Metro (Minnesota)

Sharing and Caring Hands is a Minneapolis non-profit drop-in center dedicated to providing food, shelter, and clothing to the unhoused population of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, United States. As of 2020, Sharing and Caring Hands was feeding about 700 to 800 persons daily. Mary's Place, a transitional housing complex, was opened in 1995.

The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center also called HERC is a waste-to-energy plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Following changes to state law in 1980 that prioritized incinerating garbage over directly filling landfills, HERC was developed and began generating electricity in 1989. Located in the North Loop neighborhood near Target Field, the facility replaced a Greyhound Lines bus maintenance facility. The facility which is owned by Hennepin County, collects almost half of all waste generated in the county. Operation of the facility has been controversial with proposals to burn more trash or close the facility both proposed since 2009. Proposals to burn more trash cite the need to deal with an increasing amount of trash generated and to avoid filling landfills as quickly while proposals to close the facility cite the pollution generated and impact on surrounding neighborhoods. In 2023 the Minnesota state legislature required 100% of electricity in the state to be generated by green energy by 2040 and reclassified waste-to-energy power generation as no longer being considered green. The Hennepin County board voted to develop a plan to close the facility between 2028 and 2040 with activists advocating for an earlier closure.

Cameron Transfer and Storage Company Building is a four-story warehouse building in the North Loop area of Minneapolis. The building illustrates the different structural systems and shows the evolution from timber post-and-beam framing to the mushroom capital posts used in more contemporary building. It was designed by C.A.P. Turner and built in three phases between 1909 and 1911. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The first section of the building, built in 1909, has a basement with reinforced concrete and mushroom-capital columns. The first through third floors of the 1909 section has a timber post-and-beam structural system where the timbers bear down on the masonry exterior walls. The wooden beams measure 12 inches (300 mm) by 11.5 inches (290 mm) on the first floor, gradually decreasing on upper floors to 10 inches (250 mm) by 8 inches (200 mm) on the fourth floor. The interior bay dimensions between posts are 16 feet (4.9 m) by 14 feet (4.3 m). In 1910, a four-story addition was built on the north side, with a reinforced concrete structure and mushroom-capital columns in the basement and on the first through fourth floors. The concrete columns measure 23 inches (580 mm) in diameter on the first floor, gradually decreasing on upper floors to 15 inches (380 mm) in diameter on the fourth floor. The interior bay dimensions between posts are 17 feet (5.2 m) by 18 feet (5.5 m). In 1911, a fourth story was added to the 1909 section using the same post-and-beam system used on the lower three floors. C.A.P. Turner got his start with reinforced concrete while employed as a bridge engineer between 1890 and 1901. In 1904, Turner designed the Northwestern Knitting Company Factory with a traditional concrete beam system. The following year, he designed the Minneapolis Paper Company Building (no longer in existence) at 400-404 South Fifth Street. He published the results of load tests in the 1906 edition of Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers and used those results to fine-tune his knowledge of reinforced concrete. Although Robert Maillart of Switzerland was credited as the inventor of the mushroom-capital system, C.A.P. Turner was recognized as having independently designed the system in the United States. He was awarded patents for the mushroom-capital system in 1911, and this system increased useable building space and decreased the cost of construction. Without the need for beams on top of posts, overall building height could be decreased even with the same floor heights. The city of Minneapolis building department was skeptical of mushroom-capital and flat-slab construction, though. In 1906, he designed the Johnson-Bovey Building (no longer in existence) at 426-432 Second Avenue North. The building department refused to grant a permit unless the construction could withstand a test load of 700 pounds (320 kg) per 1 square foot (0.093 m2) with a maximum deflection of 0.625 inches (15.9 mm) at the center of the slab. When tested, the slab showed only 0.25 inches (6.4 mm) of deflection. Later that year, Turner designed the Marshall Building in Milwaukee, which is the oldest existing example of his mushroom system. In 2015, Schafer Richardson announced a plan to convert the building into 44 units of affordable rental housing, with studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments. The building had been slated to be torn down, and Schafer Richardson even had a demolition permit, but that plan was scrapped when it was discovered that the building might be the oldest building in Minneapolis designed by C.A.P. Turner. The building was renovated with a new roof, new windows, and tuckpointing. The affordability targets were for people who earned 50 to 60 percent of the area's median income. The building was fully restored and occupied in August 2016.

Fulton Beer is a microbrewery based in the North Loop area of Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The company was founded in 2009 by Ryan Petz, Jim Diley, Brian Hoffman and Peter Grande, who had been homebrewing for several years out of a garage in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis. The company has also said that early 19th century American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton was the inspiration for the namesake of the brand.

Royalston Avenue/Farmers Market Station is one of five light rail stations planned in Minneapolis on the Southwest LRT extension of the Green Line. The Royalston Avenue/Farmers Market Station will be near the Minneapolis Farmers Market, the Hennepin Theater District, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, the Minneapolis campus for University of St. Thomas which includes the University of St. Thomas School of Law. The station is positioned east of I-94 and north of I-394.

Target Field is a baseball stadium in the historic warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis. Since its opening in 2010, the stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins. The stadium hosted the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It also has also served as the home of other local and regional baseball events. The ballpark is open-air; though originally designed for baseball, it has also hosted football, soccer, hockey games, and concerts. In 2010, ESPN The Magazine ranked Target Field as the number one baseball stadium experience in North America.

Target Field Station (formerly known during construction under the names of Minneapolis Intermodal Station, Downtown Minneapolis Ballpark station and The Interchange) is a multimodal commuter train and light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Located in the North Loop area of Downtown Minneapolis, the station is named for Target Field, the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium. METRO Blue Line light rail service started November 14, 2009; Northstar Line commuter rail service started November 16, 2009; METRO Green Line light rail service started on June 14, 2014.

The North Loop, also commonly called The Warehouse District, is a neighborhood of the Central community of Minneapolis, Minnesota that was Minneapolis’s main commercial district during the city's years as a midwestern shipping hub. Although only a little commercial shipping is still done in the neighborhood, the historic warehouses still dominate the neighborhood. Some of these buildings have been repurposed into restaurants, shops, and apartments. Because of this identity, the neighborhood is commonly known as the Warehouse District. It includes the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The North Loop is located northwest of the central business district between downtown Minneapolis and the Mississippi River. Streets in the North Loop are oriented to be parallel to the river, which means that they run at a 45-degree angle relative to the grid of the rest of the city. Although the neighborhood technically extends further to the south, the main residential and commercial area of the North Loop is roughly a rectangle bounded by the railroad tracks as Cedar Lake Trail (in the southeast), Plymouth Avenue (in the northwest), the elevated 4th street freeway entrance/exit in the southwest, and the Mississippi River in the northeast. Washington Avenue is the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood. The James I. Rice Park, which is in the northeast portion of the neighborhood along the river, is popular with residents during the summer months. The bike trail and West River Parkway that runs through the park are part of the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway. The park added a playground in 2010 located where 4th Ave North intersects with West River Parkway.

Washington Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Starting north of Lowry Avenue, North Washington Avenue runs straight south, with Interstate 94 running alongside it until just south of West Broadway, when the freeway turns to the west. The street continues running straight until just south of Plymouth Avenue, where it turns in a southeasterly direction heading for Downtown Minneapolis. It forms the main thoroughfare through the Warehouse District. The scenery changes at Hennepin Avenue, where the designation changes to South Washington Avenue. This area, once known as the Gateway District, was heavily affected by urban renewal policies of the 1950s and 60s, destroying what had at one point been the heart of the city. Dozens of city blocks were bulldozed and replaced with modern glass structures - or in many cases, surface parking lots. The portion of the street from Hennepin to what is now Interstate 35W was widened and a median was added. Further changes occurred to the east of the Interstate. Washington used to turn at the Seven Corners intersection (where Washington meets Cedar Avenue) and continue across the old Washington Avenue Bridge into Southeast Minneapolis. However, the old bridge was replaced in the 1960s with a new one which meets Washington east of the Mississippi River but doesn't connect with Washington west of it, instead connecting to a short freeway stub into downtown. There is a one-block portion of the old alignment between Cedar and 19th Avenues that is branded as Washington Avenue, but to continue east of the river, one must travel down Cedar one block and turn east at 3rd Street and get on an entrance ramp to the bridge. East of the river, Washington Avenue Southeast acts as a major thoroughfare through the University of Minnesota campus; a portion of this section has been converted to a transit mall to facilitate the METRO Green Line, opened in June 2014, along with METRO bus service which ran on Washington for decades until the reconfiguration. The street continues east for six blocks before ending at SE University Avenue; the area east of Harvard Street comprises the Stadium Village district.

The Minneapolis general strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, the major distribution center for the Upper Midwest. The strike began on May 16, 1934 in the Market District (the modern day Warehouse District). The worst single day was Friday, July 20, called "Bloody Friday", when police shot at strikers in a downtown truck battle, killing two and injuring 67. Ensuing violence lasted periodically throughout the summer. The strike was formally ended on August 22. With a coalition formed by local leaders associated with the Trotskyist Communist League of America, a group that later founded the Socialist Workers Party (United States), the strike paved the way for the organization of over-the-road drivers and the growth of the Teamsters labor union. This strike, along with the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike and the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike led by the American Workers Party, were also important catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The January 23, 2026 Minnesota ICE protests were large-scale protests held on January 23, 2026 across the state of Minnesota in opposition to expanded federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and the Donald Trump administration's mass deportation policies. The protests emerged amid a period of escalating federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota that preceded and continued through January 2026. Tensions rose after the Trump administration significantly increased funding and deployed thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents statewide as part of Operation Metro Surge, drawing sustained criticism from local leaders and activists. Public outrage intensified following the fatal shooting of Renée Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7, and further escalated as Minnesota officials and community members decried the lack of criminal accountability for Ross and the broader federal operation. In the weeks that followed, persistent ICE activity, aggressive raids, and confrontations with residents contributed to growing calls for a coordinated protest. On January 23, 2026, statewide demonstrations to oppose ICE operations and demand accountability and policy changes began. Organizers estimated that tens of thousands attended associated protests in subzero temperatures, and hundreds of businesses across Minnesota closed in solidarity with the action. Even some workers whose employers did not close still went on strike. Subsequent polling commissioned by the May Day Strong coalition and conducted by Blue Rose Research found that roughly one in four Minnesota voters either participated directly in the January 23 shutdown and protests or had a close family member who did. Among those participants, approximately 38 percent reported staying off the job that day, either by choosing not to work or because their workplace closed.

A statue of former Minnesota Twins baseball team owner Calvin Griffith stood in front of Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 2010 until 2020.