North Commons redevelopment is a community-rooted vision for realizing the park’s potential as the center of cultural, social, and economic vitality...
Category: Current Project
People for Parks Fund
The People for Parks Fund exists to advance under-supported projects and programs in Minneapolis parks and to serve as the catalyst for connecting...
Free Lending Libraries
The Minneapolis Parks Foundation’s support for Little Free Libraries® in Minneapolis Parks helps ensure that all members of the community can...
Citywide Parks Investments
Minneapolis Parks Foundation supporters, through gifts to our general operating fund, make it possible for us to invest in parks and programming...
Past Projects
Since 2003, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation has been dedicated to connecting people to each other and the natural world through parks. Explore some...
Great Northern Greenway River Link
Now Open! Visit the first new park on the Mississippi Riverfront in a nearly a generation: The Great Northern Greenway Overlook at 26th Ave N....
RiverFirst
Before Minneapolis was the “city of lakes,” we were a river city. Now open in 2021, two new RiverFirst projects – Water Works at Mill Ruins...
Water Works
Come enjoy the sweeping views and places to gather and play and restore and refresh at Water Works Park and Pavilion. The pavilion and restaurant...