Southwest Journal, Sept. 22–Oct. 5

REAL ESTATE GUIDE

+ New projects could aid tight condo market PAGE B4 + Minneapolis apartment transactions running hot PAGE B6 + In the spotlight: Rare Form Properties PAGE B7 + A tight housing market hasn’t loosened — yet PAGE B8 + Selling in the off-season PAGE B10

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Tenants’ lawsuit raises question: Who’s the real landlord?

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Tenants said they hope to remain living at 3057 14th Ave. S., an apartment building ordered to undergo repairs

by Hennepin Housing Court. “Justice is being made,” said one woman (l), who requested not to share her name in print. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Activists want $15 minimum wage fast-tracked Council members say complex ordinance takes time to craft

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

“The rent can’t wait!” is the rallying cry of the activists calling on the Minneapolis City Council to pass a $15 minimum wage ordinance sooner rather than later.

“Businesses have paid poverty wages for too long,” Pastor Paul Slack told a crowd of more than 150 people who on Sept. 12 marched through North Minneapolis in support of a citywide minimum wage, stopping outside of fast food restaurants, banks and payday lenders as they made their way down West Broadway Avenue. Slack said it was “sinful” that some

employed at or near full-time still struggled to afford housing and transportation.

Although there is support on the City Council for raising the pay of low-wage workers, several council members said the city needs until next year to engage with workers and business owners and to study the impact of setting a minimum wage higher than is required by the state or neighboring cities.

“I would say that six months is a reasonable period of time to write a complex law, because SEE MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A9

When the firm Faegre Baker Daniels took on a housing court case pro bono in January, attorneys expected a two-day trial about the condition of a Minneapolis apartment building.

More than $1 million in client hours later, court documents indicate a landlord who purportedly sold his property under pressure from the city actually retained an ownership interest for the past four years.

“This is very serious,” said Council Member Elizabeth Glidden. “…

Frankly, without this case, I don’t think the city would have been able to get this information.”

The revelation that landlord Spiros Zorbalas remains connected to Minneapolis apartments came out in trial litigation alleging persistent bedbugs, inadequate heating and an unsecured front door at 3057 14th Ave. S. Hennepin Housing Court ruled in favor of tenants in the case Sept. 13, SEE RENTERS / PAGE A16

MPS extends pathway for learning Arabic

By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

Mohammed Ibrahim picked up some Arabic by studying the Quran, but the 13-year-old has also been learning the language in school since the fourth grade.

“When I study the Quran, I don’t learn about the animals,” Ibrahim, an eighth grader at Ramsey Middle School, said. “Here I learn what the animals are called and how to say other stuff.”

Ibrahim previously studied Arabic at Lyndale Community School, a feeder to Ramsey that has offered Arabic classes to fourth and fifth graders since 2008. Students in the Arabic program are now entering high school, and they need more classes to continue on the path.

Ibrahim hopes to be one of them.

“I think Arabic could be something big for my future,” he said. “I want to be a busi-

nessman and travel all over the world.”

Minneapolis Public Schools announced Aug. 30 it would continue the pathway for Arabic instruction at Washburn High School and expand programming thanks to a $68,000 grant from Qatar Foundation International, LLC. The foundation is a U.S.-based grantmaking organization dedicated to Arabic language and culture education.

“Minneapolis Public Schools believes in providing an urban education that prepares students to be global citizens,” said Superintendent Ed Graff in a news release. “Thanks to this partnership, our students will have even more opportunities to learn important languages useful for both college and career.”

The district’s first Arabic program began at Roosevelt High School more than 15 years SEE ARABIC / PAGE A12

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Completed renovations to-date at the Wedge Co-op include the meat and seafood departments and a made-to-order food counter. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Wedge Community Co-op renovation finishes this fall Two months remain in the Wedge Co-op’s extensive $4.5-million remodel, which adds indoor seating, more space for produce and made-toorder foods along the perimeter of the store.

The Wedge now has a bake house, and workers are arriving at midnight to make loaves and croissants from scratch. The produce section, when completed, will expand to the back wall.

The bulk section is now expanded to include products like cashew butter hemp granola, Atlantic kelp and 32 bean & 8 vegetable soup.

Customers can crunch raw peanuts into peanut butter at the store, yielding a fresh product without additives and without sugar.

“It’s some of the freshest bulk I think in the city,” said Jessica Pierce, director of brand marketing. “We go through product so quickly it truly is the freshest.”

The meat and seafood departments are redone with entirely local poultry and expanded seafood from vendors like Dave Ragotzke, who fishes for salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

The new deli area offers meat that is hormone and antibiotic free.

“This is one of the things people have been itching to have,” Pierce said.

Made-to-order foods include pizza on locallymade naan from the Artisan Naan Bakery.

There is a new juice bar and coffee bar serving Kickapoo coffee. A new salad bar — another top

customer request — will offer organic Wedgemade salads and soups and baguettes.

A second entrance at the south end of the building will cater to bikers and walkers who want to avoid the congested parking lot entrance.

Staff created more breathing room in the co-op by moving the commissary kitchen over to Wedge Table on Nicollet. The 10-month remodel is slated to be complete in late October.

“We wanted to make sure we stayed open during construction,” Pierce said. “We’ve only had to close twice.”

Co-op members can now vote on the possibility of merging with the Linden Hills Co-op and Eastside Food Co-op. Each co-op will vote independently. If adopted, the merger would create a single organization with 32,000 members and $75 million in sales. The voting period (voting can take place online, by mail or at the Wedge annual meeting) ends Oct. 18.

In the Voters’ Guide, the three co-op general managers said they are facing competition in the natural foods industry as conventional grocers increasingly carry products co-ops have carried for decades. The managers said coordination would help reduce waste, increase profitability and improve buying power on everything from employee health care to grocery products. No employees would be laid off as a result of a merger, they said.

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Coe Mansion Apartments The Coe Mansion at 1700 3rd Ave. S. is now slated to become apartments instead of a museum devoted to African American history.

Work to convert the building into a museum began in 2011 and was never completed, according to the city, and the building has been vacant since at least 2009. Roman Gadaskin is in the process of purchasing the property, according to the city.

The city’s Heritage Preservation Commission signed off on plans last week to convert the home and carriage house into nine apartment units.

The residence was constructed in 1884 for Amos B. Coe, a Minneapolis real estate developer. It was used as a single-family home for 24 years and became a hospital in 1908. It was later used as an orphanage in 1928, and a company that acquired the property in 1960 renovated the building for six residences.

The property was vacant and boarded in 1982. The city required that the house either be rehabbed or demolished, which spurred its rehabilitation and placement on the National Register of Historic Places.

The house became a duplex, and the carriage house temporarily served as a bedand-breakfast.

No exterior work is planned, aside from brick repair. A letter from designer Karen Gjerstad said the new owner hopes to keep as much of the interior intact as possible, and therefore requests permission to install two units at 288 and 275 square feet, less than the 350 square feet required by zoning.

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Locus Architecture doesn’t plan to go unnoticed on Nicollet — staff hosted live music during Open Streets, and the firm commissioned a giant mural of the City of Lakes by Sara Herman.

“Hopefully this won’t be a forgotten corner anymore,” said co-founder Wynne Yelland.

Locus has been in business since 1995.

One of the firm’s first projects involved designing and building co-founder Paul Neseth’s house in East Harriet, where they used reclaimed wood, exterior insulation and radiant floor heat.

“It felt a little cutting edge at the time,” Neseth said.

The architects say they practiced sustainability 10 years ahead of the curve. They have a few words of advice on the topic.

“The least exciting thing I can think of, that actually does the most, is insulation,” Yelland said.

People should insulate well beyond what code requires, he said. He also recommends using glass industriously to conserve a home’s energy.

At their own office building, they aligned windows to the south to allow passive solar heating.

“Oddly enough, this is the best view we’ve had in 20 years,” Neseth said Locus replaced the asphalt parking lot with native grasses and aspen trees and captured the roof ’s rainwater in a 250-gallon tank. The siding is thermally modified ash that is less susceptible to rotting over time.

The countertops in the kitchen are made from recycled glass.

All of the Locus staffers live within two

miles of the office. The founders said they like the low-stress aspect of living close to home, where the commute is exactly the same every day. The office includes a shower for those who bike or jog to work.

Local public projects by Locus include Sandcastle, Birchwood Café, the lobby of Circus Juventus and the Food Building in Northeast.

They have designed several church spaces, including the White Bear Universalist Church expansion in Mahtomedi. Their residential work ranges from urban home additions to cabins with incredible mountain views.

“Good projects are not driven by high budgets,” Neseth said.

One house for a longtime Minneapolis client features a meditation room and a secret door between kids’ bedrooms. Another house that won a local BLEND Award was designed with the housecats in mind, including a motion-activated drinking fountain, cat-sized nooks and sunny spaces and a motion-activated litter box with ventilation and lighting.

A side project called RAW — they call it “architecture boot camp” — brings their design work to locations across the world.

They brought University of Minnesota students to Biloxi, Miss., to build a park pavilion. And they recently returned from Tanzania, where they led another Real Architecture Workshop that built housing for an orphanage.

Locus staffers are also traveling out of the office to the Fulton Farmers Market, where they host a “creative kids zone.” The next kids’ zone date at the market is Oct. 1.

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Theatre Garage, David Petersen Gallery, Steeple People and Chi Tailors Businesses at the southwest corner of Franklin & Lyndale are preparing to leave to make way for a proposed apartment project.

The Minneapolis Theatre Garage is closing, Steeple People is working toward relocation, Chi Tailors is moving down the block and David Petersen is negotiating a settlement for his art gallery. One 21 4 East Barbershop has already relocated to 2325 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis Theatre Garage has no imme-

diate plans to relocate after a 28-year run.

“The building is coming up on 100 years old,” said owner Hosmer Brown IV. “It’s time to do something else with that site.”

He said one more show is slated for November. The first show on May 20, 1988 was a sellout performance by the Minnesota Opera’s New Music Theater Ensemble.

“It’s just been a service, just a place for artists to work without being handcuffed,” Brown said. “… My role was to provide space and stay out of their way.”

It’s a small theater with large posts — “design, don’t whine,” Brown said he’s repeated over the years.

“As an actor, there is no place to hide there. You have to be real,” he said. “The immediacy of the space is what made it so successful.”

Brown said he always figured the theater would be viable if it was busy 26 weeks of the year.

Before landing a building, Brown remembers staging performances at high schools or chilly warehouses, where they handed out coats to the audience. Brown said he purchased the building with his late father Hosmer Brown III, who returned from World War II to help develop the 50th & France business district. They sold the Linden Hills property currently home to Sebastian Joe’s to make the purchase, he said.

“Finally we found a building we thought would work, and it has,” he said.

Brown said his family purchased the building from fireplace manufacturer Hearth & Home, and it previously provided space for a car dealership, Van Dusen Aircraft and the Minnesota Society for

Crippled Children and Adults (today the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute).

Brown is an equity partner in the new development group.

“Why would you not want to live in this area?” Brown said. “It’s so much safer. It’s so much more pedestrian-friendly.”

He said property taxes have risen faster than inflation, and annual taxes at $9,800 have increased to more than $40,000.

“Things change, kids, so get used to it,” he said. “That’s the nature of life.”

Steeple People is working to finalize a deal

for a new location, said Manager Bob Janssen.

Janssen said the board has approved lease terms at a yet-to-be-announced location on Nicollet, and they’re hoping that all property owners will agree to host the thrift store.

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David Petersen said he’s at a stalemate in negotiations regarding his lease, which extends through the end of 2018. He said he’s working toward a settlement rather than assistance with relocation. He said he plans to relocate if they can reach an agreement.

“That’s still a big question,” he said.

Master Properties did not immediately respond for comment.

New paintings arrive at the gallery in a show running thru Oct. 22 by Atlanta-based artist Ryan McLaughlin. The artwork “subverts advertising’s intention of ubiquitous understanding, preferring subjective translation,” states the exhibition announcement.

Chi Tailors & Cleaners is moving down the

block on Lyndale to a spot between Red Dragon and Clown Glass. Owner Mor YangMoua said the landlord helped her relocate to 2114A Lyndale Ave. S. Yang-Moua said she plans to move before the snow flies.

“The earlier the better for me,” she said.

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Urban Hound Playground For a dog daycare and boarding facility, Urban Hound is unusually quiet. Owner Paul Vogelgesang said that’s thanks to the cage-free atmosphere.

Urban Hound aims to keep a low handlerto-dog ratio. By doing so, they can allow dogs who aren’t kenneled at home to roam free at the daycare as well. Dogs are grouped by size, and they interact with each other and staff all day in 13,000 square feet of space. (Crates are still available upon request.)

“We really do encourage interaction with our handlers,” Vogelgesang said. “We play with them all day long. … By the time night rolls around, they’re kind of tired.”

Vogelgesang hit on the idea after boarding his dog Milo during a two-week vacation.

Upon returning, he discovered that threequarters of Milo’s food was untouched, and nothing had been done to encourage him to eat. Vogelgesang said Urban Hound works well for anxious dogs that don’t use a kennel at home.

“You put them in a kennel and you see

the anxiety level skyrocket,” he said. “…We make sure that family member of yours who comes to us is taken care of.”

The family-run dog daycare is approaching a year of business in Windom.

Family members often work together at the daycare on Sundays, including Paul’s wife Julie and their kids Emma, Jack and Katrina (who helped write the business plan and marketing plan). Paul’s sister Mary Beth works as general manager, and they employ lead handler Megan Wetzel.

The family is considering further expansion at 6045 Pillsbury Ave. S., perhaps through a grooming service or self-serve dog wash.

Vogelgesang also operates Aqua City Irrigation & Lighting in the building. His family started Aqua City Plumbing, which first launched in Richfield in the late ’50s.

“We have a long history in Minneapolis,” he said.

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Crews sandblasted tree-branch patterns into the new Nicollet Mall sidewalk near Peavey Plaza in September. Photos by Dylan Thomas

Nicollet Mall sidewalk designs unveiled Crews are beginning to apply stenciled designs to the new sidewalks going in on Nicollet Mall as part of an ongoing, $50-million reconstruction project.

Project manager Peter Brown on Sept. 12 showed off the first section of completed sidewalk, located near Peavy Plaza, where crews were sandblasting a tree-branch pattern into the concrete using rectangular metal stencils. Brown said adding stencils to the cast-in-place concrete sidewalks offered the “maximum amount of aesthetic effect” while still being easy to maintain.

Stenciled concrete replaced the brick pavers originally called for in James Corner Field Operations’ winning design for Nicollet Mall. The change was a cost-saving measure after the city received a single bid for the construction project in December and it was over budget by $24 million.

The stencil pattern will change from leaves at the far ends of Nicollet Mall — areas dubbed the “Loring Woods” and “Mississippi Woods” by designers — to a basket weave near the IDS Center in the middle of the mall. In-between, in areas the designers refer to as “the groves,” the sidewalk pattern will be tree branches.

Brown said the reconstructed mall would include about six different shades and textures of concrete. Other pedestrianfriendly design details include low-profile gutters. Raised or “tabled” intersections mean that pedestrians will never have to step off a curb during a 12-block walk down Nicollet Mall, Brown said.

Brown said most of the concrete work was expected to be complete by the end of 2017, and the majority of new plantings should also be in the ground by that time. The finished design includes about 65-percent more trees compared to pre-reconstruction Nicollet Mall, he said.

Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer said the question her hears most often is: “What’s happening with the mall?” Now, Cramer can tell them some blocks will be “substantially complete” by the end of this year.

Projected completion date for the project is late fall 2017. That means the new Nicollet Mall will be ready to welcome Super Bowl crowds to Minneapolis in February 2018.

“We’re pretty sure this area will be a big part of the Super Bowl experience,” Cramer said.

This tree-branch pattern is one of three planned for the mall.

Eight city-owned public art pieces were removed from Nicollet Mall for reconstruction, and six will be restored and returned to the mall by the end of 2017, according to the city’s official timeline for the project.

Those six returning pieces will be joined by three new artworks, including a wind sculpture by Ned Kahn, who designed “The Wave,” a kinetic sculpture at Target Field that masks an adjacent parking garage; suspended lanterns etched with poems and prose by local writers, designed by Blessing Hancock; and what has only been described so far as a “key feature” of the mall by Tristan Al-Haddad of Atlanta-based art and design firm Formations Studio.

In addition, Regina Flanagan, a local landscape architect and photographer, was chosen to curate a public art program on the mall.

The returning artworks include “Sculpture Clock.” A relic of Lawrence Halprin and Associates’ design for the original 1968 version of Nicollet Mall, the artwork survived a 1990 reconstruction of the street but was no longer in working order when it was removed for repairs in December.

According to the city, the five-member restoration team working on the clock has applied for a Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage Grant to conserve the piece and get its moving parts back in working order.

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Marchers protesting the shooting death of Jamar Clark during a November confrontation with Minneapolis Police. File photo

Minneapolis awarded grant to recover from civil unrest A federal grant awarded to the City of Minneapolis aims to help the community recover from recent civil unrest.

Minneapolis was one of eight cities awarded a 2016 Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST) grant, which could total as much as $5 million over the next five years. The grants, offered through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, aim to promote resiliency and equity in communities, particularly those that have experienced mass protests and civil disobedience related to law enforcement issues within the last two years.

The November 2015 shooting of Jamar Clark during a confrontation with two Minneapolis Police officers sparked months of protests, including a nearly three-weeklong “occupation” of the Fourth Precinct by activists who camped on the street outside the station.

ReCAST grants also went to Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and Flint, Mich., this year.

ReCAST targets high-risk youth and families with a mix of evidence-based violence prevention efforts and youth engagement, while also providing behavioral health services to help community members recover from trauma, according to a description on the SAMHSA web page. The City of Minneapolis plans to use the grant to

launch a local ReCAST program and offer additional training to city staff members who work with community members and community organizations.

The grant will bolster the city’s work with the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, according to a city press release issued in September.

The initiative, a U.S. Justice Department program launched in 2014 under former Attorney General Eric Holder, promotes reconciliation in communities where relationships with local law enforcement have degraded. The initiative’s other areas of focus include improving police-community interactions and reducing racial disparities in the legal system by examining the role of implicit bias.

Jobs are focus of third-annual Trans* Equity Summit The third-annual Trans* Equity Summit on Sept. 22 will focus on employment issues for transgender workers, to be followed the next day by a job fair.

Crispin Torres, a musician, performer and community educator with Lambda Legal, is the keynote speaker of the summit, hosted this year by the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The summit closes with a performance by transgender violinist and mezzo-soprano Tona Brown.

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I had just turned 19 years old — the thenlegal drinking age in Minnesota. It was the first time I’d ever been in a bar. I was there to see my latest fave rave, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, who were touring America for the first time on their debut album “My Aim Is True,” the cassette and vinyl LP of which I’d worn out since it hit our shores the previous summer.

But first up this night was a new concept to me in this strange new adult world of clubland: the opening band.

Their name was Flamingo, a quintet ( Johnny Rey, guitar; Jody Ray, bass; the late, great Bob Meide, drums; the late, great Joseph Behrend, keyboards) from Minneapolis who I’d never heard or heard of before, but who, over the course of the next 45 minutes, lit up the spacious Longhorn stage with their raw, ripping, Stonesby-way-of-punk, guitar-fueled power pop. The singer/guitarist leading the band was a whirling dervish of focused passion and energy with stage leaps that rivaled my guiding lights of the day: Bruce Springsteen, the Clash’s Joe Strummer and the Jam’s Bruce Foxton.

This was local music? These guys were my neighbors? What other discoveries could I make via this school of live music? I was all in, and after that, inspired directly by Flamingo and the blossoming Minneapolis punk scene of that time, I went on to sing in bands and chronicle as much of it as was humanly possible. Thinking back on it now, I’m grateful my gateway drug to all these sounds and people was Flamingo, led by that ’78 dervish, the great singer/guitarist/songwriter Wilkinson. He was my first local musician hero, and I’m not alone in my admiration.

As decreed by Mayor Betsy Hodges and the City of Minneapolis, Sept. 24 is “Robert Wilkinson Day” in Minneapolis, and friends, family and colleagues of the forever young rocker will gather at Famous Dave’s in Uptown (9 p.m.) for a 40th-anniversary reunion of the surviving Flamingo members, and a nightcapper with Flamin’ Oh’s, the Wilkinson-led band with drummer Sean Sauder, keyboardist Bob Burns, bassist Jenny Case and guitarist Terry Isachsen that has been churning out rockin’ live sets and recordings for going on a couple of decades.

Make no mistake, Hodges comes correct on the “Robert Wilkinson Day in Minneapolis” proclamation when she testifies, “WHEREAS Robert has continued to write and perform at a

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high level and share his gift, his enthusiasm, and his charm with generations of music fans. He is a great lover and supporter of local music and his talent and example are there to follow for any young band or artist just starting out. Every show he plays with a full heart, sweaty hands, and a reckless joy that comes from making great rock and roll music.”

Wrote Wilkinson in a prepared statement about his big day: “I’m honored, humbled, and grateful to have received this. We all are in a unique and wonderful position to make a positive difference in people’s lives every day through either a simple kind gesture, or a kind word or other acts of kindness, and for me through music sometimes. I’ve always tried to be a positive light in this world wherever I go, and whatever I do.

So let’s keep spreading that Love and Light!”

Wilkinson’s day job is as a media technician for Park Nicollet hospital. By night he takes to bars and turns dance floors into the sort of throbbing tribal dance party that he and his fellow first-wave punk pioneers the Suicide Commandos, the Hypstrz, the Suburbs, the New Psychonauts, the Wallets and a scant few others whipped up. Nostalgia be damned, that scene is from another time, long ago, when euphoric pogoing, slam-dancing and sheer sweaty exhaustion and oneness with the band was the order of

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis.

His new book, “Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits” (University of Minnesota Press) hits stores next month. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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So let this stand as a heartfelt note of gratitude from one fan to another. Wilkinson’s huge heart and rock and roll spirit may not be the stuff of gold records or viral videos, but his story as a survivor and thriver is inspiring to anyone who’s ever taken to a stage to kick out the jams in a neon-lit bar. It’s a time-honored profession, of which Todd Rundgren once said, “All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, but not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.”

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we’re really just starting the process now in October,” Lisa Bender, who represents Ward 10 on the City Council said.

A Minnesota Supreme Court ruling in August blocked an attempt to put the minimum wage question in front of voters via a proposed amendment to the city charter, and so activists pushing for higher wages changed tack: Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, the nonprofit that had pledged to turn out voters for the amendment, shifted its grassroots campaign to instead pressure the City Council to pass a minimum wage ordinance this year.

But the Council was already devising its own timeline. A staff report outlining the schedule for crafting the ordinance and a community engagement process is due to the Council Oct. 5, and Bender said a vote could come sometime in the second quarter of 2017.

She said they need that time to answer critical questions, including how the law would impact employers, whether small and large businesses will be treated differently and on what schedule wages will rise.

The proposed charter amendment included a phase-in of higher wages, beginning with a hike to a $10 minimum wage in Aug. 2017 and reaching $15 per hour in 2020. The phase-in was slower for businesses with fewer than 500 workers.

I would say that six months is a reasonable period of time to write a complex law, because we’re really just starting the process now in October.

— Lisa Bender, Ward 10 City Council

“Businesses have paid poverty wages for too long,” Pastor Paul Slack of New Creation Church (above) told a crowd rallying for a $15 minimum wage.

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Workers like Rosheeda Credit argue there is an urgent need for action. At the rally in North Minneapolis on Sept. 12, Credit, a former healthcare worker now employed by McDonald’s, said she could “barely afford” childcare for her five children and that her car sat in a garage for six months because she didn’t have the money to fix it.

Credit, who attended the rally with her four-year-old son, Rovon, said she earns $9.50 an hour, two dollars over the state’s minimum wage, and is typically scheduled for 30 hours a week. When she finished speaking, the crowd responded with chants of “Fifteen now!”

City Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3) said his colleagues want time for “genuine

engagement” with both workers and business owners. When higher wages take effect depends on how the ordinance is written — and whether it passes the Council — not, necessarily, whether the vote is taken this year or next, Frey added.

“Taking a vote sometime in early to mid 2017 doesn’t necessarily impact (the timing of) implementation,” he said.

Mike Griffin, field director for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, said the Council as recently as last year considered a citywide minimum wage of $15 “virtually impossible. ” “Now they’ve come back with a six-month timeline, and I feel like that’s a victory for workers,” Griffin said.

He said a coalition that includes NOC, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha and 15 Now Minnesota in September launched a ward-by-ward grassroots campaign focused on getting an ordinance passed “as soon as possible.” When pressed to clarify if “as soon as possible” meant this year, Griffin demurred — a subtle shift in NOC’s message since the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.

“In a city with the worst racial gaps in the entire nation, we think this should be a priority for the City Council,” he said.

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By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

DFL endorses Vote YES for Kids The Minneapolis DFL Party endorsed Vote YES for Kids, the official campaign to pass the Minneapolis Public Schools referendum.

The campaign aims to renew the existing levy, which was passed in 2008 and accounts for nearly 13 percent, or $74 million, of the district’s budget. The district reports the operating referendum currently provides funding for 591 classroom teachers, more than 150 support staff positions, curriculum development and classroom technology.

“Referendum dollars are critical to the success of Minneapolis Public Schools and its 36,000 students,” said Dan McConnell, chair of the Minneapolis DFL Party, in a news release.

“The Minneapolis DFL has always supported public education, and by working to get this referendum passed, we will continue to do so.”

Donald McFarland, campaign manager for the Vote YES campaign, said property taxes would not increase if the referendum renewal passes.

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ago. Now, Arabic is also offered at Lyndale, Ramsey, Sanford Middle School, South High School, Wellstone High School and Heritage Academy of Science and Technology.

Minneapolis is the only district in the metro area that offers Arabic from elementary to high school, according to a news release.

Ayumi Stockman, a world languages content specialist in the district’s Multilingual Department, said finding Arabic teachers and curriculum is a challenge.

“There aren’t too many materials appropriate for the K–12 level for Arabic,” Stockman said.

“There’s almost nothing there compared to languages like Spanish or French or Japanese that have been taught for longer than Arabic. Because Arabic is still very new in the K–12 scene, the teachers have to be very, very creative. They will bring their own experiences and knowledge and wisdom.”

The district serves many students with close cultural ties to Arab countries and the Arabic language.

Arabic is the ninth most-common language in the district, according to Dirk Tedmon, a spokesman for the district. Last year, it was the primary language at home for 71 students.

If a pathway for students to study Arabic through high school wasn’t established, Lyndale and Ramsey were prepared to drop the program.

Renee James, principal at Lyndale, said parents are adamant about keeping Arabic in the district.

“Last year, when there was a possibility that we’d have to reduce our Arabic program, most of our white families were the most upset. They really saw Arabic as an opportunity,” James said.

“Our Somali families appreciate our Arabic offerings, but they have different avenues.”

Providing students with a unique skill sets them apart and makes transitions easier, James said.

“We really try to provide learning opportunities for our children, so that when they leave us, they feel confident that they have something to

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contribute in their next learning experience," James said. “We feel that this experience really enhanced their ability to move on.”

James focused on the transition from elementary school to middle school, but opportunities to apply Arabic in new academic settings — or even professional ones — exist in Minneapolis outside the public school system.

Katrien Vanpee, director of the Arabic program in the department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, said the program has grown since she took over in 2014. An Arabic major was approved on Sept. 15.

“Because the Arabic program, in its new shape, hasn’t been around for long, we haven’t had a chance to build solid connections with the school system,” Vanpee said. “We would hope that in the future we could make connections with instructors or people leading schools where Arabic is offered so that there can be more of an open communication about what they’re doing and what students would need to get ready for us.”

Vanpee said that enrollment and retention are good, and that the Arabic program continues to develop. By the time students from Minneapolis graduate, the university will be equipped to continue the pathway beyond high school.

David Weingartner, a member of the site council at both Lyndale and Ramsey, said he has four primary concerns: funding, scheduling, teachers and enrollment.

Ensuring that students who commit to learning Arabic in fourth grade have an opportunity to continue through high school is the first step, Weingartner said.

“My concern is when we tell families there’s a pathway, that it’s sustainable,” he said. “I think the expectation is that you take a language in middle school, is that your pathway high school would offer the language as well.”

Next, developing a curriculum and establishing a sustainable program in a high school is difficult, Weingartner said. Scheduling the classes, retaining students and finding funding

Rita Farah teaches Arabic to fourth and fifth graders at Lyndale Community School. Students in this fifth grade class raised their hands to say their favorite day of the week in Arabic. Photo by Zoë Peterson

are all hurdles to introducing a new class at the high school level.

“It’s really difficult putting a language into a school, especially a small language where you don’t have a lot of students,” he said. “You’ll have five sections of Spanish One and then maybe three sections of Spanish Two and that kind of dribbles out until you have one section of Spanish Four. If they only have one class of Arabic One, can you continue the next couple years?”

Plus, it’s much harder to find an Arabic teacher than a Spanish teacher.

“There aren’t a lot of Arabic teachers out there.

You lose a teacher, you could lose a program,”

Weingartner said. “There’s two or three licensed Arabic teachers in the state of Minnesota, so you can’t replace them.”

Angie Martin, assistant principal at Ramsey, said the Arabic path adds value to the school’s foreign language programming.

“The Arabic program allows us to better serve our students, keeping in mind equity and making our school culturally relevant,” Martin said. “It’s definitely important in our community, and we wanted to be able to build on the language development that students had already started at Lyndale.”

Kate Goeddeke, an associate educator at Ramsey, supports strengthening the path

between Lyndale, Ramsey and Washburn.

“I think Arabic is such a good language for Ramsey to include,” she said. “To give Arabic a formal place in school is validating of that culture as an important part of our community.”

Farhiya Farah, the parent of three district students, said she hopes one day the Arabic curriculum will be more challenging, but she appreciates the program’s emphasis on comprehension.

“My children read and write well in Arabic, but there’s no comprehension. It’s kind of silly,” Farah said. “We studied Arabic because the Quran is in Arabic. Coming from that angle, the teachers don’t put an emphasis on grammar or comprehension — it’s purely rote memorization. The Arabic they’re doing [at school] is more cultural related.”

Stockman said part of the grant would go toward curriculum development. Currently there is curriculum for level-one classes and classes that combine levels two and three.

Stockman said the district hopes to offer five levels of Arabic one day.

This semester the district will host an educational event for the Arabic program.

“We want to educate people about Arabicspeaking culture and countries,” Stockman said.

“It’s important for our community with what’s going on in the world right now and students that we serve.”

Rita Farah, an Arabic teacher at Lyndale and Ramsey, said Arabic is the third most difficult language to learn — after Mandarin and Russian — but is worth introducing into traditional foreign language programming.

“It’s not an easy language to learn,” Farah said.

“I always tell my students: You’re speaking and comprehending. You’re learning a new language, learning about a new world.”

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A voice for bikes speaks up for walkers, too Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition will change name to reflect expanded mission

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition plans to revamp its identity next year as it expands its mission to advocate for walkers and wheelchair users in addition to bicyclists.

The coalition announced in September it plans to unveil a new name and logo in 2017 to reflect an expansion of the nonprofit’s work into the pedestrian realm. A powerful voice for bike lanes and safer streets at City Hall, the coalition will be speaking up for pedestrians more in the future.

“We’ve already been working to support people walking and in wheelchairs, but we want to bring that more to the fore, be more intentional about it and that’s what this move is about,” Executive Director Ethan Fawley said.

Open Streets, possibly the coalition’s highest-profile initiative, is a series of events that temporarily closes city streets to motorized traffic to make room for walking, biking and all kinds of car-free activities. Much of the coalition’s advocacy has as much potential benefit to pedestrians as it does cyclists, Fawley said, specifically mentioning its work on Safe Routes to School and the city’s complete streets policy.

LaTrisha Vetaw, president of the coalition’s board of directors, said the shift would help the organization diversify its membership.

“I do believe this is going to be our connections to communities of color, because more walk than bike,” Vetaw said.

Founded in 2009 as an all-volunteer organization, the coalition now employs 10 paid staff members, and Fawley said they’re projecting a $500,000 annual budget in 2017.

That’s a nearly 67-percent increase from 2014, when the annual budget was $300,000.

Slice a few zeroes off of the end of that figure to arrive at the organization’s budget in 2010, its first full year of operations, when Fawley said the coalition worked off of just $300.

As the coalition was planning the change earlier this summer, staff reached out to pedestrian advocate Scott Engel, who recently completed five years on the city’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Engel said

he was “frustrated” with the pace of pedestrian improvements and expressed his hope that pedestrians would soon more strength at City Hall.

“The bicycle coalition has just done an amazing job over the last multiple years really influencing how the city functions and making the city welcoming for bicyclists,” Engel said. “A comparable or similar group just doesn’t exist for pedestrians and walking, and I think they’re filling a void.”

With other members of the Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Engel launched a Minneapolis Pedestrian Alliance group page on Facebook, which he said was up to about 400 members. The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition claims 1,300 active volunteers in addition to paid staff.

“The bicycle coalition has this infrastructure and capacity in place already,” Engel said. “It’s just going to move things forward so much more quickly.”

Fawley said the coalition plans to spend the months leading up to the name-change engaging with its members and others before setting priorities for its pedestrian advocacy.

“We want to do that in a way that brings new people in, to make sure that we’re serving the full range of our city and that we’re not leaving people out who have a lot of needs and interest,” he said.

Fawley noted several other organizations that started with a focus on bicycles eventually expanded their work to include pedestrians. The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, founded in 1985, made the shift in 2008, when it changed its name to the Active Transportation Alliance.

Vetaw said the alliance was a model for a successful transition.

“We need to be on the same team,” she said. “It’s the same streets. We’re walking the same streets, we’re biking the same streets.”

The coalition took public input on the changes at several recent events and is offering another opportunity to share an opinion 4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. Sept. 22 at its office, 1428 Washington Ave. S.

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Protected bicycle lanes on 3rd Avenue officially open New lanes will be improved and expanded next year, mayor announced

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Mayor Betsy Hodges and several City Council members on Sept. 8 joined a pack of cyclists who celebrated the new protected bicycle lanes on 3rd Avenue by pedaling from City Hall to the Convention Center.

Hodges said the official opening of a new north-south route through downtown made for “a big and auspicious day,” noting the ongoing reconstruction of Nicollet Avenue meant cyclists had fewer options for riding in the city center.

She said protected bike lanes make drivers take notice of cyclists, leading to fewer accidents.

“This is about safety,” Hodges said. “There will be fewer collisions.”

The protected bike lanes run on 3rd Avenue between South 1st and East 16th streets, and include both striping and a row of plastic bollards dividing motorized and un-motorized traffic.

Not all of the southbound lane was open for the mayor’s inaugural ride; construction on the east side of the U.S. Bank Plaza block meant the cyclists had to “take the lane” and briefly ride with cars and trucks between 5th and 6th streets.

Hodges announced that same day that the city and the Minnesota Department of Transportation were planning to extend the new protected bike lanes across the Mississippi River on the 3rd Avenue Bridge in 2017, creating a connection to University Avenue. Other upgrades to the existing lanes are planned for next year, too,

Mayor Betsy Hodges led a celebratory pedal down the new 3rd Avenue protected bicycle lanes.

Photo by Dylan Thomas

including new striping, additional bollards and new trees and plantings all along the avenue.

City Council Member Kevin Reich (Ward 1), chair of the council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee, said whenever the system of bicycle lanes is expanded in Minneapolis, “the system calls out for more.” Reich listed new connections to the University of Minnesota and the Northeast Arts District to the north and Eat Street to the south as top priorities.

City Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3) said the enhanced safety and visibility of protected bicycle lanes encourages a wider range of people to become regular riders or even bike

commuters — including, recently, his wife.

Ethan Fawley, executive director of the nonprofit Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition, said a protected north-south bicycle route was “urgently needed” in downtown.

“We know that there’s no comfortable way to bike through the heart of downtown,” Fawley said, adding that was “doubly true” during the Nicollet Avenue closure. He said he’d heard from cyclists who said the new protected lanes changed the way they commute into downtown.

Hodges included funds for the $3-million 3rd Avenue redesign project in her 2016 budget.

In April, the City Council voted to approve a

redesign of 3rd Avenue that added the protected bicycle lanes while maintaining four lanes of motor-vehicle traffic, two in each direction.

Some cycling advocates, including Fawley, argued that a three-lane design — one lane in each direction plus a center turn lane — would have had a minimal impact on motorized traffic flow while making the street safer for both cyclists and pedestrians. City staff ultimately recommended keeping all four lanes, a decision influenced by input from the downtown business community. But that meant removing a center median planted with trees and flowers.

Fawley said there are trade-offs to so-called “road diets,” noting that he’d heard about backups during the evening rush hour on Blaisdell Avenue since a protected bike lane was added this summer between 29th and 40th streets.

The one-way avenue previously included two southbound lanes for motor vehicles and a narrow bicycle lane. The bicycle lane was expanded to include a wide buffer between bikes and motorized traffic, reducing the driving lanes from two to one.

“Over time, people realize the (benefits) the rest of the day,” Fawley said, arguing brief periods of congestion are outweighed by the safety benefits, reduced speeding and improved livability for those who live on the street.

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The city’s Regulatory Services Department has ordered Stephen Frenz of Equity Residential Holdings and The Apartment Shop to fully disclose ownership of more than 60 rental properties, opening the possibility of revoking the rental licenses. Frenz declined to comment.

Efforts to reach Zorbalas were not successful.

Glidden said the case highlights issues of concern in Minneapolis’ tight rental market.

“Where are people able to find affordable places to live?” Glidden said. “How easy or hard is it for landlords to take advantage of tenants in a variety of ways?”

Life at 3057 14th Ave. S. “Justice is being made,” said one resident who asked not to have her name printed. “… If we’re paying our rent, we should be able to live in a good place that’s clean.”

The woman said through a translator that she was too afraid to join the lawsuit, but she’s faced challenges in the seven years she’s lived in the building. Water from the bathroom upstairs repeatedly leaked into her apartment, she said, and repairs were slow in coming.

“The floor here fell in because of all the water,” said her husband through a translator. “One night we didn’t sleep at all because the water was coming in to the carpet and getting wet.”

At trial, resident Elizabeth Ocampo said she saw cockroaches nearly every day, with no response to her complaints.

“When I see one I just kill it,” Ocampo said.

She stored one trapped mouse in the freezer and produced it as evidence during the trial. The housing court referee requested photos of the evidence — “Because I think that the clerks would be upset if I started storing the mouse in the lunch freezer in the

Residents of properties owned by Equity Residential Holdings that are slated to be sold gathered in the Corcoran neighborhood in August. The renters called for investments to maintain affordability and new city policies to protect tenant rights. Photo courtesy of Corcoran Neighborhood Organization

back,” he said.

The referee determined the apartment was infested with roaches, bedbugs and mice in violation of Minneapolis code. The court order said past extermination efforts were piecemeal and the management company “exerted undue influence on their pest control contractors” and “influenced them to

modify records after the fact.”

The court also found the apartments dipped slightly below 68 degrees in winter, in violation of city code. Ocampo testified that she bought heaters and ran them day and night to keep her children warm.

Another issue pertained to the front door.

The court determined the door was in poor

repair when the case was filed, as a person of average strength could pull it open without a crowbar. Strangers entered the building as a result, according to tenants. Ocampo testified that people came in to smoke, and she saw condoms on the floor. Unknown people in the building stole her boyfriend’s pay, she said, and she couldn’t make rent that month.

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This is very serious.

Frankly, without this case, I don’t think the city would have been able to get this information.

The housing court referee said testimony and evidence proved the company generated three fabricated leases and ledgers for vacant units.

The court order said Frenz “engaged in a highly involved, well-orchestrated deception” and said the misrepresentations were “knowing and calculated business decisions designed to minimize Defendants’ expenses and potential liability.”

In court, Frenz estimated the value of the Zorbalas properties at more than $30 million, and said he brought no collateral or cash to the bank as borrower, only his signature as guarantor.

Frenz testified that he and his wife do not totally own and control Equity Residential Holdings; he said Zorbalas owns entities that are members of Equity Residential Holdings.

The apartment ownership

Rent at the 17-unit apartment building on 14th Avenue ranges from $575-$695, according to the complaint.

Cockson said Minneapolis’ apartment vacancy rates are low and affordable housing is dwindling.

“Unscrupulous landlords can really take advantage of unsophisticated tenants,” he said.

The city licenses about 19,000 rental properties. Inspectors issue work orders in response to tenant complaints, Cockson said, but they do not follow up to confirm repairs were made.

If a landlord reports that something is fixed, the issued is closed, he said.

“The burden falls on low-income people, and that’s the opposite of what should happen,” he said. “People are taken advantage of every single day.”

Even if Minneapolis stripped Frenz’s rental licenses, the problem remains of who would ultimately own the buildings, said Eric Gustafson, executive director of the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization.

“Presumably they would have to sell them,” he said. “If that was allowed to play out in a free market setting, I’m pretty confident that’s not going to work out for anybody.”

Residents are already watching a smallerscale apartment transaction play out. Frenz recently listed eight of his properties for sale in the Corcoran, Powderhorn Park and Standish neighborhoods, as well as a building in the Lyndale neighborhood at 3121 Pleasant Ave. S. Average rent in the buildings is $770,

— Elizabeth Glidden, Council Member

“I called the office to tell them about people going in the apartment and the girl at the office said that I should just call the police. That it wasn’t their problem,” Ocampo said in court.

The court ruling calls for appointing an administrator that will ensure repairs are completed at 3057 14th Ave. S. The court also plans to order rent abatement in an amount to be determined, as well as payment for a “reasonable” amount of the plaintiff ’s attorney fees.

In response to the lawsuit filed by IX of Powderhorn Park on behalf of residents, The Apartment Shop called the suit a “vendetta,” and said in court documents the organization’s only reason for existence was to pursue the lawsuit.

“Plaintiff does not focus its efforts on improving an entire geographic neighborhood but is myopically limited to suing Defendants with respect to only the property,” the defendant said in its motion for summary judgment.

The landlord’s initial defense maintained that IX of Powderhorn Park didn’t secure enough resident signatures to file a lawsuit, and the case should be dismissed. But Frenz's legal counsel withdrew midway through proceedings and filed a redacted affidavit deleting his statements about the number of occupied units at the property.

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The name Spiros Zorbalas is well known to Minneapolis regulators. After racking up more than 2,000 housing violations in five years, Zorbalas lost a court battle with the city, which was seeking to revoke his rental licenses. The city applauded the 2012 sale of Zorbalas’ 38 properties, encompassing 762 rental units, to Steve Frenz of The Apartment Shop and Equity Residential Holdings.

Of all Zorbalas’ properties, Frenz said 3057 14th Ave. S. was in the worst shape, according to court records.

Attorney Michael Cockson, who worked on behalf of the renters, said this was his third trial involving Frenz in the past 10 months.

Cockson said it always struck him as odd that Zorbalas remained in public filings as the listed borrower for some of the properties. And he heard Frenz say Zorbalas was his lender, but he couldn’t find the paper trail.

“I kept asking, because I couldn’t figure it out,” Cockson said. “If I sold your house, I’m not going to remain on the borrower line on the mortgage.”

Cockson asked repeated questions about the apartment ownership during trial, and he said the judge’s patience was starting to wear thin with the line of questioning.

“I can’t tell you why Frenz finally told the truth,” he said.

He wonders if it was because of the piece of paper in his hand.

“I think he may have assumed I had the goods,” he said.

The impact of a tight rental market

according to CBRE, and occupancy is reported at 98 percent. An advertisement of the portfolio mentions “value-add upgrade potential,” and says banks are willing to finance acquisition and construction dollars in a way that helps improve returns during repositioning.

CBRE Senior Vice President Abe Appert said multiple buyers have the buildings under contract.

Gustafson said landlords typically fund repairs by raising the rents. And in the current rental market, a landlord could raise rents and fill the building with or without improvements, he said.

“When you talk about gentrification, this is it in concrete terms,” Gustafson said.

Glidden said the city can’t interfere in valid potential contracts. Regarding Frenz’s other holdings, she said city officials will try to figure out how to protect the properties and make sure to the extent possible that tenants are cared for.

“This kind of process does not happen quickly because of the significance of this,” she said.

The 14th Avenue resident said she doesn’t want to move. The apartment is close to her husband’s work; she said he’s been assaulted on the street, and she wants him close to home.

But if rents increase under a new owner, she said, they would not stay in the building.

The Corcoran Neighborhood has written to city officials asking them to place all FrenzZorbalas properties into receivership and commit resources to repair the buildings and preserve affordable rents.

Gustafson noted that Mayor Betsy Hodges’ budget currently allocates several million for preserving affordable housing. He suggested the city should also look at resources proposed for city inspectors.

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Paul Williams Tire and Auto Service shut down Aug. 19 at 510 W. Lake St., and the developer who now owns the site is planning to build workforce rental housing.

Lupe Development Principal Steve Minn said the size of the project will depend on land acquisition and city approval to reroute an alley that empties mid-block onto Lake Street. A smaller project would include 100 units without retail, and a larger concept could include 130 units and retail space, he said.

The height would reach six stories, and Minn said the proposed height may increase if the alley continues to split land he holds.

Minn said one-bedroom units of 700-750 square feet would likely lease for $763 per month, with two-bedroom units of 900-1,000 square feet at $1,150 per month.

Minn said those rents would be half the going rates in the area.

The project would seek tax credits for the construction of affordable housing.

Minn said the housing corridor along Lake Street and the Midtown Greenway has become expensive for renters.

“I think the Greenway is a very attractive amenity, but it has been extremely gentrified,” Minn said. “There are very few affordable options along Lake Street. … The area can tolerate more workforce housing.”

Parking would be enclosed and underground, he said, with 90-110 parking spaces and double the number of bike parking spaces. Minn said he’s not anxious to build retail if residents don’t have enough vehicle parking. Even if tenants take the bus to work, they still want to own a car, he said.

Minn said he currently owns the Paul Williams parking lot and building as well as a fenced concrete lot west of the alley.

He said he’s worked to acquire the Paul Williams property for nearly eight years.

Another property owner holds the corner lot at Garfield & Lake and an adjacent lot fronting Garfield Avenue. That owner hasn’t indicated a willingness to sell, Minn said.

I think the Greenway is a very attractive amenity, but it has been extremely gentrified. There are very few affordable options along Lake Street. … The area can tolerate more workforce housing.

— Steve Minn, Lupe Development principal

The owner did not immediately respond for comment.

Paul Williams Tire announced its closure on Facebook: “It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing that as of 6 (p.m.) today we will be closing our doors for good. With that said, we would like to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to all of our customers that we have served over the last 50 (years). It was an honor and a (privilege) to serve you!!” stated the post.

Lupe Development’s past projects include the Franklin Lofts at 111 E. Franklin Ave. and the Eat Street Flats at 15 E. Franklin Ave. ESG is the project architect, and Minn said he doesn’t have solid design ideas to share yet. Amenities may include a rooftop deck.

Minn will present plans to the Whittier Alliance neighborhood group at a date to be determined. He said he’s looking for feedback on the proposal to create an L-shaped alley that would empty onto a side street instead of Lake Street.

Pending city approval and secured financing with tax credits, the project would likely break ground in early 2018, Minn said.

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PARK BOARD MOVES FORWARD WITH WIRTH SPORTS CENTER DESPITE UNION CONCERNS The Trailhead would host skiing and mountain biking in the city’s largest park

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on Sept. 7 approved agreements with the Loppet Foundation to build and operate a long-awaited winter sports and outdoor recreation center at Theodore Wirth Regional Park.

The operating agreement, which commissioners narrowly passed via a 5-3 vote, incited protests. Speakers at the meeting argued it would displace jobs from Laborers Local 363, the union group that represents Wirth’s park keepers, and privatize park functions.

Commissioners Jon Olson (District 2), Brad Bourn (District 6) and Annie Young (At-Large) opposed the agreement with the Loppet Foundation.

As part of the approximately $8.5-million project, the skiing and outdoor recreation nonprofit would build and operate a new yearround, 14,000-square-foot welcome center called The Trailhead that would host the park’s crosscountry skiers, mountain bikers, snowboarders and par 3 golfers. It would have a café, event space, bike and ski shop, restrooms and space for the Loppet’s offices.

When construction is finished, the Loppet, a longtime partner of the board, would donate the building to the board and act as the center’s primary programmer, pay rent and cover longterm maintenance costs.

Beginning this winter, the Loppet will oversee snowmaking and mountain bike trail maintenance at Wirth, along with cross-country ski trail maintenance across the park system.

While Superintendent Jayne Miller has said none of Wirth’s 10 full-time golf maintenance employees will be let go through the project, they will have different responsibilities. Due to savings from the agreements, Miller is planning to add a full-time park keeper in next year’s budget proposal.

Several residents, union members and other groups attended the meeting to protest the agree-

The Trailhead welcome center will be home to equipment rentals, events and visitor amenities at Theodore Wirth Regional Park. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

ments with the foundation.

“The proposed agreement between MPRB and the Loppet Foundation could take living wage jobs away from community members and privatize the park,” said Cathy Jones, second vice president of the Minneapolis NAACP, in a statement following the meeting. “Concerned residents and community groups believe that this will further limit access to economic opportunity for people of color and potentially eliminate equitable jobs.”

In a Sept. 6 op-ed in the Star Tribune, Jones, Bourn and Local 363 President Corey Webster said outsourcing union labor “is counter to all of our shared values and could jeopardize the quality of our ski trails.”

“The thing that does concern me is as we reduce that sphere of where we provide fair, living-wage jobs there’s no guarantee in the future,” Bourn said at the meeting. “And we’re really cutting away at our guarantees and promise

to the people of Minneapolis that people that come to enjoy our parks aren’t enjoying it on the backs of exploited labor.”

At-Large Commissioner Scott Vreeland added an amendment to the agreements requiring the Loppet to adhere to an ordinance on paying the prevailing wage and employing union labor for construction. This requires the foundation to pay employees $26,730 or $12.85 per hour with health insurance or $31,590 or $15.19 per hour without insurance.

John Munger, the Loppet’s executive director, said the foundation already made a promise to pay livable wages, including for positions related to snowmaking and trail grooming. During the meeting, Munger said the work would call for one full-time, year-round worker and six to eight full-time workers for their winter sports season.

Munger said he expects the Loppet to create at least 35 jobs with the project.

“I don’t think there’s not any kind of

exploitive labor. I hope we’re giving lots of people an opportunity by adding these jobs,” he told The Journals.

Commissioner Liz Wielinski (District 1) thanked the Loppet for helping stretch the board’s “very, very, very tight resources” at a time when its regional park funding is becoming harder to come by on the state level.

“I think this is a new arrangement that we can try. I really think we have to be willing to think outside the box, particularly with the way funding government has become such a pariah,” she said.

Munger expected to break ground on The Trailhead in late September or early October, giving time for review from Minnesota Management and Budget and potential follow-ups with the board. The center is expected to open around May 2017, he added.

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By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

Dakota Access pipeline protest targets local law firm Activists, artists and community members gathered on Sept. 7 at the U.S. Bank Plaza to support the Standing Rock Sioux, a tribe working to stop the construction of a pipeline through culturally significant sites in North Dakota.

Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, has proposed a 1,172-mile pipeline that would transport crude oil from North Dakota’s oil-rich Bakken production area through South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.

Protesters said the locally based law firm Fredrikson & Byron represents Dakota Access.

Despite rain, about 100 people showed up downtown Minneapolis to protest the firm for retaining Dakota Access as a client.

Fredrikson & Byron has not responded to calls for comment.

Protesters held signs with slogans like “You can’t drink oil;” “Love water, not oil, keep it in the soil;” and “Water is sacred.” Others encouraged community members to call Fredrikson & Byron to persuade them to drop Dakota Access as a client. Many signs featured the hashtag #dropthedapl.

“This helps to illustrate that there are many ways to get involved with what’s going on, even here in Minneapolis,” said Matt Barthelemy, who helped organize the protest.

Protesters held signs like this one encouraging community members to call Fredrickson & Byron to protest retaining Dakota Access as a client. Photo by Zoë Peterson.

When the group moved inside, police threatened to arrest protesters for blocking the skyway, according to organizers of the demonstration.

As protesters took an escalator down from the skyway, they chanted, “We will be back.”

Across the nation, protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) have intensified, especially since Dakota Access was alleged to bulldoze culturally and spiritually significant sites over the weekend of Sept. 3.

The tribe and environmentalist groups are also concerned about the possibility of oil spills and leaks that could contaminate water sources.

Standing Rock Sioux filed a lawsuit in an attempt to halt construction, which is scheduled to finish by the end of the year.

“The construction and operation of the pipeline ... threatens the Tribe’s environmental and economic well-being, and would damage and destroy sites of great historic, religious, and cultural significance to the Tribe,” Standing Rock Sioux said in the lawsuit.

A federal judge ruled against the tribe on Sept. 9, but the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior issued a joint statement shortly after the ruling, halting construction.

Protests continue, calling for a permanent end to the project.

Ashley Fairbanks, an Ojibwe artist and activist, was the primary organizer of the protest.

“We’ve been fighting against pipelines in Minnesota for years, and now we’re standing with our Lakota relatives,” Fairbanks said. “This is an environmental issue — an issue for anyone who drinks water, which is everyone.”

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The plan follows Mayor Betsy Hodges’ call for Minneapolis to become zero-waste in her 2015 State of the City address.

The city’s goal is to recycle and compost 50 percent of citywide waste by 2020 and 80 percent by 2030.

Since citywide single-sort recycling collection began, the residential recycling rate climbed from 18 percent in 2011 to more than 25 percent in 2015.

The first phase of citywide residential organics collection began in the fall of 2015. As a result, almost 36 percent of residential waste generated last year was recycled or composted.

Stakeholder meetings are open to the public. Community leaders, businesses and organizations are invited share input and ideas to influence the plan.

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By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

Four arrested, six more removed at park meeting Police removed 10 people from a Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board meeting Sept. 7 for disrupting commissioners.

Of the 10 people, four were cited, including three for disorderly conduct for disturbing a meeting and one for obstructing the legal process or arrest, according to a park spokeswoman.

The removals come after months of disruptions from protestors, who have at times called for the resignations of board leaders and have been critical of the board’s hiring practices concerning people of color.

This summer, meetings have regularly gone into recess — about half of the last 13 meetings, Park Board President Anita Tabb estimated in a statement — while audience members chant or interrupt commissioners.

Tabb asked park police to remove four people for yelling while she read rules regarding the board’s open time period, which went on for over an hour even though speakers were limited to one minute.

Several audience members chanted, “Jayne Miller has got to go,” referring to the parks superintendent. The remaining people were ejected later in the meeting, which saw a packed audience of more than 100 people.

Later in the meeting the board’s Standards & Conduct Committee considered

a more formal set of decorum rules that allow the presiding board member to warn speakers who shout, speak out of turn or use inappropriate language. If a speaker continues, the commissioner may order police to remove them from the room, and people who knowingly disrupt the meeting may be arrested for disorderly conduct.

Commissioners voted to postpone a vote on the rules to a later date, though Tabb appeared to follow the rules during the meeting.

Tabb said in a statement following the meeting that the rules are consistent with state statue and the Minneapolis City Council process.

“I don’t think disagreements are what we are afraid of at all, in fact I think we welcome that. I just think it needs to be done in a manner that’s effective,” Tabb said at the meeting.

The Minneapolis NAACP leaders issued a statement following the meeting demanding an apology for the removals, which included speakers involved with the group.

Park Board requests 13-percent levy increase The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is requesting a 13-percent property tax levy increase for 2017, which factors in the first year of a 20-year investment plan to repair the city’s neighborhood parks and a potential minimum wage increase.

The full board passed a resolution Sept.

7 that requests the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BOE) set its maximum property tax levy at nearly $61.4 million, up from $54.3 million.

The request includes a one-time base increase of $3 million for the 20 Year Neighborhood Park Plan, which is expected provide about $800 million over 20 years to offset annual funding gaps in maintaining the city’s aging park system and street network.

Both the City of Minneapolis and Park Board have adopted concurrent ordinances committing to the investment. The amount is intended to equate to approximately 1 percent of all city tax levies for 2016. About 82 percent of the plan’s funding is expected to come from property tax increases.

The board’s Administration & Finance Committee had approved a 10-percent increase, but an amendment from Commissioner Jon Olson (District 4) increased it 3 percent to accommodate a potential increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour.

With the additional 3 percent, the request

reflects a 7.7-percent increase for the board’s general fund and tree preservation levies. The Tree Preservation and Reforestation Levy, the board’s special tax levy to build out the city’s tree canopy, would not seen an increase next year.

Last year, the board asked for an increase of 4.4 percent, including 0.4 percent for the special levy, for 2016.

The BOE sets the maximum tax levy for the City of Minneapolis, the Park Board, the Municipal Building Commission and the Public Housing Authority each year. It’s scheduled to set the levies Sept. 28.

Miller will present her recommend 2017 budget on Oct. 19. The board will consider the budget and adopt the tax levy on Dec. 7.

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The plan dedicates $22 million in new money for street projects annually along with $11 million for neighborhood parks, which face projected $15-million and $30-million funding gaps, respectively.

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Pop-up park opens in Kmart lot A new green spot offers a seat to passersby in the Kmart parking lot at Nicollet & Lake.

The pop-up park will soon provide a free coffee hour in the morning and a busking hour at night for musicians. There are plans for yoga, zumba, child reading hours and a Little Free Library. And more ideas are welcome.

“We really want the community to own the space,” said Aryca Myers, associate director of the Lyndale Neighborhood Association (LNA).

Myers said the idea stemmed from elderly and Somali community members who were looking for more green spaces.

“This is the densest part of the neighborhood, and also the least green,” Myers said.

Lyndale received a grant for the park from the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Blue Cross offers grants up to $20,000 (paid out of tobacco settlement dollars) for “Active Places Demonstration Projects.”

“If you have a great sidewalk it doesn’t matter if you don’t have anywhere to go,” said Sam Rockwell of the Center for Prevention.

The park will remain open through Oct. 4, if not longer.

“People have been really positive, and really curious,” Myers said. “If Kmart loves it and the people love it, we might extend it.”

While shopping for park furniture, the neighborhood association received a bit of sticker shock ($10,000 for two benches and four

Neighbors take a lunch break at a new pop-up park at Nicollet & Lake. Photo by Michelle Bruch

planters) so staff and volunteers made their own.

LNA President Robert Dahlstrom designed furniture and assembled the park with LNA Executive Director Brad Bourn and volunteers including Tim Cowdery, Janis Arnold, Yasmin Banishoraka and Sarah Super.

A posted chalkboard will show the park schedule and solicit more ideas for the park.

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Armatage Neighborhood Association (ANA): Board meets 3rd Tuesday monthly at Armatage Park, 57th & Russell.

Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association (BMNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Bryn Mawr School, 252 Upton Ave. S.

Odds of a child being diagnosed with autism: 1 in 110

Lowry Hill Neighborhood Association (LHNA): Board meets 1st Tuesday monthly at Kenwood Neighborhood Center, 2101 W. Franklin Ave.

Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association (CIDNA): Board meets every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. at Jones-Harrison Residence, 3700 Cedar Lake Ave.

Lowry Hill East (Wedge): Board meets 3rd Wednesday monthly at Jefferson Elementary School, 1200 W. 26th St.

East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association (EHFNA): Board meets 1st Wednesday monthly at Walker Methodist, 3737 Bryant Ave. S. (Health Service door) East Isles Residents Association (EIRA): Board meets 2nd Tuesday monthly at Grace-Trinity Community Church, 1430 W. 28th St. Fulton Neighborhood Association (FNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Pershing Park, 3523 W. 48th St. Hale Page Diamond Lake Community Association (HPDL): Board meets last Monday of the month at 5144 13th Ave. S.

Some signs to look for: No big smiles or other joyful expressions by 6 months.

No babbling by 12 months.

Kenny Neighborhood Association (KNA): Board meets 3rd Tuesday monthly at Kenny Park Building, 1328 W. 58th St.

No words by 16 months.

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Linden Hills Neighborhood Council (LHiNC): Board meets 1st Tuesday monthly at Linden Hills Park, 3100 W. 43rd St.

Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG): Board meets 3rd Tuesday monthly at Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave. S.

East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO): Board meets 1st Thursday monthly at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 3450 Irving Ave. S. Odds of a child becoming a Major League Soccer all-star: 1 in 2.2 million

Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 41st & Nicollet.

Kenwood Isles Area Association (KIAA): Board meets 1st Monday monthly at Kenwood Neighborhood Center, 2101 W. Franklin Ave.

Lyndale Neighborhood Association (LNA): General membership meetings are on the 4th Monday monthly at Painter Park, 34th & Lyndale.

Lynnhurst Neighborhood Association (LYNAS): Board meets 1st Tuesday monthly at 6 p.m. at Lynnhurst Community Center, 50th & West Minnehaha Parkway.

Stevens Square Community Organization (SSCO): Board meets 3rd Thursday monthly at the Loring-Nicollet Community Center, 1925 Nicollet Ave. S. Tangletown Neighborhood Association (TNA): Board meets 3rd Monday monthly at Fuller Park, 4800 Grand Ave. West Calhoun Neighborhood Council: Board meets 2nd Tuesday monthly at 6 p.m. at The Bakken, 3537 Zenith Ave. S. Whittier Alliance: Board meets 4th Thursday monthly at the Whittier Recreation Center, 425 W. 26 St. Windom Community Council: Board meets 2nd Thursday monthly at Windom Community Center, 5821 Wentworth Ave.

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Public Safety Update

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Crime alert in Diamond Lake and Hale neighborhoods Police issued a crime alert regarding a spate of house and garage burglaries between Aug. 30-Sept. 5, and police have arrested one juvenile suspect related to four break-ins.

Police documented 16 burglaries in the neighborhoods of Diamond Lake, Hale, Keewaydin, Minnehaha, Morris Park and Wenonah. In half of the incidents, suspects gained entry by breaking down the door or other means of force. In seven of the incidents, suspects gained entry between midnight and 4 a.m.

Residents lost items including bicycles, tools, garden or yard equipment and jewelry.

In addition to the juvenile arrest, police said they have identified another potential suspect in one other break-in.

Police are reminding residents to keep

doors locked at all times, even while at home. Police also advise residents to check that windows are secure, ask neighbors to watch for suspicious activity, and photograph valuables and document their serial numbers. Victims of burglary are asked to call 911 immediately and watch for anything that a suspect may have left behind, like a pop can or cigarette butt.

Lightning causes fire at Kingfield home The Minneapolis Fire Department has concluded that lightning caused a house fire Tuesday, Aug. 30 at the 3700 block of Pleasant Avenue South.

Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Tyner said the lighting strike occurred just before 1 a.m., and two adults and two children escaped the house without injuries.

Tyner said lightning strikes to Minneapolis homes are not common.

“There is really no rhyme or reason,” he said. “But it does happen from time to time.”

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A Minneapolis blacksmith makes custom fixtures and more — the oldfashioned way

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ef VanSyoc didn’t take metal shop in high school. It didn’t seem artsy, and VanSyoc wanted to be an artist. Little did he know that metal would become his medium.

VanSyoc, 42, is an artisan blacksmith and owner of VanMadrone Metalworks, located in the former Purity Bakery building in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn neighborhood. VanSyoc learned blacksmithing the oldfashioned way, with a two-and-a-half-year apprenticeship under a master blacksmith near Ashland, Wis. He was amazed at how his teacher could make locks, including the intricate inner workings. VanSyoc had to start with simpler things, like plate hangers and candlesticks. He made hundreds of each, eventually graduating to making and selling jewelry at festivals.

After having a son (now 18), the Rochester native settled in Minneapolis and began

making decorative pieces for homes and businesses, plus custom motorcycle accessories.

His repertoire includes hand railings, gates, arbors, trellises, dining room tables, chairs, benches, light fixtures, candelabras and kitchenware, including pot and pan racks, spatulas, cleavers, knives, spice racks and range hoods. He also makes mailboxes, coat racks, flower cages, security doors, axes and woodcarving tools.

The Twin Cities have more blacksmiths than they used to, but VanSyoc’s biggest competition comes from stores and catalogs that sell machine-made decorative metalwork for far less money. VanSyoc might work for an entire day on a handrail panel. A catalog would sell a similar piece for $50.

Customers who don’t understand why he charges more may not realize how much time and labor go into custom blacksmithing. He fashions all the rivets and collars that join SEE BLACKSMITH / PAGE B27

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Chicago native LaQueena and her three daughters became homeless this summer, forced out of their St. Paul home when other family members moved, leaving LaQueena unable to pay rent.

LaQueena turned to People Serving People (which does not identify its guests by last name for privacy reasons). The homeless shelter provided LaQueena and her family with an apartment and meals, at the same time helping her find a job and her kids enroll in summer school.

“Since I’ve been here, I’ve been moving where I want to go,” LaQueena said in late August. “They push you to do what you’re supposed to do.”

For more than 30 years, People Serving People has been helping people like LaQueena and her family, providing them with meals, shelter, childcare, health care, employment services and more. The organization aims to help families overcome barriers to self-sufficiency through its programs, services and traumainformed care.

“Our whole organization is shaped around treating our guests with a trauma perspective,” Daniel Gumnit, the organizaAddress: tion’s CEO, said. “We’re all looking at the world through this trauma lens, and that’s a fundamental core to what People 614 3rd St. S. Serving People is all about.”

Minneapolis, MN The organization does not limit how long guests can stay in its emergency-shelter units, though the average length of stay is 55415 41 days, Gumnit said. The emergency units are always full, he said.

People who utilize the shelter have to be at least 18 years old and either pregnant or have kids. The vast majority of guests Contact are survivors of sexual and domestic violence, Gumnit said, and many have mental-illness challenges related to that.

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The organization has been moving in the direction of homelessness prevention, Gumnit said, and central to that has been a focus on early childhood education, parental engagement and school-age programming.

“We really now are a national model for how you provide early childhood development programs to families that have experienced homelessness,” Gumnit said.

The shelter is licensed to hold up to 52 kids at a time in its four infant, toddler and preschool classrooms. Its teachers work with kids on their social and emotional skills from their first day in class, preschool coordinator Emma Juon said.

“As they gain confidence, we start to see them blossom and start to come out of their shells,” Juon said.

‘Here to be that support’ People Serving People also offers extensive services for adults, including employment support. Advocacy service coordinator Kasey Nimmerfroh said the employment-services department sees about 80 to 100 guests a month and helps them to overcome barriers — from a lack of transportation or child care to the need for school uniforms and a phone.

Nimmerfroh’s department has an open-door policy, allowing guests to stop in for immediate needs, like clothes for an interview.

“We’re not demanding anything,” Nimmerfroh said. “We’re just here to support, and I feel like that’s what really helps us build that rapport.”

LaQueena said she has seen that attitude among the shelter’s advocates. She said she would refer anyone in need to come to People Serving People, noting the positive direction the staff provided her and her family.

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What you can do Serve meals. People Serving People serves three meals a day to its guests, preparing more than 230,000 a year.

Volunteer as a mentor, tutor or childhood development program assistant. You can find a complete list of volunteer opportunities on People Serving People’s website.

Donate online through a planned gift or by dropping off items on People Serving People’s wish list.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live

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Jef VanSyoc, owner of VanMadrone Metalworks, apprenticed for two-and-a-half years with a master blacksmith based in Appleton, Wis. Photos by Owlyn Madrone

FROM BLACKSMITH / PAGE B25

his pieces together and deliberately makes his artwork with small differences so it doesn’t look machine-made.

“I don’t have child slave labor in my shop,” he adds.

VanSyoc makes most of his own hand tools.

He usually works with steel but sometimes uses stainless steel, copper or forgeable bronze.

He likes working with iron, but it is not readily available in the U.S. VanSyoc wears a patchwork leather apron, a sleeveless t-shirt and no gloves, because bare hands give him a better grip. His fingers and palms are blackened and so calloused that they no longer blister when burned.

He fires up a propane-fueled forge, inserts a steel rod and waits until the first few inches of the rod to glow as red as the flames that lick the forge’s exterior. When the rod looks ready, VanSyoc pulls it out, secures it in a vise and uses a long-handled wrench to quickly twist it before the steel cools down. The twists are uniform and neatly spaced, although VanSyoc uses neither a timer nor a measure. After nearly 20 years, he knows what to do.

“Every bit of metal that I work with is heated, hammered, sculpted and manipulated from its normal form,” he said. “I feel like I’m a sculptor of steel.”

VanSyoc encourages clients to show him photos of styles they like, but makes his own designs. He works with homeowners, contractors, businesses and designers.

Chris and Sally Mars found VanSyoc while searching online for someone to make a gate for the driveway of their Linden Hills home. Chris Mars is a fine artist and Sally is photographer.

They also rescue dogs and wanted a gate that would be unique and keep the dogs safe.

“We saw his work, and from the moment we saw it, it really spoke to us in terms of its beauty and aesthetic,” Sally Mars said. “When we talked to him, it was clear to us that he had the practical understanding to create something that was really going to function and work, as well as the artistic spirit to create something that has never existed before, from an aesthetic point of view.”

They told VanSyoc to design the gate from his own imagination.

“Everything that he added to the project that was outside the scope of the project that

The gate guarding the driveway of Chris and Sally Mars’ Linden Hills home.

we envisioned only made it more wonderful,” Mars said.

She described the finished gate as tactile, beautiful and a good fit with the rest of the property. Passersby admire it regularly.

“I would call it a type of landmark. It’s really fantastic,” Mars said.

The couple wants VanSyoc to make them a trellis next and, some day, a small balcony for their second floor.

Photos of VanMadrone Metalworks’ most recent work can be found on Instagram. The business also has a website, and he sells smaller pieces like coat hooks through an Etsy store.

In his spare time, VanSyoc is learning shoemaking and leatherworking. He takes metalwork classes from a master blacksmith in Pepin, Wis., and teaches traditional blacksmithing to individuals and small groups.

“I picked it up pretty quick,” he said. “I was always learning. I’m still learning.”

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The condo inventory of downtown Minneapolis remains low, realtors say, but developers have new projects on the horizon.

Joe Grunnet, founder of North Loopbased real estate company Downtown Resource Group, said it’s a sellers’ market thanks to rising prices and high demand.

Sellers are even able to take advantage of pocket listing strategies — when buyers pay a premium for units that haven’t hit the market yet, and sellers don’t have to deal with multiple showings. Grunnet said the market would “slowly but surely” add more supply.

“All your riverfront neighborhoods are highdemand,” said Grunnet, who specializes in selling and leasing downtown condos and lofts.

“There’s a lot more momentum going on right now with new projects.

“I think in the next 24 months, 36 months we’ll see some new projects come down the line.”

The downtown condo market, especially near the up-and-coming East Town, continues to be strong. In the six areas of central Minneapolis, closed sales are up about 5 percent percent year-to-date over last year, according to local market numbers from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors.

The number of new listings over the past year has stayed relatively level, increasing about 2 percent year-to-date. But not all of the neighborhoods — North Loop, Downtown East, Downtown West, Elliot Park, Loring Park and Stevens Square-Loring Heights — fared equally.

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change of all six areas, seeing 53-percent more new listings and consistent closings between 2015 and 2016, though it still sees one of the fewest numbers of listings and lowest inventories overall. The area also topped the other neighborhoods for highest median sales prices year-to-date at $540,000, up 1.8 percent. It also has the highest price per square foot at $418 year-to-date, up more than 13 percent.

Despite the growth, one area of concern is affordability for young potential buyers shopping for a first home who face rising rents thanks to a robust rental market. A fall forecast report from Colliers International MinneapolisSt. Paul predicts rents will continue to rise and vacancy rates will drop this season.

“We’ve got to bridge that gap so first-time buyers can get into the market from a new construction standpoint,” Grunnet said.

Challenges aside, Scott Parkin of Verve Realty said he sees millennials joining the housing market.

“They want to buy. They see the value of ownership,” Parkin said. “It’s going to be a huge market. Everybody in real estate knows that’s a market you can’t ignore.”

For resources on getting into the condo market, Parkin said the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors — where he is a board member — has monthly videos offering the “skinny” on the local, regional and national real estate market that are published to its website and YouTube channel. Grunnet also offers condo buying 101 seminars for groups or individuals.

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Units in the Portland Tower feature stainless appliances and hardwood floors (above). Submitted photo The building offers views of both the central business district and U.S. Bank Stadium (right, top and bottom). Photos by Eric best

The city’s newest condo building Jim Stanton of Shamrock Companies opened his ninth condo project in September and is already at work on his tenth.

The developer’s 17-story Portland Tower, located a few blocks from U.S. Bank Stadium in the Elliot Park neighborhood, adds 112 units to a market that hasn’t seen an influx of new construction, and demand as been high.

Colleen LaBeau of ReMax Advantage Plus said they sold about 50 percent of the units before they even had models to show.

“A lot of people like the proximity, that you’re

so close to the skyway, so close to Nicollet Mall. They like the new activity coming. The Commons park has been a plus. Some people like being close to the stadium. There are a lot of people who like that [Hennepin County Medical Center] is very close. And the fact there’s some new restaurants coming to the area, including a brewery across the street,” LaBeau said.

The building’s units average about 1,3501,400 square feet and include one stall of heated parking. Residents also have access to a fitness studio, a community room with a catering

kitchen and a sixth-floor patio with fire pits and a grill. The units themselves also have higherend finishes, stainless steel appliances and hardwood floors.

“Our standards are a lot of other people’s upgrades,” LaBeau said.

Across East Town, Stanton is proposing to build a whopping 374-unit condo building on the far eastern edge of downtown. The building, dubbed Legacy, is slated to rise around 17 stories at the corner of 2nd Street and 13th Avenue near the Mill District where a surface parking lot and the vacant Cenveo Building

once were.

On the other side of the river, another large condo project will soon take shape.

Alatus, the developer behind the 39-story Carlyle tower, is looking to build a 42-story condo tower with 214 units in the place of a Washburn-McReavy funeral home and the St. Anthony Commercial Club just across the river from downtown Minneapolis. The building could open as soon as early 2018.

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$1,264 Average Minneapolis apartment rent in June 2016 Source: Marquette Advisors

A Linden Hills apartment building at 2716 W. 44th St. recently sold for $2.42 million, a value of $161,000 per unit. Photo courtesy of CBRE Multifamily

Minneapolis apartment transactions running hot

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

The metro is on track to see a third year of recordsetting dollars for apartment transactions.

Colliers Vice President Ted Bickel said he’s seeing an influx of investment from the coasts and private equity firms.

“Minneapolis is seen as a favorable apartment market for national buyers,” said Mark Ruff, the city’s chief financial officer, at a meeting in late August.

Ruff said apartments are selling quickly and selling at high values, as payouts from alternative investments look less attractive.

“You could buy a U.S. treasury and get 1.5-percent return, or you could buy an apartment building and get a 4- or 5-percent return,” he said.

Apartments long sold for about $100,000 per unit, Ruff said, but new higher-end apartments have recently sold for $300,000 per unit.

“That’s an extreme example, but overall, the market has increased,” he said.

One of the priciest sales took place last year at the Whole Foods-anchored 222 Hennepin apartments, which Colliers reports sold for $91.45 million. The Walkway at 1320 W. Lake St. later sold to JP Morgan for more than $53 million less than two years after the building opened.

Abe Appert, senior vice president at CBRE, said national investors are interested in projects of 150 units or more. He said investors are attracted to Minneapolis’ job market, education and income levels, which they correlate with a

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Bickel said one concern in recent years relates to the potential increase in interest rates, but said he doesn’t see any major hurdles to the apartment market in the near future.

“There is a little bit of a national sense that things are slowing down, but we haven’t seen it here,” Appert said. “I do think it will taper off somewhat.”

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Recent Minneapolis apartment sales include the 12-unit Francia at 2222 Girard Ave. S. for $2.6 million, and a 15-unit brownstone at 2716 W. 44th Street for $2.4 million.

Maven Real Estate Partners recently acquired buildings including the 48-unit President Studios for $4.1 million at 2300 Nicollet Ave. and the 102-unit Laurel Curve Apartments for $3.35 million at 15th & Laurel. Maven Director of Acquisitions Nick Peterson said they opted for well-located buildings with a good price.

“The workforce is really strong here,” he said.

He said they plan to add value to the buildings by improving them, which would likely mean rent increases.

“We’re going to have to, just because of the amount of money for rehabbing spaces,” he said.

Ruff said rising apartment sale prices are putting pressure on rents and the supply of affordable housing.

Rents have risen at another 42-unit apartment building that recently sold for $10.9 million at 3101 E. Calhoun Parkway. Rent increases at Calhoun Shores caused some residents to move out, including Bill Remmer, a 101-year-old longtime resident.

One resident who requested not to print her name said new management is a bit stricter, and tenants can no longer place grills on the balconies. She said her rent has increased by about $100 per month. For those who sign new leases, she said, remodeling work extends to features like cupboards, flooring and paint.

“This is a beautiful building. … If you can afford it, it’s definitely worth being here,” she said.

“It’s not like they’re raising rent without offering something in exchange.”

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Mortgage consultant Paris Alves, designer Jennifer Jorgensen and Rare Form Properties founder Steve Imhoff. Photo by Michelle Bruch

In the spotlight: Rare Form Properties

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Real estate agent Steve Imhoff aims to prevent teardowns from his office at Rare Form Properties, where his dog Bonzer greets the walk-in traffic and a pillow on the couch proclaims “suburbs suck.”

“We generally go after grandma houses. The ones with the shag carpeting,” said Imhoff, a Kingfield resident.

That’s where partner and interior designer Jennifer Jorgensen comes in. Jorgensen helps when “houses need a little fluffing up.”

She finds lighting and chandeliers that match the home’s era and works with Residential Relics to rewire period lighting. Her projects include a speakeasy-styled Mill District loft, a bright Nordic room that adapts to low ceilings and a midcentury modern remodel with walnut floating shelves.

“It’s an extremely personal thing to go into someone’s house and change it all,” Imhoff said.

But you can’t make a young couple fall in love with floral wallpaper, he said. And he said a redesign can help buyers appreciate a home that might otherwise be a teardown candidate.

“Instead of selling real estate, you’re having an effect on the landscape of Minneapolis,” he said.

Rare Form used the same philosophy with their storefront remodel at 35th & Nicollet, where they converted a white box into a space with exposed brick walls and patched wood flooring (a job some thought would be impossible). They commissioned gold foil lettering painted by hand for the window sign.

Imhoff previously worked in corporate real estate jobs, where he said he became disillusioned with weekly meetings that focused on sales volume and closing business.

“Real estate is a lot more personal than that,” he said.

He opened his own business in 2006, starting out as a “coffee shop cowboy” before taking over the former SooLocal storefront on Nicollet.

Imhoff has watched the market change over time. He initially bought a duplex in Kingfield because it was the only way he could afford the

mortgage. Now he’s working with clients who wish they could afford Kingfield.

“Now if you live in Kingfield, you’re rich,” he said.

Imhoff holds 20 rental properties, and he helps investment-side buyers acquire properties of their own. He said one client buys a duplex with each pregnancy as an investment for each child.

Staff who work with Imhoff said he’s singular in a few ways. He doesn’t encourage homeowners to tear down walls to create an open floor plan. He has no problem telling people to wait. He may discourage people from buying a house they like if he thinks it’s a bad deal. And he will strongly advocate for a house if he thinks it’s a bargain on a high-value block.

“What is our position, if we’re not filtering the inventory?” he said. “It gets me into trouble, but I’d rather be direct and honest.”

Rare Form’s design work also applies to buyers who find a deal on a fixer-upper.

“Typically we coach our clients, ‘Don’t buy the polished pearl,’” Imhoff said.

Mortgage consultant Paris Alves, who offices out of Rare Form, said that with 5 percent down and a minimal remodel, new homeowners can end up with significant equity in the house.

“The cost of it was the manual labor,” he said.

The company continually finds similar issues in each Minneapolis house: small closets, small bedrooms and tiny kitchens.

“Everyone shares the same problems,” Imhoff said.

But Imhoff said small spaces can work well.

When a kitchen is well-designed, he said, people don’t notice the small size and never ask: Where is the island?

“A kitchen with a door on it is perfect,” he said.

If a kitchen remains hidden, the homeowner can throw dishes in the sink and return to a party without the mess on display, he said.

“A lot of it is making people value the originality of a house,” he said.

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AUGUST NEW LISTINGS AND PENDING SALES ACTIVITY

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6,945

A tight housing market hasn’t loosened — yet

7,072

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Inventory levels are lowest for homes targeted by first-time buyers

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2016

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2016

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By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Some of those who watch the Twin Cities housing market closely are asking themselves: “Is this the new normal?”

That’s the question Herb Tousley posed in September. The director of the Shenehon Center for Real Estate at the University of St. Thomas said the remarkably short supply of low- to moderately priced single-family homes in the Twin Cities market has persisted for close to a year-and-a-half and could continue “well into next year” — and maybe beyond.

“If you go back before the recession and housing market crash, we typically didn’t have this tight supply — but then interest rates weren’t as low as they are,” Tousley said. “…

When you’re looking at mortgage rates that start with a 3, that’s crazy-low.”

Local housing inventory in August dropped to just 2.8 months, the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors reported. Historically, in a “balanced market,” that figure — basically the number of homes available for sale in a market divided by the average number of homes sold in a month — is in the range of five to six months, said David Arbit, MAAR’s director of research and economics.

“The Minneapolis market is drastically undersupplied, given the demand,” Arbit said.

Still, Arbit doesn’t think it’s a permanent shift.

“Do I think we’re going to have sub-threemonths supply for the next three decades?

No,” he said. “Maybe the next year or two or even three I think we could have a tight balance — maybe three or four months (of supply).”

Arbit said Southwest neighborhoods — especially Linden Hills, Fulton, Armatage, Lynnhurst and Kenny — make up “probably

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the hottest market in the city.”

“Everything under $300,000 in Southwest Minneapolis has been snapped-up, either to be flipped or converted into a rental or maybe (bought by) a DIYer,” he said.

He said Northeast “is also a very hot market,” but has a lot more to offer in the low- to midpriced range.

“There’s more active listings that are below $200,000,” he said.

First-time homebuyers shopping at the lower end of the market, in particular, are feeling the pinch. The combination of rising rents and low interest rates (and the potential for an interest rate hike this fall) add to the appeal of a mortgage, and with metro-area home prices rising roughly 5–6 percent, prospective homebuyers feel a sense of urgency.

“I think people are looking at (it as) now’s a good time (to buy) before prices go up again and while rates are low,” Tousley said.

In June, the 12-month median sale price for a home in Minneapolis hit $225,000, and it held there through August, according to figures provided by Arbit. The Minneapolis market last reached that peak in August 2006, just before a national real estate bubble burst.

Adjusting for inflation, homes still aren’t quite as expensive yet as they were a decade ago.

The tight market affects sellers, too, who Arbit said “are scared out of their undies to list, because they don’t want to be a buyer in this market.”

MAAR’s current president, Realtor Judy Shields, said she knows the feeling. Shields, who lives in East Calhoun, is looking to downsize now that her children have grown up and

THE SHORTAGE OF HOMES —2015 VS 2016 Price Range Less than $200,000

$200,000–$399,999

$400,000–$599,000

More than $600,000

Year

% of available homes in July

% of homes sold in July

Months supply

2015

28.1%

39.5%

2.6

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21.2%

31.5%

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2015

41.8%

46.9%

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2016

35.1%

50.2%

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2015

16.6%

9.3%

7

2016

14.9%

10.2%

5.2

2015

13.5%

4.3%

11.9

2016

14%

4.3%

10.5

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moved out of the house, “but there’s nothing for me to go to, because anything I go to is going to be in that mid-priced range,” she said.

“Clearly, the condo market has been tight on all levels, so that downsizing opportunity to go to the North Loop is not” an easy option, she said. “It’s a dog chasing its tail.”

The storyline shifts at the upper ends of the Minneapolis housing market, where there’s more inventory and houses are taking longer to sell. Twin Cities home priced over $1 million took 180 days to sell on average over the last 12 months, compared to 52 days for homes priced in the $190,000–$250,000 range, Arbit said.

That’s a sign of the fierce competition among buyers shopping for a first home.

“I’m doing a closing tomorrow with a young couple that we literally wrote, I would guess, seven offers,” Shields said, adding that she’s had clients spend “a year-plus” shopping for a home.

The tight market has shifted and shrunk the normal off-season doldrums for the housing market, which traditionally begin around the time children go back to school. Real estate agents like Shields have been kept busy through recent winters, when — even if the total volume of transactions drops off — there are still plenty of buyers chasing after too few homes.

Her advice to anyone pondering a sale was: “Bring it out.”

“Don’t wait,” Shields said. “It’s not a traditional market.”

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Spring and summer are considered the best times to put your house on the market, but getting a good price in the colder months is possible if you’re willing to put in the extra work.

A current shortage of quality property for sale in Minneapolis makes your odds even better.

Here are 10 tips for making it happen.

1. Ask: Do I need to sell now?

If you want to sell your house quickly and for a good price in fall and winter months, you have to be ready for the challenge.

Samantha Strong, broker and owner of Metamorphosis Realty, said it’s a real estate agent’s job to work in the seller’s best interest.

First consider if selling is the right move, Strong advised.

“Selling a home is stressful, so if it’s unnecessary then let’s not do it,” Strong said.

Arne Johansson, broker and owner of Johansson Reality Inc., said the best time to put your house on the market is between the months of April and July. If you can’t wait to sell, however, you have to be in the right mindset.

“It doesn’t mean you can’t get a good price.

It doesn’t mean there won’t be buyers. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sell your house.

But it’s definitely something to think about,” Johansson said.

2. ‘Work with the best’

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Real estate agents should be experienced, empathetic, available and social media savvy.

“It’s just like anything else — there are good plumbers and there are guys who shouldn’t have a license,” Johansson said. “You have the choice. You don’t have to work with your cousin just because he’s your cousin. You can work with the best, so work with the best.”

Because of all the money, competition and emotion wrapped up in selling a home, real estate agents do more than set up open houses and sign documents.

“You’re paying for the guidance, the resources and the therapy,” Strong said.

3. Work hard Buyers want to feel at home — not like they’re in your home.

In order to stand out, you will have to invest a significant amount of time, energy and even some money getting ready to put your house on the market.

“Don’t underestimate the process. It takes a while. It’s all about the preparation,” Strong said.

“But you’d be surprised by how a little elbow grease goes a long way in this industry.”

4. Clean Cleaning is the best thing you can do to make your house more appealing to buyers.

“You’ve got to clean your house. That is like the No. 1 return on investment,” Johansson said. “If you do anything, clean.

You want your house to kind of be like a hotel room: fresh and clean.”

De-cluttering and depersonalizing are essential, Strong said. One element of this process is eliminating the funk.

“You get used to your house — you walk in and you don’t notice the smell,” Strong said. “It’s all about those visceral reactions. The house should smell fresh, but not overly scented.”

As important as smell is, light is important, too, said Maribel Garcia, a veteran real estate agent with Keller Williams.

“Clean means different things to different people. Clean should mean that you’d be OK moving in,” Garcia said. “And clean the windows. The windows make a huge difference.

If the windows are clean, the house is brighter and seems cleaner.”

5. Get an inspection The city requires a Truth-in-Sale of Housing (TISH) evaluation before you can start showing your house.

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Strong said sellers should get the inspection early on in the process. This gives time to make any necessary fixes, be re-inspected and get a TISH certificate of approval before putting a house on the market.

“Pre-inspection makes the buyer more comfortable,” Strong said. “Plus, a clean certificate of approval from TISH gives the impression that your home is well-maintained.”

If you don’t make repairs required by TISH, the buyer will have to sign an Acknowledgement of Responsibility and complete the repairs within 90 days of closing.

“Buyers are wary, and they don’t want to spend their money on boring things like furnaces,” Strong said. “If people find out there’s something wrong, what do they do? They come back and ask for a price reduction. Beat them to the punch. Get it done.”

If the fix is too expensive or you don’t want to deal with it, you’ll have to adjust your asking price accordingly, Strong said.

6. Fix the small stuff It’s time to get handy and take care of that squeaky door and the pipe that’s leaking in the basement bathroom.

“Your house will never be more done than right before you sell it. All those things you said you were going to do one day — that time is now,” Strong said. “Don’t expect people to adapt to the funky things you’ve adapted to.”

This step is essential, because most buyers are looking for properties that are move-in ready.

“All those tiny items that get put off, those need to be fixed because buyers will see that

7. Get outside

9. Know the market

Don’t forget about curb appeal.

“No one wants to come inside if your yard is junky,” Strong said.

Mow the lawn, weed the garden, paint the fence and put some seasonal plants in pots by the door.

Price your house appropriately.

“If you overprice, it’s not going to sell,” Garcia said. “If you price it right, it’ll sell really quickly.”

Even if you love your home — even if you’ve done everything your real estate agent told you to do to prepare — you have to price your home based on similar properties in your neighborhood that have sold in the month before you list your house, Strong said.

“If you list it too high, you’re not going to get the buyers, the showings, the offers,” Johansson said. “If you list it too low, you might not be able to drive it up.”

It’s important to consider supply and demand. Although there are fewer homes on the market in Minneapolis, there are also fewer people willing to move in the winter.

“Once you put it on the market, your house is no longer a home. It’s a product,” Strong said.

“Do not be greedy, especially if you’re selling in the off-season. It’s not the time.”

Finally, don’t try to sell your house near Thanksgiving or Christmas. It probably won’t work, Strong said.

8. Be picture perfect

Cleaning is key to the appeal of this bathroom. “White tile should be white,” Strong said. The sellers also painted the ceiling a brighter white to reflect more light.

The property received multiple offers within 12 hours. Photo by David J. Turner

stuff, and it probably only costs a couple hundred to fix, but the buyer’s going to want like $1,000 off. It creates doubt in the minds of the buyers, so do anything that eliminates doubt in the mind of the buyer.”

Easy things to do include painting, updating light fixtures, matching all your light bulbs for consistent lighting, updating faucets and rearranging furniture make the best use of space.

Pictures are key to a successful marketing campaign for your house.

“You get one chance to make a first impression. Now, because of how people are looking, that impression is photography online,” Strong said. “You’ve got to get them from the photography to request a showing. Bad photos equates to no showings.”

As great as the iPhone camera is, this is one of those times when it’s worth bringing in a professional, Strong said.

It’s important that the photos are representative of the space. Once the pictures are up, you have to maintain this near-perfection until the property sells, Garcia said.

“If people walk in and the house isn’t as nice as the pictures, they will be disappointed,” Garcia said. “And it needs to be ready and available anytime — you never know when your buyer’s coming.”

Other ways to generate interest in your listing are to include video in your photo gallery, share your gallery online and make your open house an event, Johansson said.

“It’s all about getting people excited about the property,” he said. “We’ve had food trucks at open houses. It gets people in the door. Having 30 people at your open house compared to none makes a big difference.”

10. Don’t freak Sometimes, it takes a while for someone to make an offer.

“Getting an offer is the biggest hurdle. You’ve just got to get an offer, so you’ve got to work hard,” Strong said. “It only takes one buyer.”

But in this market, it shouldn’t take too long to sell.

“If you do all this stuff, you should get multiple offers. And multiple offers is the whole point because it can drive up the price,” Johansson said. “Everybody wants what they can’t have.”

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From cosplay to couture

What was stolen is taken back Dyani White Hawk’s recent abstractions confront the appropriation of native aesthetics

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

KENWOOD — It’s not always as blatant as a Victoria’s Secret model walking the runway in lingerie and a headdress — as Karlie Kloss did, in 2012 — but the fashion industry has for decades plundered American Indian clothing and design for profit, from the geometric patterns of Navajo blankets to the decorative beadwork adorning Plains Indian regalia.

“If our country’s history wasn’t the way it was, it probably wouldn’t be a big deal,” said the artist Dyani White Hawk, who is Sicangu Lakota and an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

White Hawk’s latest paintings, which translate traditional bead- and quillwork designs into paint — or even layer beadwork on top of painted canvas — confront the appropriation of American Indian aesthetics in both fashion and art.

“When it’s one of the last things that feels like ours, then it’s the last slap in the face,” she said.

And so White Hawk takes back. In several of her paintings on display at Bockley Gallery in Kenwood, beadwork stitched in multi-colored lanes drapes over a painted abstract geometric pattern like a curtain. The beadwork is a tweak on tradition — with bigger, chunkier beads

than White Hawk, a dancer who makes her own regalia, would ever use for clothing — and the painted pattern is lifted from a pair of running pants with a pseudo-native design.

“I thought, if I just take that pattern and I steal it back and bring it into my space of value and worth, it’s like biting back,” she said.

The pants pattern, so removed from its original context, is basically visual gobbledygook. Or it was until White Hawk reinserted elements of traditional design into its busy geometry, including the symbols for horse tracks.

“People who are hip to Lakota designs and the meanings behind them will see those, no problem,” she said.

One large, square canvas at Bockley is meticulously covered in thousands of equal-sized, roughly inch-long vertical brushstrokes in various shades of ivory against a background of gold. There is the illusion of iridescence.

“Painting like that, it very much mimics the process of doing beadwork and quillwork in its methodology and rhythm, and it’s kind of meditative,” White Hawk said.

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school, translating a native craft tradition into the language of modern art spoken in museums and galleries. In those places, it is still often not easy to trace the roots of modern art back through its earliest — often white, often male — practitioners to a wellspring of its visual innovations: the indigenous aesthetic traditions of Africa, Asia and the Americas, whose own geniuses typically went unnamed and unrecorded.

“You cannot separate the histories. It’s impossible,” White Hawk said. “We’ve both benefitted off of looking at each other’s creative output.”

By bringing her heritage with her into the gallery, White Hawk makes that fact harder to ignore.

WHITTIER — Full Fashion Panic closes out this month’s Fashion Week Minnesota, a sign of just how far the Minneapolis College of Art and Design-hosted fashion show has come in 13 years.

“In the beginning, it was just some cosplayers walking across a stage,” said MCAD professor Frenchy Lunning, director of the annual Mechademia conference on Asian popular culture, which first included a fashion show in 2004.

Full Fashion Panic is no longer just a catwalk for cosplay, the practice of creating and wearing a costume modeled after a favorite fictional character from video games, comic books or cartoons, a now global subcultural trend that emerged from anime and manga fandom in Japan. These days, the looks coming down the runway are often inspired by Japanese street fashion and cosplay — and even many of the same pop-cultural touchstones that cosplayers pay homage to — but they’re the work of emerging fashion designers who aren’t just playing dress-up.

“This is couture,” Lunning said.

This year’s Full Fashion Panic will feature five capsule collections from Apatico (the fashion line of artist, designer and MCAD graduate Megan Bishop), Salem’s Scissors (run by an Argentinian who now lives in Minneapolis), Kathleen Moua, Maria Dang and Lucie Biros. The designers were asked to respond to the theme of this year’s conference, worldbuilding, suggesting the individual looks will be embedded in a larger fantasy narrative.

FULL FASHION PANIC When: 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Sept. 25 Where: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Ave. S. Info: 874-3700, mcad.edu. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

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Overwintering plants indoors and seed sharing

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s summer comes to an end, it’s tempting to bring tropical plants indoors for the winter. It’s not a bad idea, but as you probably already know, some of them don’t do so well in our cool, dry houses for months on end. The key is to offer the right amount of care, which sometimes means a lack of care, depending on the plant.

If you want to try to keep tropicals alive so you can bring them outdoors again in the spring, there are three ways to do it: • Bring the plant in and let it just keep on growing in a warm sunny spot.

• Put the plant in a cool, dark place and let it go dormant.

• Take cuttings from plants you like, root them and pot them up so you can enjoy those new plants in the spring.

Going with option one means you need to have a sunny window where temperatures are between 60 and 75 degrees during the day and not below 45 at night. Jasmine, hibiscus, bougainvillea and small citrus trees are just a few of the plants that can survive the winter this way. If you don’t have that sort of sunny spot, you can always put plants under fluorescent lights or grow lights, but make sure you set a timer so they get about 12 hours of light daily.

If plants grow enough to get leggy, prune them back at least once. And don’t worry about a few dropped and/or yellowed leaves because that’s bound to happen, particularly right after you brings plants indoors.

Water as needed, but don’t fertilize plants until spring. And be sure to inspect plants regularly for pests. If you find some, they can usually be controlled by plopping the plants in the sink or shower and giving them a good blast with water.

Letting plants go dormant takes more of an understanding of plants’ individual needs. Good information on that can be found in the book “Bulbs in the Basement Geraniums on the Windowsill: How to Grow & Overwinter 165 Tender Plants” by Alice and Brian McGowan. Basically, it all depends on whether the plants are woody, soft-stemmed or bulb-like. For example, elephant ears and caladiums should get a little bit frost-nipped before they come inside so they understand that the season is over and it’s time to go dormant. They can be stored in a cool, dark place right in their

Hibiscus is just one of many tropical plans that can overwinter indoors.

pots, and your job is to keep the soil slightly moist until spring. Or, you can take them out of their pots, remove the stems and foliage and store only the bulbs. Read up on how to do that: Everyone seems to have a way they like to do it.

Taking cuttings from plants that are difficult to overwinter, like coleus and geraniums, is easier than it sounds. If you’re going to do this, take the cuttings in the fall and toss the main plant (sometimes called the “mother” plant) in the compost bin.

Instructions for taking cuttings and rooting them can be found in books, online and of course there are YouTube videos.

Seed Sharing As always, the Little Free Seed Library at my house is open for fall use. The library is located on the boulevard on the corner of 45th & Washburn in Linden Hills. (For more information and photos, check out this blog post from a couple of years ago: everydaygardener.com/ sharing-seeds/.)

If you bring seeds to share, please bring them in envelopes or baggies labeled with the name of the plant. One type of seed per container, please.

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Setting the standard for green schools

By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

Edison High School student Peter Biros helped design and install a community garden his freshman year of high school.

“Our campus is now a big deal. Our campus is now sustainable — the top in the state” Biros said. “Schools should be green, as an example to the community, and Edison is leading the way.”

Biros, now a sophomore, participated in a class and summer internship working on the community garden for the school and the Holland neighborhood as part of a larger effort to go green.

Minneapolis Public Schools said Edison is the first green campus in the state.

The new eco-friendly high school is the result of community partners — including Spark-Y, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, the school board, the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association and the City Council — coming together to make the space an arts, education and innovation hotspot.

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 9, the school unveiled several storm water management systems that make up the outdoor environmental laboratory for the neighborhood’s learning community.

New campus systems include the community garden, greenhouse, tree trench, permeable pavement, storm water storage tanks and a rain garden. The infrastructure is projected to capture and treat about 1.5 million gallons of runoff that would have otherwise drained untreated to the Mississippi River.

A sprinkler system connected to the storage tanks will be used to water the school’s football field.

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Peter Biros, a sophomore at Edison, cuts the ribbon, flanked by classmates and community leaders involved in the green campus project. Photo by James Healy.

tion, said Edison’s sustainability efforts would certainly impact the health of the Mississippi.

“We hope people will understand that what you do for your land has a direct impact on your water resources,” Snyder said. “We want to make sure the water that gets to those water resources are as clean as possible.”

Synder said his hope is that the green campus will instill the importance of water management early on for students, and serve as tool for the neighborhood.

“The idea would be that some of these homeowners learn something and take the messages back to their homes,” he said. “Maybe they would get a rain barrel or plant a rain garden.”

Jenny Arneson, the chair of the Minneapolis Board of Education, has twin sons who participated in the community garden project.

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collective vision,” Arneson said. “Our neighborhood is better served because we’ve managed to come together. The school is the center of the neighborhood, and it’s an important center to the neighborhood.”

Superintendent Ed Graff applauded the school’s sustainability and emphasized the educational benefit of the campus transformation in his speech at the ribbon cutting ceremony.

“This is about innovation,” Graff said. “It’s about inspiring young people to think beyond what those possibilities or those limits are and really see that through some hard work, some ingenuity and a lot of perseverance that we can create a much better place for ourselves in the community and the environment.”

Zach Robinson, executive director of Spark-Y, a nonprofit that facilitates actionoriented labs focused on sustainability and

entrepreneurship, is an advocate for shifting the education paradigm from classwork and rote memorization to hands-on learning. Spark-Y facilitated the curriculum for students working on the community garden.

“We’re saying: Get ready. Everything we do is real. Everything matters. This is where your food is coming from, where your energy is coming from,” Robinson said. “We tell them: You do this class and you’re going to have a job, you’re going to have a future.”

The community garden class and internship is an example of that work in action, Robinson said.

“With Spark-Y classes, students are actively engaging, learning and building the green campus,” Biros said. “This makes our education applicable in the world, and, I’ll be honest, it makes our education really fun and engaging.

So, also, Edison is leading the way in education.”

This is not the end of Edison’s work on the green campus. Soon a solar canopy will be installed, offsetting the school’s electricity needs by about 40 percent.

Adelheid Koski spoke at the ribbon cutting on behalf of the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association. She said the project is about social sustainability as much as it is about environmental sustainability.

“In the end — what this project is about to the neighborhood — it’s all about relationships,” Koski said. “This hits on the three levels: the art, the energy and the innovation. Energy is not just about the environment and sustainability; it’s about momentum, it’s about the path and it’s about the way forward.”

Community partners hope to continue investing in the campus, Jenny Arneson said.

“We’re always dreaming.”

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By Linda Koutsky

At Mercury Mosaics it’s hip to be square

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hey actually do make those little square tiles typical on floors for hundreds of years, but Mercury Mosaics pushes the edge of tile design with their distinctive, unusual shapes and freeform patterns.

Floors, walls, fireplaces, counters, shower surrounds, custom table tops and threedimensional undulating storefronts have been covered with their tiles in the shapes of fish scales, honeycombs, diamonds, hourglasse, and floating bubbles. Even their subway tile is nontraditional with round holes punched out to accept inserted colored accents or a wavy top edge that allows for a confetti-like border. The options are endless!

Mercury Mosaics began in 2004 when studio owner Mercedes Austin’s business grew out of her apartment and reopened as Mercury Mosaics. Now she’s assisted by 20 “Tile Elves” who help make the nationally known indoor and outdoor tiles.

Several creative artisans work in the wideopen studio. Bags of clay are opened, rolled out flat, cut into shapes, stamped, dried, glazed and then baked in 2000-degree kilns.

Each job is unique and takes a variety of skills and talent to success. The artisans take pride in their work and must have a lot of fun, too, because even their job titles show a sense of whimsy: Glaze Goddess, Queen of

TILE PROJECTS Mercury Mosaics has made tile projects for Google, Starbucks and Warner Brothers, as well as for many local homes and restaurants. Here’s a partial list of public projects they’ve done in the metro area: • Bachelor Farmer Cafe • Whole Foods • Barrio • lululemon • Marin • Mojo Monkey Donuts • People’s Organic

An interior designer picks a color palette for tiles. Photo by Linda Koutsky

the Kilns, Mayor of Sampletown, Creative Design Sidekick. Three official Studio Dogs patrol the workshop as security detail.

House Blends are favorite groupings of colors from the 135 glaze colors they have available. If that wasn’t enough choice, some glazes offer a thick, solid covering, while others are more transparent or include flecks of other colors or have a watercolorlike wash of two colors. Embossed textures in the tile surface such as stripes, swirls, pine needles, twigs and geometric patterns offer more options to make each project unique. There are vast choices to make, and it helps to have professional advice.

Mercury Mosaics works with designers or they can design for customers in-house. No job is too small. They also offer classes so people can experience the joy of tile work themselves.

Check their website at mercurymosaics. com for upcoming classes. Looking for local gifts? Mercury Mosaics sells cute ceramic magnets in the shape of Minnesota.

MERCURY MOSAICS Located in the artist-filled Casket Arts building in Northeast Minneapolis (681 17th Ave. NE, #160), Mercury Mosaics is usually open by appointment only but will host visitors during Open Casket, the building’s annual fall open studios event: 5 p.m.–10 p.m. Oct. 7 noon–8 p.m. Oct. 8 noon–5 p.m. Oct. 9 Examples of Mercury Mosaics’ many tile options. Photos by Linda Koutsky

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By Alexandra Cortes

A day at Fulton Farmers Market

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aturday, 6:45 a.m. I pull into the parking lot of the Lake Harriet Methodist Church where our Fulton Farmers Market is held, waving to Lue of Yer Yang’s Produce and Moses of Dawn2Dusk Farm as I pass their parked trucks on the street. They wait patiently for the “go” signal from staff indicating that they can begin their set-up.

After Rebecca, our market manager, opens up our storage shed and breaker box, we huddle with our assistant market manager, Jess, to check in about last minute changes in vendor stall locations.

weekend, and together we start carting our six market tents, 16 tables and 65-plus chairs across the parking lot while our vendors trickle in.

8:20 a.m.

With vendors set up and our own market tents and tables in place, Todd and Christine each pick up a “Fulton Farmers Market / Open Today” sandwich board and coordinate which corners they’ll head to on 50th Street. Jess sets up our EBT and credit card readers, and we are officially open.

9:25 a.m.

7:00 a.m.

Todd cruises up on his bike, followed soon afterwards this morning by Christine. Now our Neighborhood Roots organization’s board chair, Todd has his hands plenty full with other market matters, yet he helps out with Saturday morning setup almost weekly. He calls it “addicting,” and often he’ll call his wife Lisa during a pause in our setup to coordinate their grocery list. “Hey hon, do we need bacon? I could pick up some tomatoes, too, and we could make BLTs to finish off our bread...”

A summer of family trips and kids off from school means that Christine has been volunteering perhaps once a month for morning setup.

We have been an ongoing recipient of her volunteer efforts for years, and we are grateful for her and a mix of others’ setup and teardown help on a variety of different schedules.

We chat about their other plans for the

I spot Marsha weaving her way through the market with toddler Dalton in tow, letting kids and parents know that story time will be beginning shortly. Her husband, Doug, is the designated reader today. For three seasons, now, they’ve been volunteering to host Fulton’s story time and showing up to the market with an everchanging selection of books, ready to read to a captive audience.

10 a.m.

Nordis arrives, ready to prep samples of market products. Realtor Kamie Augustine of the Augustine Team, a sustaining market sponsor, is leading our kids craft for the day so Nordis has offered to serve up a “Taste of the Market” alongside them. As a member of our Fulton Operations Committee, Nordis meets monthly with Rebecca and a mix of board members and

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other volunteer committee members to offer input on our vendor selection, activities and outreach. We decide on samples of Sun Street bread with goat cheese from Singing Hills Dairy, and she sets about prepping bites and chatting with market-goers about recipe ideas.

as we start to break down the chairs and tables.

Megan helps out alternately with setup and teardown, while Brett serves on our Marketing & Development Committee. We pack up our storage shed and they head out, each with a handful of potatoes and peppers that Thao Farm has generously offered us.

12:10 p.m.

Sasha, our board vice-chair, stops by the market on her way home from the park with her girls.

Our monthly board meeting is coming up, so I catch her up on the latest with our market bookkeeper transition and the updated insurance quote we recently received before she continues her rounds with the stroller.

12:55 p.m.

Brett and Megan arrive for teardown and are curious to know how the market day has gone

2:15 p.m.

Rebecca and I stash an extra cooler and our electrical cords in our cars before we say goodbye to Jess and head off in separate directions.

Tomorrow, Sunday, is our Kingfield Market, and we’ll be doing it all again before long.

Alexandra Cortes is the Executive Director of Neighborhood Roots. She has been growing with the markets since 2011.

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Attainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Looking from the light into the dark “The universe is a memory-filled world of constant and enduring interconnection — a world where everything … acts on and interacts with everything else.”

— Ervin Laszlo, “Science and the Akashic Field”

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n a recent Wednesday night, 15 of us sat under the vortex of the Lake Harriet Spiritual Center dome and had a conversation about dark matter and dark energy led by a political science graduate. For 45 minutes, the assortment of us — none of who to my knowledge had any particular scientific career — learned in layman’s terms what we could about the mysterious force and energy that makes up 95 percent of the universe.

And then we sought to apply the comprehension of that to our lives.

There can be a “hippy-dippy-ness” to any discussion that has the word “consciousness” in it when the word isn’t simply referring to neurons doing their dance inside our brain matter. For many of us, consciousness is a practical matter: coming out of dreamland or anesthesia, helping us remember childhood stories, giving us a particular angle on the upcoming election, storing away details like which streets to take without relying on Siri’s voice to guide us.

But consciousness, to those of us who have been meeting for a few years as part of an Institute of Noetic Sciences chapter group in Linden Hills, is more than what our brains help us think and perceive. It is also what we don’t perceive, due to the limitations of our brain, but might subtly be aware of.

An Invisible Essential Element Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. On his way home, he felt an ecstatic moment of transcendence — he experienced the universe, in a matter of moments, as having an intelligence and purposefulness. It transformed his decades-long career as a hardcore scientist and led to his founding of IONS more than 40 years ago to explore what we don’t know about consciousness.

I had the pleasure of hearing from Edgar Mitchell, before his death earlier this year, about a website I was developing called ConnectedintheDeep.com — a sandbox for conversations I was having with brilliant scientists and philosophers about consciousness from a quantum to cosmic level. He was impressed with the website and wrote, “It seems you are seeing, reading about and working with all the important ideas that have emerged and are still emerging to help science and scientists understand that ‘awareness’ (the ground state for consciousness) is the third attribute in all of nature, along with matter and energy.”

Awareness. We can’t measure it or see it in a magnification lens. It might be more of a cloud of invisible atoms that makes up 4 percent of the universe rather than a wave of energy or a particle of matter. But as we learned from avid learner Patrick King at the September IONS MN discussion circle in Linden Hills, there is an entire universe made up primarily of things we don’t understand.

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Seeing Into the Dark Dark energy — which scientists have determined is roughly 70 percent of the universe — seems to be responsible for blowing up the space of space like a balloon. Dark matter — just as finite as visible matter is, but much more abundant — makes up 25 percent of the universe.

That means that 5 percent of the universe is made up of things we roughly know about: 4 percent is invisible atoms (think of it as the empty space in a window screen that keeps your

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That makes us feel insignificant as a species, yes. In awe when we take the time to look into the sky. But that also means, individually and collectively, that we’re made out of the rarest materials in the universe.

And that’s why, for one night per month, our IONS merge together — outside the realms of kid activities and work responsibilities and retirement explorations — and we wonder what we might be capable of attaining from the perspective of the universe’s eye.

We humans are 0.01 percent of what our universe actually is. More of us are trying to look beyond what gets our attention in the light to what might be hiding underneath.

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Get Out Guide.

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVAL Local Arab Arts organization Mizna is putting on a four-day film festival with feature flicks, documentaries and shorts from Arab and Arab American filmmakers hailing from more than 15 countries.

Coming-of-age film “As I Open My Eyes,” which launches the fest on Thursday, Sept. 29, from director Leyla Bouzid tells the story of a young Tunisian musician struggling with love, family and community on the eve of the Arab Spring. Closing the weekend is “Before the Summer Crowds” from late Egyptian director Mohamed Khan, which offers a light-hearted critique of disparities in Egypt through a woman’s vacation in Alexandria.

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE When: Sept. 29–Oct. 2 Cost: $8–$10 per film, $40 festival pass Info: mizna.org/arabfilmfest

TWIN CITIES MARATHON The Twin Cities hosts a Top 10 U.S. marathon each year and it’s a perfect time to get outdoors, get your own exercise or support friends and family running a race. Thousands of runners will face the 26.1-mile race with even more volunteers, staff and residents cheering them on, so for non-runners, it will be a great day to get out and explore the Twin Cities. Even if you’re not running the big race, there are plenty of related events to enjoy around the Twin Cities, including a Health & Fitness Expo (Oct. 7–8) and a runner’s feast pasta party (Saturday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m.) at the River Centre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.

NORTH LOOP FALL FASHION CRAWL The North Loop may be downtown’s retail capital with fashion-forward retailers like MartinPatrick3 and Roe Wolf Boutique.

The neighborhood will get a fall fashion crawl during Fashion Week MN with pop-up shops from local designers at more than a dozen boutiques. Participating retailers include Statement Minneapolis, C’est Chic Boutique, Grethen House, Wilson & Willy’s, Shoesters, Pacifier, D.NOLO, Ribnick Furs, Kit and Ace, Chrome, Roe Wolfe, MartinPatrick3 and Lolë.

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BEER-BUSTING HARVEST PARTIES INDEED’S HULLABALOO Indeed Brewing is hosting its annual Hullabaloo with two days worth of music curated by First Avenue, local eats and the return of the brewery’s Yamma Jamma.

The cash-only party will have performances from local bands like Night Moves, Actual Wolf, Southside Desire and others from 12:30 p.m.–9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8 and 1 p.m.–6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9. Indeed fans will have the opportunity to try the year’s release of Rum King and the brewery’s beloved fall-inspired Yamma Jamma. Blue Door Pub, Aki’s BreadHaus and Frio Frio will cover food with blucy burgers, beer snacks and popsicles.

CO-OPTOBERFEST Northeast’s own Fair State Brewing Co-op is throwing its biggest party of the year: Co-Optoberfest. The Oktoberfest-style party will feature accordion and oompah music (5 p.m.–10p.m.), live screen-printing (2 p.m.–8 p.m.) and food from Gerhard’s Brats and Aki’s BreadHaus. For beer, the fest has it all, including Fair State’s Festbier, a traditional Oktoberfest-style Marzen lager, and much, much more.

Where: Indeed Brewing Company, 711 15th Ave. NE When: Oct. 8–9 at noon Cost: Free Info: indeedbrewing.com

Where: Fair State Brewing Cooperative, 2506 Central Ave. NE When: Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m.

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SURLYFEST Southeast Minneapolis’ destination brewery is once again getting a German twist with SurlyFest. The 11-hour day consists of Deutsch-inspired food, Surly beer and live music. And while you don’t need a ticket to enter, a $30 ticket guarantees entry if Surly hits capacity and gets you a commemorative glass beer stein, four refills and a voucher for food. The brewery’s restaurant, Brewer’s Table, will be offering a German menu alongside its regular cuisine on Saturday, Sept. 24.

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SCHWANDTOBERFEST Don your lederhosen and get thirsty because Bauhaus Brew Labs is bringing back its annual Schwandtoberfest. For food, the fest will feature brats from Gerhard’s Brats, sliders and potato salad from Black Forest Inn, pretzels from Aki’s BreadHaus and potato pancakes from Burbach’s European Pancakes.

For festivities, Bauhaus is bringing the Brass Barn Polka Band for a little traditional music, Nightlights playing their ‘90s R&B and Viva Knievel. Advance tickets come with a 23-ounce Bavarian keeper stein and three fills. Plus, there will be prizes for the best lederhosen.

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