts, Inc., Bachman’s, the Field Regina Northrop Neighborhood Group and many other small businesses that sprinkle our South Minneapolis neighborhoods. I have learned in my years working for the markets that local supports local, and I ask for you to keep that in mind as you move forward with your shopping and doings this holiday season. Cheers to you, yours and all of your celebrations, and good eating ahead. Alexandra Cortes worked as the assistant market manager and then executive director of Neighborhood Roots from 2011 to 2017. She is infinitely grateful for the food she’s eaten and friends she’s met via this work; it’s made Minneapolis home.
A freshly sharpened knife will make your upcoming food preparation that much easier
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integrate schools. He started in North Minneapolis but then would get bused down south for high school and some of junior high. And I think that totally shaped his approach to music and culture, where he didn’t see it as a black scene and a white scene. He wanted to experience the world as someone who could move between these worlds. Central High School was very diverse, and I think you saw that in the bands that Prince formed. He was very intentional about having white and black players and women in his bands, and I think he picked up a lot of that from being able to wander through the city a little bit as a teenager and see it through a lot of different perspectives.
You make the case that segregation and the struggles black artists went through to play in front of white audiences shaped what would eventually become known as the Minneapolis Sound. It’s funky, it’s based in R&B and jazz and black music, but it’s also influenced by the popular, largely white rock acts that were being played on Twin Cities radio in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.
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ne of the great chroniclers of Prince during the final decade of the musician’s life, journalist Andrea Swensson made it her mission to reveal the man behind the self-cultivated myth of the Purple One. “He liked to have that air of mystery, but at the end of the day he is a man who was born in a specific time and place, and that’s really what I wanted to explore,” said Swensson, who does just that in her new University of Minnesota Press book, “Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound.” Writing for City Pages and later 89.3 The Current, where she hosts “The Local Show,” Swensson was perfectly positioned to document Prince’s return to the Twin Cities from L.A. in 2009. She caught Prince’s attention with a sketch of his band on stage at a no-cameras Dakota show in 2010, and within a year Swensson was invited to meet with him at Paisley Park, his Chanhassen headquarters — the beginning of a friendly back-and-forth that would continue until Prince’s death at age 57 in April 2016. “Got to be Something Here” serves as an extended prologue to Prince’s breakout 1981 performance at Sam’s, the downtown Minneapolis nightclub that became First Avenue. It opens in the year of Prince Rogers Nelson’s birth, 1958, the same year a 45 by the Big M’s became Minnesota’s first R&B record. Through research and interviews with the musicians who lived it, Swensson traces the evolution of a music scene and two Twin Cities that shaped both Prince and the Minneapolis Sound, a fusion of genres and influences that broke through the color line. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
IF YOU GO Andrea Swensson presents “Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound” When: Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Where: Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S. Info: upress.umn.edu/book-division/ books/got-to-be-something-here
Southwest Journal: You asked to meet at Key’s Café in the Foshay Tower. Why is this an important location? Swensson: In the late 1960s, this was an R&B
club called King Solomon’s Mines, and it was very short-lived. It was only about a year and eight months that it was active. Even though it’s a really short period of time it ends up being so pivotal and influential for a whole community, and I really just felt like the story of King Solomon’s Mines was the perfect microcosm of what a lot of African-American musicians had to go through to play. It was the first club downtown to welcome bands with all black musicians, which was unheard of at the time. It grew in popularity, and the scene was very mixed. It was black and white, it was rich and poor. It was people that were very high class — who played for the Vikings and ran big businesses — and then it was people who were maybe more troubled and scraping by in life. And they all came together around the music. Pretty quickly it became branded this trouble spot, even though there weren’t really any crimes being committed in the club. The city had its eyes on this space, and eventually the police raided it and took 10 people to the police station saying that they were underage. When they got to the police station, they call could produce identification, which (meant it) was just kind of a bogus raid, but they were able to use that to suspend the liquor license and put the club under investigation.
I was surprised by your description of how long and how strictly segregated Minneapolis music venues were, and even local radio stations dragged their heels for years before they would play black artists. How aware of that history were you when you started researching this book? Pretty much everything I knew was in the context of Prince. I knew that other radio stations around the country embraced him before he was embraced here. I knew “Funkytown” (the 1980 hit by Minneapolis band Lipps Inc.) had become a national hit before they would play it here. But, for me, the curiosity came in because I know there are still issues now, and they had to come from somewhere. I feel that our music community is still very segregated, and I wanted to know why. How did it get that way? Has it always been this way? It just seems like it’s a lot harder for minority musicians to be taken seriously and to be
spoken of in the same way, the same depth, as other musicians.
You dedicated the book to North Minneapolis and Rondo, and you write extensively about how midcentury freeway construction was so destructive to the AfricanAmerican neighborhoods in those communities. Can you talk about how geography plays a role in this book? Absolutely the construction of (Interstate) 94 not only displaced residents in Rondo but destroyed music clubs, like the Western Lounge. It started slicing up North Minneapolis, which would also get cut by 394. It’s just another example of all these barriers we seem to throw up in front of black people who are just trying to live their lives and thrive. But it also seemed to cut off North Minneapolis from the rest of the city in a way that strengthened the music community, even though it was harming the overall community. People were very close together, and it almost turned into an incubator. It’s really interesting how Prince and Andre Cymone and Morris Day all lived within blocks of each other. It’s not like it’s good that it happened to this neighborhood, but it’s interesting to me that they almost had no choice but to look within the area that they were, because it was hard to get downtown, even though it was close by.
When I asked you about geography, there’s even — and I think it’s still true today — the differences between North and South Minneapolis. Yes, and that is a huge thing I learned about (Prince), that he was a product of busing to
It’s partly a survival technique, that they had to play top-40 songs in order to play for white teenagers. I think there’s some creative choices there, too, especially for Prince and André (Cymone) and Jimmy ( Jam) and Terry (Lewis). They saw that music was starting to come together, like Sly and the Family Stone and all these bands that were integrating these different styles. And then Prince took it a step further and adamantly refused to be categorized as a black artist or an R&B artist because he knew what that did to people’s careers. You get kind of quarantined in a certain section of the music industry. I think that’s how he and Michael Jackson ended up being the first black artists to get played on MTV. They broke down these barriers because he said no, and he said I demand you represent me in this way.
I was taking frequent breaks from ‘Got to Be Something Here’ to Google artists like Maurice McKinnies so I could hear the music you were writing about. What is your advice for readers for how to build a soundtrack for this book? I found YouTube is a great place to find those 45s. I put together a playlist, which I should post publicly. Otherwise, I’ve been directing people to go to the Secret Stash Records compilation (“Twin Cities Funk & Soul,” 2012). I think they did such a really nice job. The “Purple Snow” compilation (released by Numero Group in 2013) is great, but it’s a little bit later. And it’s artists who, some of them had an impact on the scene and some of them are more obscure. The Secret Stash one just gets into that history I’m so interested in: Where did this begin?
Terry Lewis (center) and his band Flyt Tyme, which evolved to include Garry “Jellybean” Johnson on drums and Cynthia Johnson on vocals. Photo by Charles Chamblis; courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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By Dr. Teresa Hershey
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y 12-year-old Labrador just tore her cruciate ligament. Should I have her undergo surgery to repair it at her age?
If you don’t proceed with surgery, you would want to make sure that your pet was comfortable and would keep her on pain medications — likely for the rest of her life. Most arthritis medications prescribed for dogs are $50–$90 a month, depending on the type of medication that is chosen, and often a “cocktail” of medications and joint supplements are given if the patient isn’t experiencing enough pain relief with just one medication. If you end up spending $100 a month on pain medication, you a third of the way to the cost of the surgery after a year of medication.
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n a young dog with a completely torn cruciate ligament, it is an easy decision to have the knee surgically repaired. In a geriatric animal, this decision becomes more complex. It depends not only on the overall health of your dog. From a practical standpoint, when a patient is nearing her life expectancy, financial considerations come into play to a greater degree. Let me start by giving you some information on the anatomy of the canine knee. There are two cruciate ligaments in the knee. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) helps stabilize the knee joint and is the one that most commonly tears in the dog. There are different degrees of tear that can occur. Sometimes there is a partial tear in the ligament. In this situation, the dog experiences pain from the inflammation associated with the torn ligament, but the knee is often still stable. When a full ACL tear occurs, veterinarians can tell because the tibia (“shin” bone) can be displaced forward. This is called a drawer sign. Dogs with a complete ACL tear have a knee joint that is not stable. Every time they step on that leg, the tibia shifts forward. This type of injury requires surgery to stabilize the joint. A dog with a full ACL tear that is not surgically repaired will be lame on the injured leg for a long time, sometimes their whole life. Eventually scarring can occur around and inside the knee to help stabilize the joint, but it take years for that process to happen. I have seen dogs with completely torn ACL ligaments that the owners have elected not to have surgically repaired. The lifestyle of these dogs dramatically changes. They can’t go for long walks or runs anymore unless they are small enough or strong enough to pick up the injured leg when they run or tire out. Eventually, as scarring around the knee occurs, they will start to
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use the leg more, and it becomes more functional over time. In young, healthy animals with a completely torn ACL, the very best thing is to have the leg surgically repaired. The goal of surgery is to stabilize the knee so the dog can go back to doing all of the things they (and you) like to do: running, going for walks, wrestling with other dogs, going on trips to the dog park, etc. The reason that this choice becomes more complex in a geriatric animal is that there are all sorts of confounding factors that can impact your decision:
Overall health If your pet is otherwise very healthy, then you may be more inclined to pursue surgery. If your pet has other disease processes going on, like internal organ disease or autoimmune disease, that will impact the decision about whether or not to proceed with surgery. Your pet may be a higher risk anesthetic candidate, and the life expectancy of your pet may be shorter.
If you don’t repair the knee, the injured leg is not very functional for a long period of time. That means that your dog will shift weight to the other limbs and the neck and back for support when walking. It is important to know that this puts a stress on the rest of the body.
Life expectancy Labradors have a life expectancy of about 12–15 years of age. At 12 years of age, your dog may only live less than a year, or she may live another 3 years. In a large-breed dog, the type of surgery that is typically done to repair a torn ACL is either a technique called a TTA or a TPLO. In both of these techniques, a portion of the tibia is cut and “realigned” to change the angle of the knee and stabilize the abnormal movement that occurs after a complete ACL tear. Dogs that undergo this technique are essentially recovering from a fracture repair. It takes two to three months to recover from this type of surgery, and in older dogs, it sometimes takes longer. This recovery time is a consideration in a geriatric animal.
Cost of the surgery Depending on where the surgery is performed, a TTA or TPLO surgery is $3,500–$5,000. From a practical standpoint, it can sometimes be hard to justify that expense if you think your animal will only live another year or two.
I think it is helpful to look at the two extremes when it comes to the outcome after an ACL injury. From a financial standpoint, one extreme is that you repair the knee and your pet dies from an unrelated illness six months later. In a geriatric animal, this is a possibility. If you lost your dog six months after surgery, would you be upset that you spent $4,000 on surgery? Is this something that would put extreme pressure on your family financial situation? The other extreme is that you could elect to not repair the knee and your pet ends up living another three years and will need to deal with an unstable, uncomfortable knee during that time. Will you be kicking yourself because you didn’t do the surgery? Every patient and family situation is unique. There is not one right answer for the best way to proceed in this situation. Your veterinarian is a good resource for you and can support you in whichever path you choose.
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‘ADIÓS UTOPIA’ Considered the most significant exhibition of Cuban art shown in the U.S. in more than 70 years, “Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950” explores how Cuba’s revolutionary aspirations for social utopia, and subsequent disillusionment, has influenced 65 years of Cuban art. Initiated by collector Ella Fontanals-Cisneros through her foundations and organized by a team of independent Havana-based curators, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the project brings together more than 100 of the most important painting, graphic design, photography, video, installation and performance works by more than 50 Cuban artists and designers. “Adiós Utopia” explores key events in Cuban history, particularly those surrounding Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, and how these events have impacted Cuban artists’ attempts to find harmony in challenging circumstances. The exhibition kicks off with the Walker’s signature After Hours preview party on Friday night, which offers the first look at the show, live Cuban-infused music by Charanga Tropical, Malamanya and DJ Don Cuco, a silk-screen printing workshop, a photobooth, drinks and small bites.
When: Nov. 11, 2017–March 18, 2018. After Hours Preview Party: Friday, Nov. 10 from 9 p.m.–midnight Cost: $9–$14 gallery admission; $15 for party
‘MOBY DICK’ Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” has been called the greatest American novel. In this new stage adaptation of the book, Minneapolis company Theatre Coup d’Etat highlights America’s values of diversity, inclusion and hard work. The play follows a racial- and gender-diverse crew of sailors working during the height of the whaling industry as they hunt the whale that took the leg and destroyed the mind of Captain Ahab. As told through the eyes of the inexperienced seafarer, Ishmael, the production offers a lens into a world of cultural unity, moral and ethical conflict, and what it means to depend on the person next to you in a dangerous world. Judging by a preview of the show — and the award-winning company’s critical acclaim — expect an immersive, highly stylized performance full of striking imagery, strong dramatic performances and impressive sound and stage design.
When: Nov. 3–20 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Fallout Urban Arts Center, 2601 2nd Ave. S. Cost: $18 Info: theatrecoupdetat.com
‘THE REALITY OF REPEATABILITY’ In this two-person show of new work, Andrew Mazorol and Ryan Fontaine put their distinct yet complimentary styles on display at new contemporary art gallery, HAIRandNAILS. “The Reality of Repeatability” marks the sixth time the two artists have shown together and showcases the growth of each respective artist since their time as roommates and bandmates living and working in the now-defunct Minneapolis underground punk venue, Medusa. The newest works by Fontaine, who recently moved back to
Minneapolis to co-found HAIRandNAILS, features a blend of abstract imagery and object representation in complex, two- and three-dimensional structures. Lacking a straightforward narrative, the works leave the viewer with a lingering sense of unease. Mazorol, now based in Brooklyn, returns to his hometown with a series of abstract scenes that feature an eye-popping explosion of colorful, collaged patterns. It’s a must-see show for contemporary art fans.
When: Nov. 3–Dec. 3; opening reception: Friday, Nov. 3 from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Where: HAIRandNAILS Contemporary Art Gallery, 222 1/2 E. 35th St. Cost: Free Info: hairandnailsart.com
Where: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl. Info: walkerart.org
ZENON DANCE COMPANY FALL PERFORMANCE The award-winning Zenon Dance Company celebrates its 35th anniversary with a show highlighting new works created by up-and-coming New York choreographers, as well as classic, beloved pieces spanning the celebrated contemporary dance company’s repertoire. New works include Michelle Boulé, a Bessie-winning, Brooklyn-based dance artist known for her unique movement choreography; Alex Springer and Xan Burley, a collaborative
performance duo from Brooklyn whose work examines movement through mimicry and embodiment; and local choreographer Penelope Freeh, whose work explores and diverges from the ballet tradition. The company will also highlight a few audience and critic favorites, including the popular “Ezekiel’s Wheel,” an emotional journey through modern and jazz dance that explores race relations in America and the civil rights movement.
When: Nov. 10–19 Where: The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $34 Info: thecowlescenter.org
‘CIRQUE DU SOLEIL CRYSTAL’ Ice skating and acrobatic feats come together for “Cirque du Soleil Crystal,” the famed acrobatic troupe’s first-ever show on ice. The new show, which comes to Minneapolis for its sixth production, is the latest from the innovative, 35-year-old circus company as it continues to reinvent itself. “Crystal” follows its protagonist, Crystal, on a story of self-discovery as she explores a surreal world inside her imagination, transforming the Target Center arena into a wonderland on ice. The show promises the unexpected, innovative acrobatics for which Cirque du Soleil is known, as well as state-of-the-art production and world-class ice skating performances that explore the artistic possibilities on ice.
When: Nov. 9–12 Where: Target Center, 600 N. 1st Ave. Cost: $33–$140 Info: targetcenter.com The Mourning Tree by Wynn Fricke. Photo by William Cameron. Dancer: Sarah Steichen and Zenon Dance Company with Mila Vocal Ensemble
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Sound Unseen 2017
Minneapolis’ annual film-and-music festival, Sound Unseen, has been showcasing some of the world’s best music documentaries and concert films for the past 18 years. The one-of-a-kind fest has grown from its humble beginnings with a handful of screenings to include more than 20 rock docs, music-infused feature-length films, short films, parties and other programming, primarily taking place at the newly expanded and renovated Trylon Cinema.
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TRANSMISSION After a brief hiatus, Jake Rudh’s weekly dance party returns to help kick off Sound Unseen at its new home at VFW in Uptown, playing a mix of new wave, indie rock and classic punk. (21+) When: Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10 p.m. Where: James Ballentine VFW, 2916 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: Free
‘THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION’ Penelope Spheeris’s groundbreaking documentary trilogy, which was released between 1981 and 1998, is the opening-night event of this year’s Sound Unseen festival. The series chronicles the L.A. punk scene of the early ’80s, the heavy metal scene of the late ’80s and the lifestyles of gutter-punk teens in the late ‘90s. Screenings will be followed by Q-and-As with Spheeris. When: Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. (with Q&A) and 9:30 p.m. (with director intro); Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. (with Q-and-A) Where: Trylon Cinema Cost: $12 advance, $15 door (each screening)
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‘EVERY EVERYTHING: THE MUSIC, LIFE AND TIMES OF GRANT HART’ Without a doubt, a major highlight at this year’s festival is this 2013 documentary about the famed Hüsker Dü drummer/ singer and St. Paul punk rock pioneer, who passed away this past September from liver cancer. It’s followed by a Q-and-A with producer Jan Radder and special guests. When: Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. Where: Trylon Cinema, 2820 E. 33rd St. Cost: $10 advance, $12 door
‘LIVING ON SOUL’ This documentary-concert film hybrid features musicians from soul label Daptone Records headlining the Apollo Theater in 2014 for a three-night musical revue. Featured performers notably include the dynamic soul singers Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, both of whom passed away earlier this year. When: Sunday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Where: Trylon Cinema Cost: $10 advance, $12 door
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By Linda Koutsky
See our sights Where do you take your out of town guests?
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hat do you look up before visiting a new place? Museums? Restaurants? Shopping destinations? Parks? We all have our interests. Going somewhere new makes us more aware of the environment and creates a connection to place. Everything’s new and different so we pay closer attention. But in our daily routines we often blindly go from point A to B. We pass places that might actually interest us if we were traveling. This column has been my excuse to pull over. November marks the 17th year of my writing for this paper. I started out as the “Lunchtime Tourist” in what was then called Skyway News. I covered art and architecture and cultural curiosities inside of buildings and on the streets and sidewalks of Downtown. I took some time off for a while to work on other projects but came back onto the pages of The Journal and Southwest Journal as the “Weekend Tourist.” My geographic boundaries enlarged, but I still explore the neighborhoods, cultural attractions, businesses and aspects of what makes us who we are in this area. Several times over the course of writing this column I’ve been asked to give a tour. I’ve done walking tours, bike tours, car tours and even a bus tour. I often wonder if I should have been a travel agent or professional tour guide or concierge at a big hotel. I love showing people the city. I’ve given tours to an Art Deco architectural historian, a model railroad enthusiast, a group of museum friends, a college marketing student and my sister’s boss and his wife from California who were interested in Minnesota culture and Bob Dylan and Prince. This summer I had the honor to give a tour to people from all over the world who were
A selection of the author’s personal travel guides. Submitted photo
in town for the 14th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference. We went from downtown St. Paul, up Summit Avenue and over to the fairgrounds — the setting of Fitzgerald’s story “A Night at the Fair.” The six-hour tour (with lunch and a stop at Dairy Queen) covered general Minnesota places such as the Pillsbury A Mill, Stone Arch Bridge, Minnehaha Falls and the Mary Tyler Moore house, as well as many literary sites, including Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark Books.
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Every good tour needs a guide map. Mine have ranged from one-page handouts to pamphlets. For my own vacations, my simple lists from years ago have evolved and enlarged and gotten rather extravagant. Since I believe the vacation actually begins when I start doing the research, I tend to compile a lot of information. My last big trip was accompanied by a 60-page bound booklet filled with points of interest and images — all keyed to maps. People I’ve talked with over the years of writing this column say that they’ve always meant to go to a destination I’ve pointed out. Or they say there are places here that they like, but they only go there when they’re showing guests the city. Personally, I believe in being a tourist in your own city. Since the holiday season is
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upon us, I thought I’d compile a map of places where you readers all take your visitors. Send me your list and I’ll make a map. What is your ultimate Minneapolis experience? Let’s see if we can combine all our ideas into a great showcase of our lives and interests. I’m excited! Send your list to WeekendTourist@ mnpubs.com. For more destinations and adventures, follow Linda Koutsky on Facebook.
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