Minneapolis, MN
New concessions planned for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s Terminal 2
A major overhaul is planned for restaurants and shops at Terminal 2 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A request for proposals has been released by the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) for eight new venues at the smaller of MSP’s two terminals. The new venues will replace existing businesses or open within new space created through a $263 million terminal expansion that began this summer.
The MAC’s desired concepts include a local full-service restaurant, two national quick-service restaurants (such as burgers and fresh salads/sandwiches), one bar, three coffee shops (one located outside security) and a news and convenience store.
Brian Ryks, MAC’s chief executive officer, said in a news release Tuesday this is the first opportunity in a decade for local and national restaurateurs and retailers to pitch “new concepts, flavors and brands” at Terminal 2.
“We are focused on refreshing our concessions lineup to ensure we continue to provide quality food and retail offerings of varying price points, and innovative spaces and technology that meet growing passenger demands,” Ryks said.
Home to Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines and six other domestic and international airlines, Terminal 2 had its busiest month ever last March, serving more than 711,000 passengers and supporting 4,588 airline operations, MAC said.
The request-for-proposals for eight units will cover 14,000 square feet throughout the terminal. Two are new concession spaces within the Terminal 2 expansion project, which will add two airline gates and other facilities on the north end of the terminal by early 2027.
MAC officials are looking for a balance of local and national concepts for food and retail, as well as concession operators with experience operating in a high-traffic environment, said interim Vice President of Revenue Development Isabella Rhawie.
More than a half-dozen people are squaring off Tuesday in a special election primary in Minnesota’s heavily blue Senate District 60 following the December death of Sen. Kari Dziedzic.
The winner of Tuesday’s DFL primary is also expected to win the Jan. 28 general election for the safe blue seat and end a 33-33 tie in the Minnesota Senate.
Polling places are open until 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Doron Clark, who chaired the Senate 60 District for two years, is the DFL-endorsed candidate in the race. He works in the ethics department at Medtronic. Monica Meyer, the political director at Gender Justice, has also been endorsed by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. And Peter Wagenius, the legislative and political director for Sierra Club Minnesota, has been endorsed by state Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Other candidates include Iris Grace Altamirano, who has held leadership positions at SEIU Local 26; Joshua Preston; Amal Karim and Emilio César Rodríguez.
The two Republican candidates are Abigail Wolters and Christopher Robin Zimmerman. Wolters, a software engineer, is endorsed by the Minneapolis Republican Party.
Minneapolis voters are headed to the polls Tuesday to nominate a candidate for an upcoming state Senate special election.
The party nominees to arise from the Senate District 60 primary will face off in two weeks, on Jan. 28.
Gov. Tim Walz called the special election last month after former DFL Sen. Kari Dziedzic died of cancer.
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Eight DFL candidates and two Republican candidates will appear on the primary ballot, but a judge disqualified one Democrat, Mohamed Jama, from participating because of evidence that he voted outside Senate District 60 in November. Any votes cast for Jama will not be counted, per the judge’s order.
Polls are open until 8 p.m. A list of candidates and instructions for finding a polling place and checking voter registration are available on the Secretary of State’s website.
The district encompasses all of northeast and southeast Minneapolis and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on the opposite side of the Mississippi River. It’s considered a safe Democratic district and is expected to tip a tied 33-33 Senate to DFL control.
Minneapolis, MN
Judge dismisses environmental lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis over its 2040 Plan
A Hennepin County judge on Monday dismissed an environmental lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis, paving the way for the city to continue pursuing goals it laid out more than seven years ago for a long-term development plan.
While urbanists praised the 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which the city voted on in 2018, for focusing on denser and more affordable housing over traditional single-family zoning, others pushed for an environmental review of the plan, which they argued is likely to cause pollution and depletion of natural resources.
That latter position pushed Smart Growth Minneapolis, an environmental nonprofit, and several other groups to sue the city in 2018 over the 2040 plan.
That change in state law was cited by Judge Joseph R. Klein in his decision Monday to toss out the lawsuit.
“The legislation quite simply makes it impossible for Smart Growth to prevail,” he wrote.
The Star Tribune was unable to reach members of Smart Growth late Monday for comment. In describing the legal battle on its website, the organization said it had presented in court “an engineering analysis showing the harm that would be done by the plan… but the City did not even try to deny that the 2040 Plan would have adverse impacts on the environment or that it had neglected to identify those impacts.”
In an interview Monday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the decision allows the city to continue evolving.
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