Hit enter to search or ESC to close
The Falls
  • ABOUT
    • The Site
    • Timeline
    • Context
  • PROCESS
    • Native Partnership Council
    • Principles
    • Phases
  • ENGAGEMENT
    • Participate
    • What We’ve Heard
    • Resources
  • TEAM
    • Engagement Team
    • Design Team
    • Board of Directors
  • NEWS
    • Media Coverage
    • Press Release
    • Voices of the Falls
  • PROCUREMENT
  • ABOUT
    • The Site
    • Timeline
    • Context
  • PROCESS
    • Native Partnership Council
    • Principles
    • Phases
  • ENGAGEMENT
    • Participate
    • What We’ve Heard
    • Resources
  • TEAM
    • Engagement Team
    • Design Team
    • Board of Directors
  • NEWS
    • Media Coverage
    • Press Release
    • Voices of the Falls
  • PROCUREMENT
Friends of The Falls
By Friends of The Falls In Press Release

Public invited to conversation on future use of federal land near St. Anthony Falls

ISSUED BY CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS March 10, 2022 (MINNEAPOLIS) - A March 16 public conversation will discuss the future of…
Read More
Media Coverage

Nobody wants to buy the St. Anthony lock and dam near downtown Minneapolis

By Mark Reilly for Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal If anyone reading this has any interest at all in the massive lock and dam system that sits on the edge…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsMarch 9, 2021
Press Release

Friends of the Falls announces Kevin Armstrong as newest Board member

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2021 (MINNEAPOLIS) - Friends of the Falls, a Minneapolis non-profit seeking to transform the abandoned St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam site into a nationally-recognized…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsMarch 9, 2021
Media Coverage

Feds find no takers for mothballed Mississippi River lock in Minneapolis

By Susan Du for Star Tribune Army Corps of Engineers seeks a new owner and maintainer for the system.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is eager to get rid…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsMarch 8, 2021
Media Coverage

Federal deal paves way for redevelopment of land near Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge

By Kent Erdahl for Kare 11 Under a new agreement, the public will soon have greater access to the Mississippi River at the Upper St. Anthony lock and dam. The…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsDecember 30, 2020
Media Coverage

Army Corps to give riverfront land near closed lock and dam to city of Minneapolis

By Greg Stanley for Star Tribune The public will soon get more access to the Mississippi River in the heart of Minneapolis after federal officials decided this week to give…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsDecember 30, 2020
Press Release

WRDA 2020 Restores Public Ownership to Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam Land

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE To unlock project funding, community groups urge U.S. Army Corps to reconsider disposition recommendation. December 30, 2020 (MINNEAPOLIS) - The President signed legislation Sunday that potentially unlocks…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsDecember 30, 2020
Voices of the Falls

Owamniyomni: Re-imagining the Falls as an Urban Outdoor Focal Point

By Greg Lais | September 10, 2020 For most of my life I thought of the St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam as a dilapidated industrial zone filled with rust,…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsSeptember 10, 2020
Voices of the Falls

Putting Voices of the First People at the Center of Planning

By Robert Lilligren | July 30, 2020 We are fortunate in our state and region to have a history of strong leadership of Indigenous people, activists, and advocates. Currently, there…
Friends of The Falls
Friends of The FallsJuly 30, 2020
« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next »

Categories

  • Media Coverage
  • Press Release
  • Voices of the Falls

Friends of the Falls
105 Fifth Avenue South, Suite 405
Minneapolis, MN 55401
612-208-3159

CONTACT US

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

  • ABOUT
  • PROCESS
  • ENGAGEMENT
  • TEAM
  • NEWS
  • PROCUREMENT

© 2022 The Falls. All Rights Reserved. Images by NeDahNess Greene & Christopher Sticha.