Logan Park Neighborhood News and Events

The Logan Park neighborhood is in the center of Northeast Minneapolis and in the heart of the area's Art District, making it an exciting and creative place to live. The Northrup King Building--home to over 190 tenants including a creative center to over 170 artists and various small business and nonprofit organizations is in the neighborhood-providing residents with year-round opportunities to shop for art, apparel, furniture, and more. Other studio spaces in the neighborhood include theCasket Arts Building,Waterbury Building, Q.arma Building, and the Thorpe Building. 40-percent of the neighborhood is residential with larger Victorian homes built around Logan Park-an active green space that is well-used by residents.

(Description from livemsp.org)

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

 

MN VIDEOS | Art-a-Whirl 1996: What the first year looked like

By Jay Gabler, MN Videos

Art-a-Whirl, now the largest art crawl in the country, had its start in 1996. John Akre was then a volunteer at MTN, and created a 40-minute documentary about the new Northeast Minneapolis event. He's now edited the documentary down to a more concise five minutes to provide this peek into the past.

Northeast Minneapolis taproom tour: Dangerous Man Brewing, Indeed Brewing, and 612 Brew

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Busy scene at 612 Brew on a Friday night

I came late to the Northeast Minneapolis taproom party—so late that I almost didn't get in. The first taproom in northeast, Indeed Brewing, opened back in August, but I didn't get around to touring the new tasting rooms until last Friday. It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things. The first stop on the planned itinerary was Dangerous Man at 1300 2nd Street N.E. The Dangerous Man website advises, "Pick up an Element Pizza, a sandwich from Maeve's, some Anchor Fish and Chips or just bring in your leftover Chinese. We love food, we just don't make it."

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Bringing low-cost internet to the high rise

By Gail Olson, Northeaster

When Nancy Przymus heard that the Logan Park neighborhood was “woefully behind the curve” in its number of residents connected to the Internet, she was surprised.

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Ziach’s Polish Foods bring Poles back to the old neighborhood in Minneapolis

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

It’s a family operation, where son Tomek and his father Zbyszek, keep close. (All photos by Stephanie Fox)

It has been a generation since Northeast Minneapolis was a Polish enclave, but that didn’t stop the Ziach family from opening up an exclusively Polish grocery smack in the middle of what is now the

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TUESDAY PICK | "The Value of Nothing" by Raj Patel: We'll always have brownies

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

As part of its mission to think beyond the boundaries of traditional wherefore-art-thou theater, Skewed Visions hosts a series of events intended to bring community members together in discussion of topics related to theater, art, and (if there's even a difference) life. Among those events are the "book talks" held at the company's Casket Arts space; June 19th's book talk will concern Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, a meditation on art and commerce described by Skewed Visions as "a sort of manifesto for the Occupy movement." Refreshments on hand will include wine and brownies, post-capitalism essentials if there ever were such things.