Bartender’s New Mural Unveiled At Inbound
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association For the past six weeks or so, people going in for beers at Inbound BrewCo have noticed one of the bartenders outside with a...
Free Ice Cream at Grand Opening of Melon Treats
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association For the next eight weeks, the Love Your Melon studio space in the North Loop will double as an ice cream shop, known as...
‘Sorry About That’ Say Owners of North Loop Business
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association When they opened Number 12 Cider in the North Loop last November, childhood buddies Colin Post and Steve Hance felt the need to apologize....
Signs Will Shed Light On North Loop’s History
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association Many of the North Loop buildings that we now know as contemporary urban lofts, office towers and retail stores had much different identities in...
New Park Planned for the North Loop
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association Back when this area was filled with warehouses and industrial facilities, there wasn’t a need or demand for green spaces. But with the transformation...
North Loop to get Welcome Monument
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association As traffic volume has increased into this area of downtown, the North Loop Neighborhood Association has been actively trying to persuade local government agencies...
Craft Distillery Slated for the North Loop
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association A two-story craft distillery is slated to be the latest tenant to move into a pair of renovated North Loop buildings that date back...
Fulton Joins the Hard Seltzer Craze
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association With the soaring popularity of hard seltzer nationally, Minnesota's fourth largest brewery, Fulton, is quickly getting in on the action. It's now selling four...
How “Bump-Outs” Will Make North Loop Walking Safer
By Mike Binkley, North Loop Neighborhood Association While many North Loop streets are being torn up and reconstructed to make things better for drivers in the neighborhood, a second project is...