Seward Neighborhood News and Events

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Seward is a diverse, vibrant neighborhood located along the Mississippi River in south Minneapolis, close to downtown, the University, and Saint Paul.

Seward's sense of community and mix of residential, commercial, and industrial areas give the neighborhood the feel of an urban village within a large metropolitan area. Seward's urban wilderness, the Mississippi River gorge has biking and hiking trails and is part of the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway.

Shops, restaurants, the Seward food co-op, arts and cultural organizations, and office space are located along Franklin Avenue-Seward's primary commercial corridor. More than 250 artists make up the Seward Community Arts Network (that hosts the annual Seward Arts Festival), and two internationally recognized arts organizations, the Playwrights' Center and the Northern Clay Center make their homes in the neighborhood. Seward is also home to an estimated 1000 new East African immigrants who have chosen to make the neighborhood home.

(Description from livemsp.org)

(Photo courtesy of Ed Kohler, http://www.flickr.com/photos/edkohler/ / CC BY 2.0)

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