Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Comments Due Friday May 22 on the Draft Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan

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The public comment period for the draft Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan will close this Friday, May 22nd. The 10-year action plan will guide future planning, design and implementation of transportation projects for all people in all the ways they move around.

Provide your input and feedback on our interactive website

Check out the Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan website to learn more and provide feedback at go.minneapolismn.gov. The interactive website includes opportunities to provide your input on the plan – including draft strategies and actions and priority networks.

Watch a recording of our online open houses

At three online open houses staff presented highlights of the Transportation Action Plan and answered questions from the audience in real time. Our online engagement events have concluded but you can still watch recordings of them on our website at go.minneapolismn.gov/get-involved. 

MnDOT Virtual 35W Tour

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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has created activities for you to share with your community as we all stay at home.

Neighbors, teachers and kids can explore the 35W@94 project corridor through a virtual self-guided tour to learn about the history of I-35W, project benefits and construction features including the huge red water storage tanks being constructed under the road. Be sure to check out the drone flight over the freeway and download the activity book! Start exploring today: Virtual Self-Guided Tour

 Interpreting 35W in South Minneapolis Through Art, an online historical tour

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View the history at “https://z.umn.edu/historyof35W“

By exploring the history of 35W in South Minneapolis this visual Story Map guides you through the city’s process of building the freeway, the disastrous effects of construction on the surrounding neighborhoods, the impacts and long term effects still felt today, and concludes by encouraging you to submit a creative response to the history. Creative responses can be a drawing, a poem, a shared personal story, or whatever you feel interested in sharing – no prior artistic experience is required and all skill levels are encouraged.

Through this project we can begin to examine the history of the built environments around us, as well as imagine not only what a freeway gives through convenience, but takes away from community and neighborhoods. This project pushes back against the idea that there was no community opposition to 35W, that no one has been impacted, and that the city’s initial assessment of “no functional neighborhood” in the freeway corridor was, and is, absolutely false.

View the history at “https://z.umn.edu/historyof35W“. If you have any questions please contact Tyler McDaniel at mcdan127@umn.edu.

35W Construction Updates

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I-35W@94 http://www.dot.state.mn.us/35w94/

  • The ramp from I-35W south to 46th St. is closed 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily; through Friday, April 24
  • NEW The right lane of I-35W north is closed 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily between 35th and 28th streets Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1.
  • UPDATE I-35W in both directions is closed between Hwy 62 and I-94 from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly Monday, May 4 through Friday, May 8.
  • NEW The right lane of I-35W north is closed 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily between 35th and 28th streets Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1.
  • The ramp from Fourth Avenue/10th Street to I-35W south is closed through mid-summer.
  • The ramp from I-35W north to Fifth Avenue is closed through mid-summer. The ramp to 11th Street and East Grant Street remains open.

All closures are weather permitting and subject to change.

Grand Avenue Reconstruction Project Draft Concept Design

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To keep community members informed and to continue to advance the project, the City of Minneapolis project team has recorded a narrated slide show to present the draft conceptual design and address frequently asked questions, which is posted at: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/cip/futureprojects/grand-ave-s.

A direct link to the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kpNOU0zEY&feature=youtu.be

Kingfield Restaurants

currently open for take-out
(more info available here)

  • Tap Society
  • Sunstreet Breads
  • Royal Grounds
  • Rincon 38
  • Revival
  • Patisserie 46
  • Nighthawks
  • The Lowbrow
  • Hola Arepa
  • Grand Cafe
  • Good Times Pizza
  • Five Watt Coffee
  • Young Man
  • Dave The Pie Guy
  • Curran's
  • Cocina Latina
  • Cafe Ena
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Boludo Empanadas
  • Apoy