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Rosenthal Interiors moves flagship to Minnetonka from downtown Minneapolis May 15, 2021 — 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink: The Rosenthal Interiors showroom, the last of the independent furniture stores in downtown Minneapolis and a fixture in the heart of the city since 1895, has moved to Minnetonka. But the siblings who own the store, the fourth generation of the founding family, are hanging onto the property. And they are keeping an eye on what happens downtown as it comes back from an extremely difficult year. For se...

Minneapolis explores carbon credits to help reforest the city The city seeks alternatives as a property tax levy to replace its canopy is set to expire at the end of the year  May 6, 2021 — 2:29pm Text size Copy shortlink: A divided Minneapolis Park Board voted to work with the nonprofit group Green Minneapolis to create the Twin Cities' first tree-planting carbon-offset credit program. Minneapolis loses about 3,000 trees a year to increasingly destructive storms and invasive pests such as the emerald ash borer. At the same time,...

Downtown Minneapolis workforce inching toward pre-pandemic levels article Downtown Minneapolis is seeing more workers return to work after the downtown workforce shrunk during the pandemic and during the trial of Derek Chauvin. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Two weeks after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, plywood and fencing downtown Minneapolis are nearly gone and businesses in the skyways are starting to reopen. But, they say it’s going to be a long time before they see customers at pre-pandemic levels. Julie McNally, a downtown worker, says she is starting to see more people recently a...

Boards and barricades set to come down this week downtown Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Some business owners say the fencing around buildings and the wooden boards on windows have kept people from visiting downtown Minneapolis.    "I’ve always said that the perception of downtown is a lot worse than the reality," says David Fhima, owner of the restaurant Fhima’s Minneapolis.   Minneapolis set to move back towards normal this week following Chauvin trial Boards, fencing, and barriers that have been commonplace in Minneapolis in recent weeks during the trial for Derek Chauvin are exp...

Created: April 21, 2021 06:07 PM Law enforcement leaders in charge of the coordinated response known as Operation Safety Net say they've begun the process of scaling back the immense security presence in downtown Minneapolis. Fencing and barbed wire, along with thousands of members of the Minnesota National Guard have been in place since the start of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, which ended on Tuesday. That presence has prompted some to compare the appearance of downtown to a "war zone." At the latest Operation Safety Net briefing, Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke announc...