For the Carlson Family Foundation, improving access to parks is an investment in youth development. In study after study, parks have been shown to...
Category: North Commons Park
Transforming North Commons Park
Transforming North Commons ParkLargest Investment in a Minneapolis City Park Ever, a Community Vision Is Being Realized Minneapolis, Minn. – An...
Raising Youth Voices to Reimagine North Commons
With nearly 12,000 kids living within walking distance of North Commons Park, hearing what kids, teens and young adults want to see in their...
A Once-in-a-Generation Renovation
One of the core goals of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation is to increase access to our city’s invaluable parks and green spaces. Parks have the...
2022 Highlights and Reflections
Unlike plunging into the Covid pandemic in 2020, which happened literally overnight for many of us, emerging from this life- and world-changing...
Four Concepts Invite Community Visioning for North Commons
Earlier this month, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board shared four concepts for transforming North Commons Park Recreation Center and Water...
Keiona Cook of Lovely’s Sewing Fashioned a Positive Way to Collect Data at North Commons
Keiona Cook knows what people like. “When you’re working in community, you need to meet people where they are,” she says from her co-working...
September Brings Reimagining to Minneapolis
Next week, you may see groups of notebook-carrying park practitioners and community members out and about in Minneapolis – walking from the...
Slow Roll Joy
One of my favorite activities in summer evenings is to participate the Slow Roll MSP community bike rides through our city’s neighborhoods. ...