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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Hiawatha Public Works Facility Gets Platinum

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

The City of Minneapolis announced Friday that its Hiawatha Public Works facility has received Platinum LEED green building certification, the highest possible certification.  The $11 million revamped site, which opened in July 2010, consolidaMORE »

A change in the air: The minneAppleseed Passive House

By Alison Morse, TC Daily Planet
On a cool gray morning in early November, I meet Tim Eian, a young Minneapolis building designer, at the corner of Lowry and North Fourth Street in North Minneapolis’s Hawthorne neighborhood. “This is it,” he says, gesturing to a brick eightplex, his blue eyes lit with excitement. Every window in the building is covered with plywood or plastic.MORE »
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• Ice House Plaza opening marks a new era on Eat Street. Things are hopping at Nicollet and 26th.
• Feeding the poor: But is it healthy food? Cynthia Boyd reports.

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