Take a look at the Grand Opening event for the East Phillips Commons project in the East Phillips neighborhood.
"The Bryn Mawr neighborhood used the NRP to build community through gardening, and showed off some of its successes in its annual Garden Tour."
"Central Avenue, the commercial backbone of Northeast Minneapolis, is seeing some major changes due in part to planning and funding from the NRP work of several Northeast neighborhoods.
"East Village is a housing development in the Elliot Park Neighborhood. The neighborhood group helped get the project going by contributing funds from its NRP plan."
"The Humboldt Greenway project involved removing homes and reconfiguring a street in the northwest corner of Minneapolis. That project included the development of new senior housing, funded in part by Neighborhood Revitalization Program money."
"The Linden Hills Neighborhood allocated $138,000 of their Neighborhood Revitalization Program funds to help renew the Linden Hills branch library, an important center of that community."
"East Franklin Avenue in the Seward Neighborhood is showing the results of more than $800,000 in Neighborhood Revitalization Program investment."
"Four neighborhoods contributed NRP funds to rehabilitate a historic restroom building at Lake Harriet."
"In the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood, residents joined with the Urban League and Minneapolis Public Housing to build new housing units to de-concentrate poverty in Minneapolis."
"The Bryn Mawr and Harrison neighborhoods worked together to develop a bicycle trail along Bassett's Creek, and helped to pay for it with their Neighborhood Revitalization Program funds."
"The Armatage Neighborhood recently completed their second phase NRP plan. They asked for feedback on the plan at their annual Winter Festival."
Here's an information clip about the upcoming Minneapolis Saint Paul Home Tour
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Get a private visit to a home on the Minneapolis Saint Paul Home Tour in this clip.
"Over one hundred residents involved in neighborhoods participated in the NRP's 'Good Neighbors Building Better Neighborhoods' Conference in the Harrison Neighborhood. The conference featured a keynote speach the the director of the Los Angeles Department of Citizen Empowerment"
"The Loring Park Neighborhood, near downtown, boasts a long pedestrian street named the Loring Greenway; in the middle of which is a playground.
"The Fulton Neighborhood used Neighborhood Revitalization Program funds to encourage residents to build rain gardens to reduce problems associated with runoff."
The Lofts on Arts Avenue Project in the Stevens Square neighborhood used NRP Affordable Housing Reserve funds to bring affordable ownership housing to this primarily rental neighborhood.
The Olson Townhomes Project in the Harrison neighborhood used NRP Affordable Housing Reserve funds to rehabilitate a 92-unit scattered-site housing development built in 1956 near Olson Memorial Highway.
Watch the 30 second Home Tour 2004 PSA from Minneapolis Neighborhood News #78, the 2004 Minneapolis Saint Paul Home Tour Preview show.
Watch some scenes and interviews from the Grand Opening of the Lamoreaux Building in downtown Minneapolis.
