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Park And Portland Avenues
Park Avenue and Portland Avenue are a pair of streets in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The northern terminus of the streets is in downtown Minneapolis. During the 1880s, mansions began being built along Park Avenue and the street was one of the most expensive in Minneapolis. The era of mansions on Park Avenue was short-lived and by the 1910s, many mansions had been separated into smaller living units. Increased traffic on Park Avenue furthered the decline of the avenue and in the 1940s, Park and Portland avenues were converted to one-way streets between 46th Street and downtown Minneapolis. Portland Avenue continues south of 46th Street as a two-way arterial street, serving Richfield, Minnesota, Richfield and Bloomington, Minnesota, Bloomington. A shorter portion also exists in Burnsville, Minnesota, Burnsville, but it is not contiguous to the Hennepin County route. While Park Avenue also exists in these cities, it is a minor street and not part of the major route. Safety on t ...
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Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hennepin County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,281,565, and was estimated to be 1,273,334 in 2024, making it the most populous county in Minnesota and the 34th-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Minneapolis, the most populous city in Minnesota and the 46th-most populous city in the United States. The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin. It extends from Minneapolis to the suburbs and outlying cities in the western part of the county. Its natural areas are covered by extensive woods, hills, and lakes. It contains over 21.98% of the state's population. It is included in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul–Bloomington metropolitan statistical area. History The Territorial Legislature of Minnesota established Hennepin County on March 6, 1852, and two years later Minneapolis was named the county seat. Louis Hennepin's name was chosen because he originally named Saint Anth ...
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Harrington Mansion And Events Center
The Harrington Mansion and Events Center is a historic property at 2540 Park Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The estate was built in 1902 for the family of Charles Harrington, who oversaw the Minneapolis office for the Van Dusen-Harrington Company, which specialized in grain processing and distribution. The Harrington Mansion and Events Center was purchased by Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in 2011, as the newest addition to Saint Mary's Minneapolis campus. The estate was previously owned by the Zuhrah Shrine, which bought the property from the Harrington family in 1929. The Harrington Mansion and Events Center, with a historic mansion, carriage house, modern events center, and 124 parking spaces, encompasses 1.66 acres in South Minneapolis. The historic mansion and carriage house cover 30,000 square feet, and the events center, built in 1990, contains 54,000 square feet. History of the Harrington mansion Architecture Designated historic by the Minne ...
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Racket (Minnesota)
The Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded in 2021 by a group of former '' City Pages'' editors: Jessica Armbruster, Jay Boller, Em Cassel, and Keith Harris. Racket focuses on local news, politics, music, arts, culture, food and drink, and theater in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. The previous funding model used by Racket's predecessor ''City Pages'', as well as most alt-weekly newspapers, depended largely on advertising, but Racket's founders felt that this model was outmoded. Instead, it is funded largely by reader subscriptions, a model inspired by the earlier success of Defector Media ''Defector Media'' is a subscription-based sports and culture blog and media company founded in September 2020 and based in Manhattan. The Defector blog is primarily written by former employees of the ''Deadspin'' sports blog. In October and No .... Racket reported in 2024 that it had generated $322,000 in revenue over the previous year, including $242,000 from subscript ...
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Twin Cities Daily Planet
The ''Twin Cities Daily Planet'', in operation from 2006 until 2019, was an independent website specializing in news events in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul metropolitan area. It published original reported news articles, articles republished from other local and ethnic media partners, and some content articles published by affiliated local and neighborhood blogs. The ''Daily Planet'' described itself as " hyperlocal journalism" and was profiled in the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' in 2011. In 2009, the ''Daily Planet'' won overall Minnesota honors as the "best independent online news website" in the annual list of Page One honors bestowed by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, lette .... In August and Sep ...
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Finance & Commerce
The ''Finance & Commerce'' is a daily newspaper devoted exclusively to business in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul) and Rochester, Minnesota. Overview Founded in 1887, it provides coverage of Twin Cities business news in the areas of real estate, construction, transportation, technology, banking, sustainable energy, health care, and advertising. The newspaper is owned by Gannett, through its BridgeTower Media division. Finance and Commerce is the official legal notice paper for The City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County, Minnesota. Its offices located are in downtown Minneapolis in the former Campbell Mithun Tower, and it has many union employees. See also * Commercial & Financial Chronicle The ''Commercial & Financial Chronicle'' was a business newspaper in the United States founded by William Buck Dana (1829–1910) in 1865. Published weekly, the ''Commercial & Financial Chronicle'' was deliberately modeled to be an American take ... References Externa ...
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Park Avenue At 38th Street - January 2025
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. State parks and provincial parks are administered by sub-national government states and agencies. Parks may consist of grassy areas, rocks, soil and trees, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as monuments, fountains or playground structures. Many parks have fields for playing sports such as baseball and football, and paved areas for games such as basketball. Many parks have trails for walking, biking and other activities. Some parks are built adjacent to bodies of water or watercourses and may comprise a beach or boat dock area. Urban parks often have benches for sitting and may contain picnic tables and barbecue gr ...
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