View of Nicollet Mall from the skyway

Nicollet Mall is a portion of Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Along with Hennepin Avenue, it forms the cultural and commercial heart of the city. The Nicollet Mall is an upscale shopping and dining district designed to appeal to the white-collar workers who form much of downtown Minneapolis's daytime community. Office buildings, most notably the IDS Center, and department stores such as Marshall Fields, are located on Nicollet Mall, and the area also includes Orchestra Hall and is conveniently close to the Warehouse District, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the Minneapolis Convention Center, and the Minneapolis Public Library. Minneapolis skyway (view through window) View through the window of skyway section shown in Image:Skyway2large. ... Minneapolis skyway (view through window) View through the window of skyway section shown in Image:Skyway2large. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Downtown Minneapolis as viewed from the Stone Arch Bridge Motto: En Avant (French: forward) Nickname: City of Lakes location in Hennepin County, Minnesota Founded Incorporated 1850s 1867  County Hennepin County Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor R.T. Rybak (DFL) Area  - Total  - Water 142. ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... Opened in 1974, the IDS Center (or IDS Tower) is the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 792 feet (241. ... Marshall Fields State Street Store interior, about 1910 Marshall Field and Company is a department store. ... Located at Nicolett Mall and 12th Street in Minneapolis, Orchestra Hall is home to the Minnesota Orchestra. ... The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... The Minneapolis Convention Center is a large convention center located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... The Minneapolis Public Library (MPL) is a library system serving the residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...

Nicollet Mall has very wide sidewalks surrounding a small 2-lane taxi and buses-only street, promoting a pedestrian-friendly atmosphere. However, bicycles are normally not allowed except for certain windows of time on the weekends. Nicollet Mall itself is only about 11 blocks long, but Nicollet Avenue continues well south of downtown Minneapolis into residential districts of the city. Although Nicollet Avenue's most noteworthy stretch is in the commercial district downtown, in recent years the 12 block stretch of ethnic restaurants and groceries along Nicollet Avenue just south of downtown, from Grant Street to 29th Street, known as Eat Street has become quite popular. A pedestrian at the intersection of Alinga Street and Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, Australia Look up Pedestrian on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. ... This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...

In the early 1990s, the City of Minneapolis criminalized panhandling, which was then an epidemic problem, on the Nicollet Mall (and indeed, throughout the two Downtown neighborhoods). The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ... Beggars in Samarkand, 1905 Begging includes the various methods used by persons to obtain money, food, shelter, or other necessities from people they encounter during the course of their travels. ...

Nicollet Avenue was named for early 19th-century French explorer and mapmaker Joseph Nicollet. Nicollet led three expeditions in what is now Minnesota. There are many other landmarks throughout Minneapolis and Minnesota named after Nicollet. Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786–September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. ... Downtown Minneapolis as viewed from the Stone Arch Bridge Motto: En Avant (French: forward) Nickname: City of Lakes location in Hennepin County, Minnesota Founded Incorporated 1850s 1867  County Hennepin County Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor R.T. Rybak (DFL) Area  - Total  - Water 142. ... State nickname: North Star State, The Land of 10,000 Lakes, The Gopher State Official languages None Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) Senators Mark Dayton (D) Norm Coleman (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 12th 225,365 km² 8. ...

The hat toss by television character Mary Richards in the opening credits of Mary Tyler Moore was filmed on Nicollet Mall. In 2002, the TV Land cable network dedicated and erected a statue of the character at the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall. There are many different styles of hats A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. ... The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... TV Land is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. ...

The Hiawatha light-rail line, which opened in 2004, connects Nicollet Mall with other parts of downtown Minneapolis, the Metrodome, portions of southeast Minneapolis, historic Fort Snelling, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and the Mall of America. Hiawatha light-rail vehicle #111 near Cedar-Riverside station The Hiawatha Line is a 12 mile (19 kilometer) light rail corridor in Minneapolis, Minnesota that extends to the southern suburb of Bloomington, in Hennepin County connecting downtown Minneapolis to the Minneapolis-St. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Fort Snelling is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in Hennepin County, Minnesota. ... Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, by far the largest and busiest airport in the state of Minnesota, straddles the southern border of the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. ... Above one of the Mall of Americas main entrances The Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. ...

Up until the 1950s and 1960s, when the Gateway District urban renewal project leveled much of downtown Minneapolis, the north end of Nicollet Avenue intersected with Hennepin Avenue at a low angle near the Mississippi River. Early in the city's life, the area was known as Bridge Square, and the second city hall sat in the small area between the two avenues. The city hall burned down in 1912, so plans were drawn up in the next few years to turn the plot of land into a grand (at the time) space known as Gateway Park. However, the park stood in an area that became crammed full of flophouses and liquor stores in the following decades, and it was eventually torn down. Images from the park's waning days showed it heavily littered with broken liquor bottles. // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... This page is about the river in the United States; there is also a Canadian Mississippi River (Ontario). ... Small-town post office and town hall A city hall, or town hall is the headquarters of a citys (or towns) administration. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Picture of the flower garden in the center of Gateway Park. ... A flophouse or dosshouse is a place that offers very cheap lodging, generally by providing only minimal services. ... Spirits redirects here. ...

Today, the massive intersection between Hennepin and Nicollet is gone. Nicollet Avenue was cut back slightly and now ends at Washington Avenue (a cross street). The building that sits right at the end of Nicollet is the former headquarters of Northwestern National Life Insurance (later owned by Reliastar, now ING), which was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the same man responsible for the World Trade Center in New York City. Yamasaki also designed another building (known as Reliastar II) next door. ING Group N.V. (NYSE: ING, Euronext: INGA ) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ... Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912–February 6, 1986) was an American architect, born in Seattle, Washington, a second-generation Japanese-American. ... The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC) was a complex of seven buildings designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki and leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south end... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

A modest park has been rebuilt on the site and still has a flagpole that is the last remnant of the old Gateway Park.

Farther south on Nicollet Mall is the former flagship Dayton's department store, now a Marshall Fields (will be renamed again in 2006; this time to Macy's). The opening sequence of the Mary Tyler Moore Show ended with Mary Richards throwing her hat in front of this store. It is located just across the street from the IDS Center. Target, which had originally been a branch of the Dayton Company, also has a presence on the mall: Both its corporate offices and a two-level Target Store are located on the Mall. Marshall Fields State Street Store interior, about 1910 Marshall Fields is a department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Exterior of typical department store (JCPenney). ... Macys Department Store on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan Looking down on Macys. ... Statue of Mary Tyler Moore in downtown Minneapolis, located on the corner of 7th and Nicollet Photo ©2004 Keir Briscoe The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a long-running sitcom that appeared on CBS from 1970-77, one of the most critically acclaimed shows—and one of the most beloved... Statue of Mary Tyler Moore in downtown Minneapolis Mary Tyler Moore (born on December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV... Target Stores is a division of Target Corporation. ...

Near the mall's south end sits the studios of WCCO-TV, the only television station to have its primary studios in Minneapolis today. WCCO-TV is a television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ...

External links

• Northwestern Life building