Lake Street News Brief
www.lakestreetcouncil.org
June 16, 2009

Lake Street Council's mission is to build
a cohesive strategy to ensure the ongoing vitality
of the Lake Street Corridor business community.

The Latest on Lake:

• This is the first week of our Lake Street Ambassadors Program! We've hired eight high school students to help keep Lake Street clean during the summer. They work 9 AM - 3 PM Monday through Friday with pik stiks and trash bags to get trash off our street and make this a more inviting place to live, work, and shop. If you're a Lake Street business owner, there are several things you can do to help the Ambassadors this summer. They ask area businesses for use of their dumpsters to dispose of their full trash bags, and we ask you to let them do so and to make sure your employees know to do the same. They'll also be working hard in the hot summer days, so an offer of water to drink would be most appreciated. A kind word about how much you value the work they do will also go a long way. We have a flyer on our website that we encourage you to print out and post in your business.
  
  And special thanks to the 2009 Ambassadors sponsors: Area business associations at Chicago Avenue, Hiawatha, Bloomington-Cedar, Nicollet, Lyndale and Longfellow; Allina; City of Minneapolis; Ryan Companies; Metro Transit; Wells Fargo; M & I Bank; and US Bank. We hire the Ambassadors through STEP-UP, a Minneapolis program that provides opportunities for employment for local young people.
  
  
• Part 2 of our driving tour of Lake Street is now up on YouTube. This section goes from Hiawatha to Bloomington and highlights the Midtown YWCA, Hi-Lake Shopping Center, Mercado Central, Plaza Verde, and many other great places. Also on YouTube, remember to watch part 1 of the tour and to see our new radio ad and airport ad for Lake Street.
  
  
• Congratulations to Open Eye Figure Theatre's Michael Sommers, who was recently awarded an Enduring Vision Award from the Bush Foundation. Open Eye Figure Theatre is a Lake Street Council member and just held a show in the Midtown Global Market as part of their 2009 Driveway Tour.
  
  
• The Phillips Eco-Enterprise Center, at 2801 21st Ave. S., was recently sold to Greenway Office LLC, an affiliate of Wellington Management. Wellington also owns the Hi-Lake Shopping Center. The Green Institute, the previous owner, has transitioned to being a signed lease holder.
  
  Also in Green Institute news, they have partnered with the American Indian Opportunities
  Industrialization Center to put federal stimulus money to use.John White, a local twenty-year-old, will join the Green Institute's ReUse/DeConstruction Program this summer for a ten week-long position funded with economic stimulus funds received by the AIOIC.
  
  To learn more about both pieces of news, visit the Green Institute's website.
  
  

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