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Children’s Hospital expansion brings new life to Chicago Avenue

“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 »

New fire arts center to help rekindle 38th & Chicago

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 »

Puppets in the driveway: Open Eye takes theater to the streets

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 »

Corcoran residents champion improvements at light rail station

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 »

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Phillips Information

Phillips contains the following neighborhoods:
Ventura Village
Midtown Phillips
East Phillips
Phillips West

City Council Members
Ward 6 – Robert Lilligren
Ventura Village and Phillips West

Ward 9 – Gary Schiff
Midtown Phillips and East Phillips

Things People Say

Drinking Mississippi mud

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »