Transforming North Commons Park is a $20 million capital campaign to reimagine one of Minneapolis’s oldest and most iconic neighborhood parks. Home of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board’s first ever recreation center, North Commons continues to be a natural gathering place for families, with nearly 12,000 youth living within a one-mile radius. This once-in-a-generation investment will renovate the park’s aging fieldhouse with new programming spaces for youth, teens and seniors, a fitness space, a maker space, and a new concession space to serve the building and the waterpark, which will be wholly renovated. Programming North Commons with accessible and engaging youth offerings is also a vital part of the project.

Ways You Can Get Involved:

1. Make a contribution to the campaign:

Every donation helps this effort. Thank you for your investment!
Support the North Commons Campaign here.

Show your pride with the Northside Challenge. For a limited time every gift from the Northside will be doubled, dollar for dollar, by a $30,000 matching grant. Thank you!  

Support the Northside Challenge here.

2. Stay up to date:

Check out the Park Board’s North Commons Park project page.

3. Share the news:

Word of mouth is the most effective way to elevate the project.
Questions about fundraising – please contact Jennifer Downham at jdownham@mplsparksfoundation.org
Questions about the project – please contact Shawn Lewis at slewis@mplsparksfoundation.org

4. Contact your elected representative and thank them for their continued support of North Commons Park through state bonding. Write a letter, send an email, make a phone call: