Giant Panda Spotted at Gold Medal Park

From Scared Panda:

Crown Hydrdo Update - Army Corps of Engineers Responds to Crown Hydro Proposal

St. Paul District of the Corps of Engineers raise numerous issues with the new proposal from Crown Hydro.  Review the entire history of the project here...

The Week Ahead in Mill City / March 26 - April 1

Above: The latest update to the Mill City Photo Pool...

Each Monday morning we provide an easy to reference list of events and activities for the week ahead in the Mill City neighborhood.  Submit your events here...

Monday, March 26

Public Skating at the Metrodome

Tuesday, March 27

Talk of the Stacks with Benjamin Busch at Central Library

Wednesday, March 28

St. Anthony Falls Historic District Design Guidelines Public Meeting at MPRB

Christopher Howell Reads with Jim Moore and Deborah Keenan at Open Book

Stone Arch Patio Party at The Depot

Garrison Keillor and the Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library

Thursday, March 29

LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER'S Poetry Reading at Open Book

Friday, March 30

Publication Party and Reading: Joyce Sutphen, with Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock at MCBA

Live Music at Crooked Pint

Artist Talk at The Soap Factory

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Saturday, March 31

Givens Black Books: Community Reading Campaign at Central Library (Registration Required)

Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

'April Fool's Book: Now You See It, Now You Don't!' Family Workshop at MCBA

Sunday, April 1

World Without Genocide 5K Legacy Run/Walk at the Metrodome

This Weekend in Mill City / March 23-25

Above: A recent photo from the Mill City Photo Pool

Events this weekend in and around the Historic Mill District and Minneapolis Riverfront Neighborhoods.  Have an event to share?  Contact us...

Friday, March 23

Live Music at Crooked Pint

NT Live Filmed Presentation of The Comedy of Errors at the Guthrie

Artist Talk at The Soap Factory

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Saturday, March 24

Guthrie's How'd They do That Workshop: Hay Fever

Live Music at Crooked Pint

Let's Eat! Writing and Bookmaking about Food Family Workshop at MCBA

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Teen Job Fair at Central Library

First Pages for Kids: Writing Short Stories at Central Library

Spotlight Series at MacPhail

Winners of 2011 McKnight Artist Fellows Reading at The Loft

Book Sale at Central Library Book Store

Sunday, March 25

Tunnel of Fudge Cake: The Bake-Off and the Bundt Pan at Mill City Museum

35W Bridge Goes Green

From St. Patrick's Day:

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Tonight - MPRB Discussion on Allowing Food Trucks to Operate at Mill Ruins Park & Father Hennepin Park

Time:  5:00pm

Location:  Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Agenda

The regular meetings are rebroadcast on Channel 79 on Saturdays at 1 p.m. and on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5 p.m.

Webcasts of MPRB regular board meetings are posted on the MPRB website two to five business days after each meeting and are available for viewing, along with Webcasts for the recent two months, at http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=900.

This Afternoon - Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission Agenda March 20, 2012

Several items on the agenda related to the Pillsbury "A" Mill redevelopment.

The Week Ahead in Mill City / March 19-25

Above: The latest update to the Mill City Photo Pool...

Each Monday morning we provide an easy to reference list of events and activities for the week ahead in the Mill City neighborhood.  Submit your events here...

Monday, March 19

Chefs for Change at People Serving People

Tuesday, March 20

The Film Society's Neighborhood Night at the Movies at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Meet the New MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Fellows at MCBA

Author Talk: Lori Sturdevant and George S. Pillsbury at Central Library

Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission Public Meeting

Wednesday, March 21

Argentina Wine Dinner at Spill the Wine

Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Meeting

Thursday, March 22

Kingdom Undone Opens at Southern Theater

The Parker Quartet – Illuminations: Mozart, Dutilleux and Schumann at MacPhail

Upper Riverfront program at the Nolte Center

March 22, 2012, Thursday - East Downtown Council Luncheon

Friday, March 23

Live Music at Crooked Pint

NT Live Filmed Presentation of The Comedy of Errors at the Guthrie

Artist Talk at The Soap Factory

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Saturday, March 24

Guthrie's How'd They do That Workshop: Hay Fever

Live Music at Crooked Pint

Let's Eat! Writing and Bookmaking about Food Family Workshop at MCBA

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Teen Job Fair at Central Library

First Pages for Kids: Writing Short Stories at Central Library

Spotlight Series at MacPhail

Winners of 2011 McKnight Artist Fellows Reading at The Loft

Sunday, March 25

Tunnel of Fudge Cake: The Bake-Off and the Bundt Pan at Mill City Museum

Tonight - Eat Well, Support the Minneapolis Parks Foundation at Tilia

Monday, March 19, 5:00-9PM at Tilia

This Weekend in Mill City / March 16-18

Above: A recent photo from the Mill City Photo Pool

Events this weekend in and around the Historic Mill District and Minneapolis Riverfront Neighborhoods.  Have an event to share?  Contact us...

Friday, March 16

Live Music at Crooked Pint

Sing Your Song Opens at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Live Music at Aster Cafe

20th Annual Beat The Odds Celebration at The Depot

Saturday, March 17

Live Music at Crooked Pint

25 Cent Book Sale at Central Library Book Store

Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Farmers Market at Local D'lish

Live Music at Aster Cafe

Mill City Farmers Market at the Arboretum

Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour

Team Ortho Foundation's Get Lucky! 7K Race

Childish Films at Central Library

Sunday, March 18

Japan America Arts Forum at MCBA

Crown Hydro Responds to FERC Notice of Termination

Ice Cream Cones & Gold Medal Park? You Betcha! DMNA Endorses Izzy's Design

Last night the DMNA endorsed the site plan for the Izzy's Ice Cream project across from Gold Medal Park in the Mill District of Minneapolis.

The building has a new design, and in a major change, will include an ice cream parlor where they'll scoop cones and make homemade waffles cones right onsite.  Another significant announcement shared at the meeting was the addition of outdoor seating, including benches and 4 tables.

The project has weathered intense neighborhood opposition, including from Mill City Times, at previous meetings, but encountered almost none at last night's meeting.  The changes announced by Izzy's owner Jeff Sommers last night change the nature of this project significantly.  We think it will be an amenity for the neighborhood, the park, and the visitors from all over the region who use the park daily.

Kudos to Sommers and CPED Project Manager Miles Mercer for listening to the concerns of the community and coming up with a much improved project.

Izzy's Project to Include Scooping Ice Cream Cones? Mill City Times Exclusive

Below is a graphic cut from the Izzy's site plan to be presented tonight at the DMNA meeting (see post below).

If the plan is indeed to sell ice cream cones, like a real ice cream parlor, this facility could be a real amenity for the Mill District neighborhood.  Will they be open retail hours?  That would be icing on the cake.  Attend the DMNA meeting tonight to find out!

Thanks to MNdible on Minnescraper Forums for catching this change.

The area outlined in red shows a scooping station and a waffle making station!

Tonight - Izzy's Site Plan Presentation at Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association Meeting

On the Agenda - Presentation of the Izzy's Ice Cream site plan and other planning applications by owner Jeff Sommers, architect David Salmela and CPED Project Coordinator Miles Mercer.

Izzy's Site Plan

Breaking - Izzy's Site Plan & Photos for New Facility Across from Gold Medal Park - Mill City Times Exclusive

We just received this from the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association:

Outrage on the Minneapolis Riverfront - Vandals Deface Pillsbury "A" Mill [Images]

Sometime overnight between Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, March 11, vandals defaced the red tile elevators at the Pillsbury "A" Mill on the Downtown Minneapolis Riverfront.

If you look at one of the closer up photos you can see that the criminal signed his name "Noah" as part of the J.  However, given that the letters are about 8-10 feet high and stretch across the entire building, I would speculate more than 1 vandal was involved.

We took the before picture at 5:45 PM on Saturday, March 10, 2012.  Upon awakening this morning, something seemed amiss while having coffee on our balcony, prompting me to check our photos from the previous evening.

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From Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM

From Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM

Izzy's Site Plan Presentation at March 13 DMNA Meeting

On the Agenda - Presentation of the site plan and other planning applications by owner Jeff Sommers, architect David Salmela and CPED Project Coordinator Miles Mercer.

Hot & Cold: Warm Evening on the Stone Arch Bridge, Sliding at Gold Medal Park

We were out for a stroll last night, temp in the 50's.  Many others had the same idea:

2 Days ago kids were sliding at Gold Medal Park:

Free Admission - The Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul Neighborhood Night at the Movies

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

6pm reception at Aster cafe

7pm screening of Sing Your Song at St. Anthony Main Theatre

http://www.mspfilmsociety.org/content/sing-your-song

FREE for St. Anthony Main/Minneapolis Riverfront neighbors!

Please RSVP to events@mspfilmsociety.org or call 612.331.7563

"A celebration of singer, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte, "Sing Your Song" does three things only a superior bio-doc can do: Tell a stirring life story, place that life in the context of its times, and portray it with the kind of depth and breadth that makes you wonder why it hasn't been told before." - Variety

Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, Sing Your Song, surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements.

Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist, who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.

Because of his beliefs, Belafonte drew unwarranted invasions by the FBI into both his personal life and career, which led to years of struggle. But an indomitable sense of optimism motivates his path even today as he continues to ask, at 84, "What do we do now?" His example may very well inspire you to action. S2BN Films

Video - Minneapolis Water Works Meeting 2 on Feb 27, 2012

Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle (MS&R), lead architects and HR&A Advisors, economic development consultants, present conceptual designs for the planned Water Works Park on the Downtown Minneapolis Riverfront.  Visit the project tracking page for a complete history of the Water Works project...

Part 1 - Introduction

Part 2 - Analysis & Concepts

Part 3 - Questions & Answers

Update on Monday, March 5, 2012 at 11:20AM by David Tinjum

*Share your comments on the Water Works conceptual development plan, now through March 31, 2012 online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/waterworks2012