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Letter to the Editor - Ideas for the Minneapolis Riverfront
From MinnPost:
An overflow crowd at the Walker Art Center last Thursday saw four dazzling proposals for redesigning Minneapolis’ Upper Riverfront. The winning design will be announced on Feb. 10.
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From River Talk:
I had my four minutes of fame yesterday, which means, if Andy Warhol is correct, that I have another 11 minutes coming to me. Maybe so.
The four minutes I had yesterday was a segment on KARE 11 News Saturday, a show that airs early Saturday morning (instead of cartoons, I suppose) that offers weather, news headlines, and brief chats with people who have somehow found a way to come to their attention. In my case, I was there because the University of Minnesota Press is promoting the newly-released book The City, the River, the Bridge, about the collapse of the I-35W bridge in 2007, which I had the pleasure and honor of editing.
From MPR:
A four-and-a-half mile stretch of Mississippi riverfront in north Minneapolis moved a step closer to its new future Friday.
A jury met Friday afternoon to select a winning team in the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition. The winner will create a new vision for the riverfront stretching from the Stone Arch Bridge to the northern boundary of the city.
From The Journal:
How about a Mississippi flanked with robotic searchlights, beams crisscrossing in the night? Or floating barges transformed into community swimming pools and hot tubs? Maybe a new suite of islands, laced with visitor-friendly wetlands and marshes?
These were some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas presented last night at Walker Art Center, to a packed and eager audience, in one of the final stages of the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition. Four design teams — finalists in the international competition, chosen from an initial pool of 55 applicants — had each been given $30,000 and about three months to develop their dream revamps of a 5.5-mile stretch of the Minneapolis riverfront, from the Stone Arch Bridge to the northern limits of the city.
From the Star Tribune:
Competing firms from New York, Beijing, Berkeley and Boston showed ideas for redeveloping along the Mississippi River from the Stone Arch Bridge north to the Minneapolis city limits.
John Derus visits experts and concerned citizens about the history and potential for Hydro Energy in Minneapolis.
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Lock and Dam # 1 on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Time lapse video of the locks in operation.
From HydroWorld:
In downtown Minneapolis, workers are putting the finishing touches on a new 10-MW hydroelectric project that will begin generating power early this year for customers of Xcel Energy.
The site next to the Lower Saint Anthony Falls Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River hasn't been used to generate power since 1987, when a turn-of-the-century powerhouse failed due to sandstone erosion. Efforts to resume hydropower production with conventional technologies were deserted because the economics and technology were deemed unpractical.
Historic home to the original Pillsbury and Washburn (General Mills) flour mills, Saint Anthony Falls was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River. The natural falls were replaced by a concrete overflow apron after it partially collapsed in 1869.
From the Historic Mill District of Minneapolis.
From Mill City Times:
The Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition conducted a survey of Minneapolis residents on their thoughts and hopes for the Minneapolis Riverfront. It was a rather long survey (I participated) covering a wide range of topics. The survey results have been posted, and what struck me while reading the report was the time people spent giving detailed, meaningful answers. There is passion for the future of our river, and I hope the jury for the design competition takes the time to thoroughly review what the respondents had to say. The people behind the scenes of this competition are doing a great job so far.
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Monday, January 31, 2011 at 5:47AM