Hennepin County auctioning off retro 1960s Minneapolis motel signs

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – If you’re available in the market for a traditional neon motel signal, now we have some excellent news for you. Hennepin County is auctioning off two Nineteen Sixties-era motel indicators from Minneapolis.

Each indicators are from two former motel properties alongside the identical stretch of Lyndale Avenue South close to West 57th Avenue: The previous Aqua Metropolis Motel and the previous Metro Inn Motel.

Each motels had been utilized by the county to deal with high-risk populations throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The county in the end bought each motels with COVID-19 aid funds and, because the pandemic eased, made plans to transform the properties into reasonably priced housing.

The Metro Inn conversion was set to be accomplished this winter. As of final fall, there was no timetable for the Aqua Metropolis property.

Again to the public sale, demand for the indicators is not too excessive thus far. As of Tuesday afternoon, probably only some hours into the motion, no bids had been submitted for both signal on motion website Municibid. What use may you may have for an previous motel signal? In accordance with a press launch on the indicators, officers say “these indicators would look good in a yard or vintage assortment!”