Corcoran Neighborhood News and Events

Corcoran

Photo by Ed Kohler licensed under Creative Commons

Corcoran is a diverse and active neighborhood in the heart of South Minneapolis. Predominantly residential, the neighborhood has great connections to downtown via the Hiawatha LRT and Hiawatha Avenue as well as to other parts of South Minneapolis via Lake Street and the Midtown Greenway.

Cynthia Frost

Cynthia Frost is our neighborhood correspondent for Corcoran,  and she wants to hear from you. Tell her about the garage sale, or the big bang on Sunday night - and ask her how to register and get your profile on TC Daily Planet!

Cynthia Frost is a real estate agent, attorney and investor who has purchased and renovated dozens of homes in Minneapolis.   She has a store-front office in Corcoran, and loves her daily ½ block commute from home.
 Cynthia serves on the Board of Directors of the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization and chairs the CNO Housing Committee. To see her complete profile, click here. Email Cynthia at Cynthia [at] MidtownMpls [dot] com.

Lake Street is Corcoran's main commercial area and the Midtown Farmers' Market, a project of the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization (CNO), brings the all-local food and goods of 70+ farmers and vendors to 40,000 people each year. Corcoran Park provides neighborhood residents with a recreation center, wading pool, playground, volley ball court, and playing fields.

Neighborhood murals are becoming new landmarks in the Corcoran and a map of them can be found here. 

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass.

Dental services make a match with People's Center in south Minneapolis

By Yeoryia Christoforides, TC Daily Planet

The People's Center Health Services of Minneapolis now offers dental.

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NRP advocates brave snowdrifts to meet legislators

By Eric Gustafson, Neighborhood Notes

65 people including neighborhood leaders, 9 state lawmakers, and 2 City Council members from Minneapolis turned out to a meeting at Corcoran Park on Sunday, Dec.

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Brown Bag with MinnPost Reporter and Recount Expert Jay Weiner, Wednesday 12/15

By Jeremy Iggers, TC Daily Planet

Please join us at noon on Wednesday, December 15 at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E.

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Silvia Perez Sanchez: Changemaker in Powderhorn

By Mollie Hoben, Minnesota Women’s Press

"I always feel responsible for making things better, to honor culture and bring people together. When I go to a place I like to learn, see how it works."

"Siempre siento la responsibilidad de mejorar las cosas, dar honor a la cultura y juntar a la gente. Cuando voy a un lugar nuevo me gusta aprender y ver como funcionan las cosas."
-Silvia Pérez Sánchez

This past summer, a tired, lifeless lot in Minneapolis' Powderhorn neighborhood blossomed into a beautiful community garden, thanks in large part to Silvia Pérez Sánchez.

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Sisters' Camelot: Feeding Minneapolis, one bus at a time

By Jeanette Fordyce, TC Daily Planet

Photo from Sisters' Camelot website

"People know us on the streets, recognize our bus," said David Senn, a gardener and bus driver for Sisters' Camelot, a working free organic food collective in Minneapolis.  "It is nice to feed people, especially starving people out on the streets.  It is satisfying to feed hungry people such good food." Senn has been with Sisters' Camelot for eight of the organization's 14 years, working 10 to 40 hours per week as needed.

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