Welcome to the Citizens for a Loring Park Community!

Mission; To cultivate continuing leadership and help a diverse neighborhood realize a more harmonious, thriving, and beautiful community.

Community Meetings & Updates:

2024 -2025 Board of Directors

The CLPC Annual Meeting was held on March 19th, 2024 and the Board of Directors election was held virtually from March 19th to March 21st, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Thank you to everyone who participated and welcome to our 2024 - 2025 Board of Directors!

Terri Ashmore
Diane Conner
David Evinger
Lee Frelich
Ryo Hamasaki
Alex Heller
Norman Kulba
Phyllis Roden
Bubba Thurn
John Van Heel

Berger Fountain Task Force Meeting

The meeting date for March is to be determined due to the CLPC Annual Meeting. Task Force meetings are held in person at the Loring Park Community Center.

Signalized Intersection Traffic Safety Improvements

From the City of Minneapolis: These traffic safety improvements are federally funded through the Highway Safety Improvements Program, commonly referred to as HSIP. Improvements are centered on a demonstrated need and are centered on pedestrian safety while also providing benefits to all roadway users.

Safety improvements may include:

Improved traffic signal visibility, i.e.- overhead signals

Additional space for pedestrians, i.e.- curb extensions

Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS), i.e.- pedestrian push buttons

ADA compliant pedestrian curb ramps

LED lighting on traffic signal poles

Signalized intersections identified for safety improvements in your neighborhood include:

Lasalle Ave / Grant St

Lasalle Ave / 15th St

Nicollet Ave / Grant St

Nicollet Ave / 15th St

Willow St / 15th St (Not included in the federally funded project scope. This location is being considered through the use of local funds.)

While this project has a limited scope and budget, we do not anticipate engagement specific to each potential treatment, but rather providing information about the different treatment types, where they will be installed, and the project timeline. Additionally, we are working to launch an interactive mapping tool housed on the project webpage, to empower residents to share their feedback on their experiences at these intersections. The project team will use the feedback to help finalize designs at project locations.

The project is currently in the planning stage for concept development and input and will move to the engineering design phase in 2024. Construction and completion of the traffic safety improvements is planned for 2025.

Learn more here.

Learn about our Berger Fountain Restoration Project!

In 2021, Friends of Loring Park and Citizens for a Loring Park Community, as part of the Berger Fountain Committee, contracted with premier landscape architectural firm Damon-Farber to do a pre-design study to rehabilitate Berger (Dandelion) Fountain. This Minneapolis icon needs help.

Learn more about the project and how to help here.

Look for updates about Berger Fountain here..

Together we can restore Berger Fountain, preserving beauty and history for generations to come! Donate here.

Text BERGER. to 53-555 to donate.

CLPC Events

Save the Date! Our Annual ‘Love Loring’ online auction is scheduled for April 8th-April 11th. .

Watch Past Events

Upcoming Community Events & Engagement

Nicollet Safety Coalition

Join us Join us the 2nd Thursday of March from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., online.

Virtual Meeting

Join the Zoom meeting here..

Meeting ID:934 2850 8224 | Passcode: 895771

Safety walks for the Loring Park Neighborhood
Are you interested in promoting neighborliness and curbing crime in Loring Park and the surrounding neighborhood?

Beginning soon, we will embark on safety walks from The Woman’s Club through Loring Park and the surrounding neighborhood each Thursday from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. If you’re interested, please email Aileen Johnson at fritzdoris@comcast.net.

Please join us. Together we stand for a safer community.

Mission

To cultivate continuing leadership and help a diverse neighborhood realize a more harmonious, thriving, and beautiful community.