A Downtown dog daycare, training and boarding center is expanding to Southwest Minneapolis this fall. City Paws Pet Club plans to open its second location off Excelsior Boulevard in West Maka Ska this October, taking over the space formerly occupied by multiple shops, including Moss Envy and Indu

For mail carriers in Minneapolis, neither snow, nor rain, nor pandemic, nor politics, nor burned stations can stay the couriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds. But they say it’s been a stressful year.  “As long as they see us every day, they can feel like some normalcy is going o

A longstanding Minnesota brand has opened up shop in Linden Hills. Faribault Woolen Mill now has a retail shop in Southwest Minneapolis, in the former CircleRock space at 44th & Beard. Faribault Woolen Mill has been weaving a range of quality wool products in the same southern Minnesota fa

A client’s cat became sick one recent Sunday. She called five local veterinary emergency clinics but none were able to see her. COVID has taxed the veterinary industry in a way we haven’t seen before. In a short amount of time, the pandemic created the perfect storm of too many animals needing he

My paternal grandmother, Ann, was more comfortable in the woods than anywhere. Nearly every photo I have of her shows her walking on a dirt road in the woods of northern Minnesota, most likely wearing a plaid jacket she picked up at Bemidji Woolen Mills. “Wild Wings,” the log cabin they built high a

When it came to designing the artistic elements of the new pedestrian bridge over Interstate 35W at East 40th Street, Seitu Jones didn’t have to be taught what the freeway destroyed. “I grew up around freeway construction, and freeway disruption as well,” said Jones, who was raised within blocks

As businesses and community organizations have moved quickly in recent weeks to remove “Calhoun” from their names, some may be thinking about a name that connects with Bde Maka Ska. It has always been the water that has drawn people to the area — centuries of Indigenous people and then, in the last

The owners of Bryn Mawr Market never expected a robbery in the middle of the day. “A man came in when my 18-year-old employee was working,” said co-owner Paul Anderson. “He walked in, pulled a gun, cocked it and said give me money.” “I got very startled, because who robs someone at 1:30 in the

Whether strolling through a picturesque neighborhood, browsing the web for home improvement inspiration or paging through old issues of a favorite architectural magazine, “bringing the outdoors in” has been and continues to be a pervasive theme. It’s an increasingly important one as the pandemic wil

I read with great interest the story on page A1 of the Aug. 20 issue about Randolph Street Realty Capital and its shenanigans in Lowry Hill East. The developer and Michael Feddersen seem to have worked out a mutually advantageous deal — never mind the families who were tossed out of their homes with