Hiawatha Avenue
🚦 46th and Hiawatha intersection will be reworked next year
The changes will remove lanes from 46th Street and add a new pedestrian stoplight.
🏭 Vacant Nokomis Mill may soon come down
ADM is seeking approval to demolish the mill it shuttered in 2019, with an early-stage plan to sell the site for apartment redevelopment.
❄️ January Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
The possible return of Open Streets, the future of 3000 Minnehaha, aspiring wordsmiths at Sanford Middle, and more.
🎁 December Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Updates on the Hiawatha-Lake interchange, Cooper playground, gift card deals, NYE events, historical holiday cheer, and more.
💸 4 neighborhood earmarks in the 2025 city budget
The heavily amended budget provides specific funding for a few neighborhood projects in 2025.
🏗️ Financing coming together for major redevelopment of 38th Street grain elevator
A look at the planned redevelopment of the vacant "Checkerboard" grain elevator, which would be among the largest in neighborhood history.
🍁 November Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
The latest at Elsa's House of Sleep, a condemnation scare and playground progress at Cooper School, the evolving fight against streetlight copper theft, Francis's grand opening, trouble at Zaza Cannabis, a cozy winterscape at Audrey Rose Vintage, and much more.
🏗️ What's going on in the old substation at 32nd and Hiawatha?
Spoiler: A little, but not a lot.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December
An update on the major reconstruction, which promises to make the complicated junction more palatable no matter how you traverse it.
🏭 Smith Foundry closes this week. What's up with Acme?
A look at the history and future of the mysterious pink building at the corner of 32nd and Hiawatha.
🛍️ Exploring that strip mall on Hiawatha
A deep dive on the history and businesses of "Parkway Plaza," the easily-forgotten strip mall perched above Hiawatha.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange closing for six months
All four ramps connecting the two roads will be closed and Lake Street will be down to one lane in either direction. But once completed, the intersection should be considerably easier to walk, roll, and drive through.
