Tag Archives: East Isles

Hennepin Avenue at 26th Street

An Opportunity of a Lifetime on Hennepin Avenue

• September 21, 2020

It was a moment that forever shaped the way I think about street reconstructions. A mom speaking at a public meeting, holding her child, asking the city’s public works department for a street with sidewalk space to push a stroller. Even more than that, she wanted a street designed with aspiration for the future – […]

Sing a Song of Uptown (Greta McLain, 2015)

Walking All the Streets in East Isles

• March 23, 2018

Logic and nomenclature are uneasy bedfellows, but for the East Isles neighborhood they get along passably well. The neighborhood generally lies to the east of the Lake of the Isles, extending as far west as Hennepin Avenue. True, that doesn’t explain why the northern boundary is 22nd Street rather than Franklin Avenue. Nor, more consequentially, […]