Reconstructing Lake Street: Resource Links

Reports and articles

Taking It To The Street: How roadway design helped shape a neighborhood's development, by Tony Proscio. Case Studies from Payne-Lake Community Partners, April 2005. (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Lake Street Reconstruction: A Review and Look to the Future for Street Design in Minneapolis, Project for Public Spaces, Inc. and Glatting Jackson, Transportation Consultants, prepared for The McKnight Foundation, July 2004. (PDF, 1.9 MB)

Lake Street: It Needs More Than Repaving, Editorial, Star Tribune, February 15, 2004, updated February 18, 2004.

Remaking Lake Street, Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, May 3, 2005.

General links

Payne-Lake Community Partners, a community development initiative created to accelerate investment in and revitalization of two of the Twin Cities' commercial corridors and their surrounding neighborhoods: the Payne-Arcade and Phalen Corridor area of St. Paul and the Lake Street area in Minneapolis.

Construction Underway, Midtown Exchange News, specific information about the Sears site redevelopment. Website is part of the Midtown Community Works Partnership site.

Lake Street Council, community organization representing the commercial, industrial and professional interests along the greater Lake Street corridor.

Lake Street Reconstruction and Streetscaping, excellent source of information, sponsored by Hennepin County and City of Minneapolis.

Midtown Community Works, website for a partnership comprising corporate and nonprofit executives, Minneapolis's mayor, and other elected officials.

Midtown Greenway Coalition, site dedicated to the Midtown Greenway Project, located two blocks north of the Lake Street Reconstruction.