West Calhoun Neighborhood News and Events
Photo by Ed Kohler licensed under Creative Commons
The neighborhood includes Lake Calhoun's beautiful northern shoreline, the lively Calhoun Commons shopping district and surrounding businesses, many residential buildings (apartments and condominiums) and 32 homes. The neighborhood is divided by the Midtown Greenway, which offers a biking path that extends to the Mississippi River and connects to paths that go into downtown Minneapolis. Bus service is available on Lake Street into downtown and to the suburbs. There are many mature trees in the neighborhood, especially in the area that is adjacent to the lake.
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The Tin Fish lives! A short, true fish story with a happy ending
Lest one doubt the passion and power of neighbors working together for the common good, read on.MORE »
Catalyst cut staff, will focus on properties in portfolio
Sue Wollan Fan promptly returned a call to her cell phone, and talked frankly about Catalyst Community Partners’ recent eye-opening “pilot” that didn’t work, in North Minneapolis. After about seven years of developing real estate projects using volunteer professionals, Catalyst, of which Wollan Fan is president, had taken on three paid staff and a larger, local office this past June.MORE »
Public or private? Lake Calhoun lot reaches boiling point
What counts as a beautiful sunny day on the shores of Lake Calhoun to most of the rest of us translates to a headache bordering on migraine for parking valet John Browning of the The Ackerberg Group at Lake Calhoun Center. Located at 3033 Excelsior Boulevard on the northwest corner of Lake Calhoun, the lot he manages has become a daily bubbling stew of emotions.MORE »
OPINION | Citizen power or corporate power in City Hall?
The Minneapolis Planning Commission on December 13 approved the proposed CB2 building for Calhoun Square despite objections of CARAG and ECCO neighborhood groups.MORE »
New lot on the lake to emerge this spring
By late January, I'm in spring fantasy mode, training my gaze past the chilled air and ice-ruts toward the widening afternoon light and the steadfast songs of birds who, like me, do not migrate. In this spirit, I look forward to the emergence from the snow of a graceful new parking lot at the south end of Lake Calhoun.MORE »
