Downtown Minneapolis | Nicollet Mall and Marquette | May 2023 

Good morning from sunny Vietnam.

Just wanna say thank you for these videos! I have been planning to relocate here from Kentucky for a couple of months and after signing my lease have been packing for the permanent move, so these have been a godsend to getting to know the area before actually staying for good. Please keep up the great work!

Yes, the Prohibition Bar atop the Foshay Tower is terrific! Best Sazerac cocktail I've ever had. :) @52:22 BANK is the restaurant in the Art Deco Westin Hotel, which explains the sign.

I used to work downtown in 2018. It is crazy how few people are down there now in the middle of a weekday. The sidewalks used to be a way more crowded and food trucks used to line the streets during lunch hours. It looks like a weekend. Bummer for the businesses.

Awesome and i live in Minnesota

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The Voya Building was never a library. It was built for the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company and was designed by Minoru Yamasaki - the same architect who later designed the original World Trade Center towers in NYC. Nicollet Mall is basically now an office park, which is why there is not much foot traffic these days. Most of the retail and foot traffic has migrated to the historic North Loop, which is the area behind the Whole Foods shown at the beginning of the video. Nice walkabout!

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Another great video! I visited the IDS Building and ate at the restaurant that Mary Tyler Moore ate at in one of the openings of her show! It used to be Basil’s now The Jolliet House located in The Marquette Hotel!

2005 to 2007 were the best years for that city

i love minnesota state :D

Im from New York City and Im not used to seeing a major downtown area with no people. What the hell happened to everyone 😮.. The other post mentioned cleanliness like 3 times. Well of course its clean. There is no one to litter!

Where are all the people!?

Ok, I don’t know if this guy wanted to show his city as being one in a long line of half vacant cities but he did. On top of that talk about boring buildings. Just lego boxes for the most part. A few nice tartarian style buildings in the older part. Take note of all the ambulances…they seem to escape all the walkers. FYI until recently it wasn’t normal for a downtown core to have ambulances just driving around waiting for the next victim…even on Friday nights. The streets looked pretty darn clean but then there was a distinct lack of foot traffic especially inside buildings he walked into. Looks like they cleaned up after the riots a few years ago…unless it happened in other areas he didn’t go to. Curious about that Canadian RBC building and that it just opened? Wonder if it is occupied? So many empty office buildings is easy to see as there are not the people on the streets to support that. They have cleverly disguised this better than other cities though by keeping it clean and devoid of the bent people, their drugs, garbage and tents that plague other cities. Must have moved them to another area. The church and target building were nice but can’t say much for the rest. Even street art installations were boring and lacked imagination. It was, at least, cleaner than most but it’s easier to keep clean when hardly any people are there.

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Are there frequent violent crimes during they day? is there a strong police presence?

WCCO TV building looks abandoned! I think it still there, however! No use to no cars around the building and the blackout glass windows and doors.

2:27 is the old Federal Reserve Building. It contain asbestos and cost of removing was astronomical! I think it still own by the federal government!😮