Midtown

PHOTO ESSAY | Midtown Greenway celebrates cycling in Minneapolis

By Eric Blom, TC Daily Planet
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The Midtown Bike Center reflects the festival it helped organize. (All photos by Eric Blom)

Maybe distant notes of blues music were your first clue. Or perhaps, as you biked down the Midtown Greenway, you saw clusters of tents and people in the distance.

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Grazing along the Greenway: Freewheel Midtown Bike Center Cafe and the Sonora Grill

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

I have been biking a lot lately, and taking the opportunity to explore some of the hidden gastronomic gems along my favorite bike trails.  I bike to work regularly along the Minneapolis Greenway, which runs east to west from Lake Calhoun to the Mississippi River Road, which means I ride past the Midtown Bike Center all the time. But until recently I had never really bothered to explore the offerings at the Midtown Bike Cafe.

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Hiawatha high voltage lines: Xcel proposes, community questions, council considers on Monday

By Jeremy Stratton, TC Daily Planet

This photo illustration from the Xcel open house, looking eastward from Portland Avenue at 29th Street, shows what the street view would like with the 75-foot transmission towers (superimposed). Photo by Jeremy Stratton

During a pair of open houses on January 15 at Plaza Verde on Lake Street, Xcel Energy revealed details about its proposed Hiawatha Project — a plan to build two new substations connected by a pair of MORE »
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