The newest apartment tower in Minneapolis offers a perk others can't: A bird's-eye view of Target Field . "You can watch a Twins game from your bed or deck," said Bob Pfefferle, managing director for Hines. The view of the stadium from a 15th-floor apartment at North Loop Green was more than a dozen years in the making.
The mixed-use project is one of the city's most ambitious — and complicated — developments in decades. The highest skyway in the city connects the project's two towers, which house more than 1 million square feet of space. Offices, apartments, fully furnished short-term vacation rentals.
There will be three restaurants, parks for people and dogs, a lawn big enough for yoga classes and outdoor movies plus more gathering spaces inside. The project, completed just weeks ago, comes at an especially challenging time for downtown Minneapolis. There's already a glut of empty office space in the metro, and building values are plummeting.
But with apartments and offices in North Loop Green leasing quickly, boosters say it's akin to a vertical neighborhood that will become a bustling downtown link between the flourishing North Loop neighborhood and the floundering Central Business District (CBD). North Loop Green could even exemplify how struggling metropolitan cities across the country can reverse their declines as hybrid work has leeched life from their streets. "This is a vision of the future," said Erin Fitzgerald, a commercial real estate broker and founder of .