Economic Development

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Seward Cafe to add evening hours, live music, wine and beer

First the Birchwood announced an addition. Now Seward Cafe, another neighborhood institution, is pursuing its own expansion plans.The 38-year-old cafe isn't looking to add onto its spacious corner lot, but instead to revamp the menu, extend its current breakfast and lunch business into dinner, start ... More >>

Occupy Homes MN staging debt protest on one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

SEE ALSO:-- Occupy Homes celebrates new victories with party and conference-- Occupy Homes can't defend Cruz family home from third eviction attempt-- Occupy Homes activist Nick Espinosa helps save his mom's Mpls home from foreclosure-- Occupy Wall Street's Anniversary: The Greatest Photos One year ... More >>

The Birchwood Cafe seeks to rezone and remodel

See Also:Birchwood Cafe's cobbler: 100 Favorite DishesBest Farm to Table Restaurant 2012: Birchwood CafeFor decades, Birchwood Cafe has been a favorite neighborhood cafe, especially for vegans and vegetarians. They were also one of the first to promote the farm-to-table movement and demonstrate thei ... More >>

"Right to work" amendment advances in Senate

​The so-called "right to work" bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee earlier today, but it's unclear whether the measure has enough support to be approved by both the House and Senate.Today's committee vote was 7-6, with Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, joining ... More >>

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Mickey Hart Band

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

Tim Pawlenty loves federal spending (on flood relief)

Suddenly loving federal cash.​Yesterday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was loving federal spending. Not the kind to help all Minnesotans with their health care costs, however. Just the kind to help southern Minnesota recover from floods. The former isn't a priority, he says. He won't even allow state a ... More >>

Minnesota Global: Reducing Minnesota's Foodprint

Station 19 owner: City trying to tax us out

Maiden Minnesota

Should baseball pay for sidewalks?

Andrew S. Natsios: The Crisis in Sudan and the Humanitarian Response

James Orbinski

Save the Savior

Saddled with debt and failed development deals, the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council struggles to survive

Reconstruction in Iraq

NoDak politicos show Bono no love

Twins Ball Park comment thread

How Much for the Washington Avenue Bridge?

The city of Minneapolis, citing budget woes, puts For Sale signs on eight municipal parking ramps

Billion Dollar Dreamer

Jerry Trooien has already spent millions promoting The Bridges, the $1.5 billion St. Paul riverfront development that city government keeps on spurning. No matter: He knows they'll come around someday.

If You Lived Here, You'd be Broke by Now

How a cadre of developers has turned $800-a-month local apartments into $200,000 condos—and turned out a few thousand residents in the process.

Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk: The R.T. Shuffle

The big (and very tall) chill

Hey Joe!

A closer look at Joe Duffy's probe into Minneapolis corruption

Off Beat

Off Beat

Mall Rats

The city says it won't try to bulldoze Hi-Lake for months, if at all. Shopping Center tenants aren't impressed.

Arrested Development

City officials say the head of the Frogtown Action Alliance is dodging them. Two former employees say he sexually harassed them. Leaders in the struggling St. Paul neighborhood fear Shem Shakir's bad karma is contagious.

Off Beat

A Good Bet, and If the Shubert Doesn't Fit...

Haste Laid Waste

Thought the Dania Hall fire was a hot one? Wait till Cedar-Riverside tries to get the city to pay up.

Off Beat

Ground Troops

From its South Minneapolis headquarters, the American Refugee Committee sorts out the logistics of relief

Political Theater

The Guthrie's search for new digs casts the company in a Minneapolis development drama

The Last Block Party

Pig's Eye Parrant bootlegged here 150 years ago. Then came the robber barons, the great wars, the spaghetti junctions, and the exodus to the suburbs. Its glory days gone, St. Paul's Brewery District tries upscaling--and evicting renters who don't belong.

Room at the Bottom

When Eisenhower-era civic leaders drunk on urban renewal laid waste to the Gateway district, they forever altered the topography of this town's hard-luck hotels and shot-and-a-beer saloons.

A Dose of Reality

After years of gathering dust on drugstore shelves, the female condom may finally be on its way to finding acceptance among gay men and Third World women.

Strange Birds

Honey of a Deal

Since its plan to tear down up to 100 Phillips rentals is privately funded, Honeywell won't have to pay tenants' relocation costs. Once the low-income families are out, however, the city of Minneapolis stands ready to kick in tax dollars for the company's

New Kids on the Block

A nonprofit group called Urban Ventures is making moves along the long-depressed Lake Street corridor--and polarizing some of the people who live there in the process.

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Painted Ladies in Distress

Swept Away

The likely demolition of over 700 public housing units in north Minneapolis will scatter people who live there and open up 73 acres of prime real estate at downtown's edge. Is it a matter of civic renewal or a land grab?

NRP Backlash