HELP SAVE OPEN SPACE ON NICOLLET ISLAND
Friends of the Riverfront has filed three lawsuits challenging the plan to build a football stadium on Nicollet Island and the process by which local government has approved it. The first case ended when the Minnesota Supreme Court declined FOR's petition to appeal a ruling by the state Court of Appeals, but two more cases are still pending at the Court of Appeals. Friends of the Riverfront was joined in the first two cases by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota. The three citizen groups are asking that the City of Minneapolis and DeLaSalle be made to comply with state law and explore alternatives before destroying natural or historic resources. Donate to the legal fund online or send a check to Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, 219 Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth St., St. Paul, MN 55102-1406 (put "Nicollet Island" on the memo line).
Preservation magazine features stadium threat to Nicollet Island
The National Trust for Historic Preservation publication highlights development threats to the St. Anthony Falls Historic District. Click here to read more.
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U of M/Tree Trust forestry experiment at Nicollet Island Park
Sierra Club letter to Park Board (7/15/05)
The members of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the Sierra Club's North Star Chapter have agreed to join neighborhood and civic groups in questioning the DeLaSalle Nicollet Island Plan for a new athletic stadium. ...
"Out of scale and out of character": Robert Roscoe 7/25/05 letter to park commissioner
I am writing this letter to request that the DeLaSalle athletic field expansion on Nicollet Island not be constructed. As you know, Nicollet Island is a historic property as part of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic Distrcit. In general, the athletic field as proposed is incompatible with the landscape and structures on the island, especially the athletic fields' size, its required closing of Grove Street, the large obtrusive retaining wall, the distorted rise of topography, and the highly visible lighting fixtures that will greatly disturb the quiet character of the river environment.
Park Board isn't staying true to Wirth's vision
Park Board isn't staying true to Wirth's vision It's considering privatizing, selling off and even giving away precious Minneapolis public park property. By Charles A. Birnbaum Star Tribune October 29, 2005
From Atlanta to Seattle, our nation's legacy of urban parks are under siege from a variety of threats -- expansions by neighboring institutions, new parking lots and new "destination features." Minneapolis is no exception.
