Demolition of mills

After a hearing held and recommendation made at a council committee, on March 14 the city council voted 12-0 to deny the appeal by Joel Alders, of the newly formed Save Minneapolis from the Wrecking Ball Coalition, to stop the demolition of the boarded and vacant Nokomis Mill and Elevators at 3501 Hiawatha Ave. This will likely make it easier for ADM to sell the 2.4-acre parcel to be torn down and redeveloped. It is one of the six remaining mills of what was, in the early to mid-1900s, a thriving milling district with nine different milling complexes operating along the rail line there.