Minnehaha Avenue
🍀 March Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Heroic Goods is closing for happy reasons, lean times at Turquoise Vintage, Asian Duck reopens, mysterious lightpole art, and more.
🏗️ “Ultra-efficient” four-story apartments coming to 36th and Minnehaha
Crews are underway deconstructing a 116-year-old triplex at 3561 Minnehaha Ave, making way for what developer Cody Fischer describes as a “carbon-smart, ultra-efficient” 32-unit apartment building with ground-level retail
🎤 Minnehaha Recording Company turns 10
Tony Williamette has embraced the visibility of his corner studio at 45th and Minnehaha.
💸 4 neighborhood earmarks in the 2025 city budget
The heavily amended budget provides specific funding for a few neighborhood projects in 2025.
⚾️ The neighborhood glove shop goes national
Tracing D&J Glove Repair's rise from a Longfellow basement to national notoriety.
🐶 A sneak preview of the Howe's new all-season "pawtio"
The new structure will feature clear walls, a roof that opens and closes, a nine-foot gas fireplace, TVs, expanded seating, and more.
🌮 Visiting downtown’s permanent taco trailer
Jaime Lopez operates the trailer at Lake and Minnehaha seven days a week.
🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals
Paying a visit to the daily free community meal in downtown Longfellow, ahead of its annual fundraiser on Saturday.
🏬 Development plans at former El Nuevo Rodeo move forward
A look at the planned "Viva" project, one of a wave of developments moving forward near 27th and Lake.
🎨 Anita White turns the sketchbook on herself
Anita White is one of 120 artists showing their work across the neighborhood this weekend, debuting an inward-looking book at the LoLA art crawl she helped launch.
🚔 What we know about this morning's active shooter incident inside a Minnehaha Ave apartment building
A chaotic situation involving an active shooter inside an apartment building at 40th and Minnehaha Avenue ended with police shooting the suspect around 4:30 this morning.
👗 Audrey Rose Vintage brings retail flair to sleepy Snelling Ave
A look at the newly-relocated Audrey Rose Vintage, Snelling Avenue's only retail shop.
🛶 Scott Miller's quick trip down the Mississippi
Talking with Longfellow resident and business owner Scott Miller, ahead of next weekend's Riverview Theater premiere of a documentary about his team's world-record-breaking trip down the Mississippi.
🍜 Asian Duck makes a go of it at 46th and Minnehaha
Following two short-lived predecessors, the husband-and-wife duo is serving up a tight menu of Thai and Laotian favorites.
☕️ A year of growth for Wildflyer Coffee
Catching up with Wildflyer ahead of its annual fundraiser on Wednesday.
🏚 Cleanup has (slowly) begun at the former Third Precinct
The fences, barbed wire, and concrete barricades should come down later this summer.
💸 All Square gets windfall grant
The money will help sustain All Sqaure's rapid growth from a small grilled cheese restaurant employing formerly incarcerated people to an influential criminal justice reform advocate connecting incarcerated people to legal training, and running a law firm of its own.
🍦 Minnehaha Scoop opens Friday
James Freid has been supplying his neighborhood with ice cream for a long time.
🚧 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.
🚲 The Hub returns this weekend
The bike co-op is reopening in a smaller part of the same building March 30.
🎥 Love is Blind *almost* filmed in Longfellow
It would've been great publicity for the new Clay Pit pottery studio, but this neighborhood newsletter feature will have to do.
