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The Minneapolis City Council voted 8-5 on May 21, 2026, to impose a six-month moratorium on data centers larger than 350,000 square feet, with Ward 7 Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer among the five who opposed it.

The Cedar Lake Regional Trail is whole again after nearly seven years, with the last closed stretches of the Cedar Lake and Kenilworth trails reopening over the winter of 2026 once Southwest Light Rail construction cleared the corridor.

Westbound Franklin Avenue closed March 23 for a Hennepin County reconstruction running through fall 2027, as downtown weighed whether to extend its improvement-district assessments to residential properties and the City Council took up a contested $6 million police-training-site purchase.

The final stretch of the Kenilworth Trail reopened March 25, 2026, closing the last gap in a largely car-free bike route between the southwest suburbs and downtown Minneapolis.

Eight artists and entrepreneurs will turn vacant retail into a folk school, a recording studio and more.
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