Minnesota Media Arts moves to expanded space in the Grain Belt Warehouse

Minnesota Media Arts moves to Grain Belt Warehouse Building  (January 2019)

Grain Belt Warehouse Building  77  NE 13th Avenue 

After almost 16  months of incubator space with the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN),  In January 2019,  MNMA will be moving into a new office and media lab in the Grain Belt Warehouse, located at 77 NE 13th Avenue just down the street from the famous brewery, in lovely “Nordeast” Minneapolis, managed by ArtSpace. We will be subletting from our colleagues at Big Event Productions, one of the Twin Cities premier event multimedia and staging companies.

Big Event Sublet; Empty canvas for our media lab and office space MNMA’s new offices will provide multiple workstation space to continue the development of our “Legacy Format-Media Lab” plus expanded archive project management and format viewing options.

Big Event's insert video recording
stage 25’x 30' x13’ with green screen.

Mark Stanley and Ron McCoy anticipate the new office space to be conducive to multi-tasking projects and services with increased broadband access. In addition to being housed with a professional resource like Big Event, the Broadway & Marshall neighborhood has some wonderful “watering-holes” nearby, with a large free parking lot and views of the Mississippi river. The city will be adding a new park to the north of the parking lot.

A little history… The Grain Belt Bottling House (1906) and adjacent Warehouse (1910), where we are located,  served as vital components of the historic Grain Belt Brewery complex in Northeast Minneapolis for seven decades. Designed by the Minneapolis firm of Boehme and Cordella, who also designed the mansion that houses the American Swedish Institute, these matching two-story buildings have identical yellow brick facades and large arched windows. While the majestic brewhouse across the street stood vacant for nearly three decades after the brewery closed in 1975, the Bottling House and Warehouse soon filled up with artists and creative businesses looking for inexpensive studio and office space. By the late 1990s, however, the neighborhood around the brewery had begun to gentrify. When the City of Minneapolis announced plans to sell the buildings, the artists approached ArtSpace with a request to buy and maintain them as affordable studio space for the arts sector.

We appreciate your support as we strive to develop strategies and resources to attack the "Magnetic Media Crisis".  Please consider making a tax exempt donation to Minnesota Media Arts to help with our new facility and support some of our ongoing projects.    https://mnmediaarts.org/donations-givemn.html    

Thanks, Ron McCoy