Minneapolis, MN
A developer wants to tear down an old Minneapolis flour mill. Some neighbors want to save it.
Once home to dozens of grain elevators, Minneapolis has since seen most of them demolished by consolidation and progress.
With its flour-dusted glory days behind it, the Nokomis Mill is now prone to graffiti and trespassers who sometimes leave needles and syringes behind, which is why it has 24-hour guards, surveillance cameras, and 6-foot-high barbed wire fences. It would cost about $35,000 to remove some 60 sections of graffiti tags to comply with orders issued by the city, according to the Zachary Group.
According to the Zachary Group, it costs $13,000 per week to secure the ADM grain mill. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
“Nevertheless, vandals, squatters and criminals have continuously compromised the site for nefarious activities,” the Zachary Group wrote in a letter to the city. “It is our firm belief that there is no reasonable amount of money that can be spent to prevent the criminal activities without demolishing all existing structures.”
The 2.4-acre complex is located on “ancestral homelands of the Dakota people” and the Minnehaha-Hiawatha corridor, which was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation established in 1819 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. “We believe fervently that these beginnings of stolen Native American land where this grain mill sits need to be reconciled,” Albers wrote in his appeal.
Demolishing the property would amount to “erasure of people’s history,” he said. As an example, he points to the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews at the remains of the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
He argues there are viable economic alternatives to adapt the buildings for re-use. For example, the former Layhart grain elevators were converted into housing, the former Bunge elevator was converted into a housing cooperative, and the Mill Ruins apartments and museum are an example of adaptive re-use. He’d like to see the corridor converted into green spaces and bike paths.
MINNEAPOLIS (WJON News) — A popular Broadway show will be hitting a Minnesota stage this fall. Mamma Mia! will jump-start the Broadway on Hennepin series at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis from September 15th to the 20th.
Mamma Mia! has been seen in 50 productions in 16 different languages.
The 25th Anniversary production of Mamma Mia! made its return to Broadway last year for a limited run at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it got its start. The show also had a record-setting 14-year run on Broadway and toured from 2000 to 2017 with four different touring companies.
Mamma Mia! has grossed over $7 billion at the box office.
It inspired the blockbuster smash starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Amanda Seyfried as well. The 2018 follow-up, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the most successful live musical movie sequel of all time.
Mamma Mia! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Anthony Van Laast. Tickets for the show go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Friday.
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A child was seriously injured after a car hit them in an alley in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
Minneapolis police say a child was playing in an alley near 29th Avenue North and Lyndale Avenue North around 11:30 a.m. when a car hit them. The child was brought to the hospital with potentially-life-threatening injuries, police added.
The child’s age was not released by law enforcement.
The driver of the car stayed at the scene and is cooperating with law enforcement, Minneapolis police said.
There have been no arrests at this time.
A Minneapolis man is behind bars after stabbing a woman early Saturday morning.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers responded to a stabbing around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of W 24th St. and Pillsbury Avenue. Officers found an adult woman with a non-life-threatening injury consistent with an edged blade.
Authorities said a man known to the woman stabbed her after a verbal argument escalated.
Police arrested a 49-year-old man and is currently at the Hennepin County Jail, pending a second-degree domestic assault charge.
Police said no one else was hurt. The case remains under investigation.
If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, several resources are available to offer help. For immediate help, contact:
More than 12 million people just in the U.S. are affected by domestic violence every year, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
The organizations listed above can help connect victims to resources like safe shelter, advocacy, legal help and support groups.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline also offers tips for identifying abuse and supporting victims of abuse. CLICK HERE to see those.
Other organizations that can help include:
Minnesota also has a list of many other resources for victims of crimes that can be found HERE.
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