Featured Stories

Hank and His Bus: Catalysts for Changing Architectural Education?

Camille LeFevre Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Green Jobs, Higher Education, Reuse / Rebuild, Talent Dividend, Transportation

University, Northeast

Made in Minnesota: The Makers Coalition and the Renewal of Our Industrial Sewing Heritage

Anna Pratt Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Makers Coalition is supporting a new generation of industrial sewers and the local makers movement. The coalition brings together 60 businesses, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and service providers to fulfill its mission: To bring back industrial sewing skills, which largely disappeared in America decades ago.

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design, Strong Local Economy

Downtown, Uptown/Lyn Lake, West Seventh, Downtown/Lowertown, Northeast

David Graham at Gold Medal Park and Zenith Condos

Q+A: David Graham, the city building architect, and his ecosystem approach to density

Camille LeFevre Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Affordable Housing, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design, Reuse / Rebuild, Strong Local Economy, Sustainability, Transit Oriented Development, Transportation

Riverfront/Mill District, Downtown, Uptown/Lyn Lake, Northeast

City Art: New thinking about public art in Saint Paul is transforming the public sphere

Christine Podas-Larson Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Arts and Culture, Central Corridor, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Leadership, Design, diversity, Sustainability, Transit Oriented Development, Transportation

Saint Anthony Park, Downtown/Lowertown, Thomas - Dale/Frogtown, Payne - Phalen

Throughout the U.S., Public Art Engages Communities and Transforms Neighborhoods

Elaine Labalme Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Public art has evolved into an essential element of urban placemaking and social engagement. From murals on vacant buidlings to art in laundormats to temporary art installations that invite public participation, we take a look at public art and how it's changing cities.

Arts and Culture, Central Corridor, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Leadership, Design, diversity, Regionalism, Strong Local Economy, Transit Oriented Development, Transportation

Downtown/Lowertown, Thomas - Dale/Frogtown

A Party to Raise Consciousness About the Congo's Suffering

Jon Spayde Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Coordination/Collaboration, Philanthropy

Midway

Creative Placemaking: Reframing How We See Cities

Sheena Lyonnais Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design, Entrepreneurship, Reuse / Rebuild, Strong Local Economy

West Seventh

Twin Cities Parks 3.0: Bold New Initiatives Coming to Our Green Spaces

Susan Klemond Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Get ready for some changes in our already-stellar park system that will expand your ideas about recreation, ecology, and economic development.

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Leadership, Design, Regionalism, Sustainability

Riverfront/Mill District, Downtown, Southwest, North Side, West Seventh, Calhoun - Isles, Northeast

Art and Business Connect at a "Pop-Up Think Tank"

Jon Spayde Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, diversity, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy

Downtown

Ivey Awards Founder Scott Mayer: Let's Make the Most of Our Theater Power

Jon Spayde Wednesday, July 24, 2013

In a Q and A with The Line, marketer and theater maven Mayer asks: with nearly eighty professional theater companies in town, why don't we do more to promote theater as an attraction that sets the Twin Cities apart?

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Strong Local Economy

The Twin Cities' Openness Problem

Jay Walljasper Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, diversity, Strong Local Economy

These entrepreneurs chose the Green Line

Elizabeth Millard Wednesday, June 19, 2013

It's been an article of faith since Central Corridor light rail (Green Line) construction began that, despite all the disruption and traffic chaos of the building stage, the line would eventually become a magnet for local entrepreneurs. That scenario appears to be playing out; here are three entrepreneurial ventures that were lured to the line by light rail's promise.

Central Corridor, Coordination/Collaboration, diversity, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Strong Local Economy, Transportation

Midway, Saint Anthony Park, Thomas - Dale/Frogtown, Summit - University

A New York Street Happening--photo by Ethan Kent

The Top Five Tips for Creating Great Urban Places

Project for Public Spaces Wednesday, June 19, 2013

"If urban planning is musical composition, then placemaking is improvisational street performance." Five tested tips for doing the much-talked-about, rarely defined, improvisational, street-level, people-oriented form of urban design that's rapidly replacing the old top-down paradigm in the Twin Cities and across the country.

Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design

The Board onstage. From left, Molly Chase, Nels Lennes, Jill Bernard, and Butch Roy

Minnesota's funniest nonprofit board

Julie Kendrick Wednesday, June 12, 2013

If you're on the board of directors of HUGE Theater in Minneapolis, you have to improvise. That is, you have to actually go onstage and do improv in a three-evening run that is also an official series of board meetings.

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Uptown/Lyn Lake

A Line or Two: A Nighttime Labyrinth, a Pop-Up Festival

Jon Spayde Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Your editor helps run a meditative labyrinth-walking project amid the cheerful madness of the Northern Spark one-night, all-night arts festival--and points out another cool artfest that's ongoing.

Arts and Culture, Coordination/Collaboration, Creative Economy, Creative Leadership, Design, Nightlife

Downtown/Lowertown

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