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“Our commitment is about more than the expansion,” said Children’s Hospital President and CEO Dr. Alan Goldbloom. “It’s about bringing life to Chicago Avenue,” Goldbloom said recently about design plans that will expand and modernize the Minneapolis health care facility in the Phillips Neighborhood with a $200 million-plus investment. MORE »

In the next few weeks, after the deal will be closed for moving into the current Wreck Bros. building near the intersection of 38th and Chicago, the new Chicago Ave. Fire Arts Center will have the distinct honor of being the vanguard for the City of Minneapolis’ redevelopment of that troubled business node. MORE »

Going to a complete stranger’s house to sit in the grass in their front yard to watch a puppet show really is not the kind of thing a relatively shy person like myself usually does. But, as I sat in the summer sun on a lawn in the Seward neighborhood on a recent afternoon, I felt at ease. Adults and children sat together to enjoy a performance by Open Eye Figure Theatre: The Adventures of Little Grandpa, a tale of the city that involved a lost baby alien, a reggae-singing heroine, and a troublemaking cat named Frisky. MORE »

Watch for improvements at the Lake Street/Midtown light rail station in the Corcoran neighborhood starting in July. A volunteer mural project in coordination with Metro Transit and Xcel Energy is planned for Saturday, July 12th to transform the gray and green mechanical boxes on the south side of the station. The mural, designed by Corcoran artist and teacher Melanie Casiday, employs a theme representing the Corcoran neighborhood and its Midtown Farmers’ Market. Paint is provided by Valspar. MORE »