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.
CLPC Events & Updates
CLPC Annual Community Survey 2026
If you live, work, or own property in the Loring Park neighborhood, please take a moment to complete the survey below. Your response will help Citizens for a Loring Park Community (CLPC) develop priorities for the coming year.
Update on Berger Fountain Restoration
The Berger Fountain Restoration Projecr and new Plaza passed thru Minneapolis Plan Review the week of August 17th. We are moving into Construction!
The Project Budget is $2.95M and we have secured $2.8M. On Monday, August 17th Commissioner Jason Garcia and MPRB Planning Director Michael Schroeder met with the Berger Funding Workgroup. They approved that we could move ahead while we continue to raise the remaining amount of funds needed.
Fall 2027 – MPRB staff will finalize Construction Documents and Finalize Bid Packet
Mid January 2027 – Bids packets will be released
March 2027 – A winning bid will be selected, reviewed by the Civil Rights Department, and then forwarded to Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board for approval.
Contracting will follow. We are projecting a Spring 2027 Groundbreaking, followed by Construction.
This Fall and during the restoration the Berger Fountain Task Force will start up discussions on an Artistic Winter Cover and our past project with Dunwoody students.
Check out the incredible submissions from our design competition below! These submissions were from a Project that the Berger Task Force had with Dunwoody College a few years ago.
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..
Text BERGER. to 53-555 to donate.
Don't forget to ask your employer if they offer an employee match to double your donation!
Hennepin Lyndale Corridor Plantings
You will notice that maintenance on the Corridor Landscaping has begun! Green Minneapolis who has taken on Project Management of this corridor change their organizational focus to one of advocacy at the end of 2023. Coalition members are discussing the need for a permanent Project Management replacement but in the interim CLPC has signed the contract with the Landscape Company and resident John Van Heel/co-chair of the project is volunteering oversight of the contract.
Contributors to the contract are: The Basilica of Saint Mary, Lowry Hill Neighborhood, Individuals supporting the Douglas Urn, Loring Corners, Inc, St Mark’s Cathedral, Hennepin Ave United Methodist Church, Walker Art Center, and 510 Groveland.
We will also be partnering with the Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling Department to establish some Trash Containers on the corridor through the Fall.
Upcoming Community Events & Engagement
Watch Past CLPC Events
Community Meetings & Updates:
CLPC Board of Directors Meeting
The CLPC Board will meet on Monday, September 14 at 6:30 PM at Loring Park. Topics include:
- Data Center Discussion
- Fall Tree Tours at Loring Park
- Berger Fountain Updates
Nicollet Safety Coalition
Join us on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., online. We are looking for one representative per building; email CLPC if interested.
Berger Fountain Task Force Meeting
Join us on the third Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. Task Force meetings are held in person at the Loring Park Community Center. Find our Berger Fountain Facebook page and tell us why you love this Dandelion Fountain; share a story with us.
Oak Grove St. Traffic Calming
For a decade or more, many on Oak Grove Street between 15th St. and La Salle have pleaded with the City of Minneapolis to install traffic calming speed bumps. In the early fall of 2025 the City invited residents across the city to apply for traffic calming interventions to provide more safety on City streets.
So, I sent in a request, emphasizing that on our quarter mile or so there are 13+ high rise apartment and condominium buildings from three to twenty stories high with hundreds and hundreds of residents, one of the most densely populated areas in the City, with closely packed parking on the south side of the street and only two tight lanes of traffic passing each other opposite directions, and often with delivery drivers of various types double parking along the stretch leaving only one lane for cars going in opposite directions to negotiate. The parking situation makes visibility very, very difficulty for cars existing building driveways especially on the south side of the street, with far too many cars traveling on Oak Grove at 40+ miles per hour in a 20 mph corridor. Not only do we have hundreds of residents who walk the streets every day but many are children, with school buses in both the mornings and the afternoons; many walkers are senior citizens, and many folks traversing the street are disabled in various ways. The potential for dangerous situations is high, far too high.
Traffic calming in our Loring Park neighborhood is long, long over due. And, we on Oak Grove Street couldn’t be more joyous and thankful that Minneapolis is addressing this situation with five traffic calming speed bumps over this quarter mile residential street.
Gary Simpson
Board of Directors, 301 Oak Grove St. Condominium Association President Emeritus, Citizens for a Loring Park Community
Emergency Rental Assistance
Minneapolis residents are now able to apply for rental assistance funded by the City of Minneapolis. On February 5 and March 26, the Minneapolis City Council approved funding to support renter households after the continued impact of Operation Metro Surge.
This allowed the city to enter into a Joint Powers Agreement with Hennepin County for $2 million to allow their existing contracted community-based providers to support this rent assistance effort. Currently, three of their providers—CLUES, Isuroon, and Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center—are helping eligible applicants navigate the program. The County expects to add additional organizations from its provider network over the next several weeks.
Community Safety & Know Your Rights
Minneapolis is committed to being a Welcoming City where everyone feels safe, respected, and included, regardless of immigration status. If you or someone you know is affected by these developments, there are resources available:
- Free Legal Clinics: Immigration attorneys are available through Community Clinics, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, and Volunteer Lawyers Network.
- Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs: Drop-in hours are held every Wednesday, and Friday from 2-4 p.m. at 777 E. Lake St.
For more details on your rights in interactions with ICE, as well as how to prepare in case of an immigration encounter, visit this website.
- You have the right to remain silent.
- You can refuse to sign any documents until you speak with a lawyer.
- You can refuse entry to ICE officers unless they have a warrant.
- Stay calm, and don’t run away.
- Carry a “Know-Your-Rights” card and always have your immigration papers with you.
Learn about the impact of current federal actions and how the City is responding.
Know your rights if ICE comes to your home
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota suggests the following if federal immigration agents come to your home.
City resources for residents, workplaces and landlords
Visit the City of Minneapolis Federal Actions page for the latest updates and resources.
Residents
Know Your Rights materials
Monarca also has some signs available: https://monarcamn.org/resources
Businesses
The city has created signs that businesses (and any private property owners) can use to identify non-public areas in which they wish to lawfully restrict activities related to staging for civil immigration enforcement.
Learn more here.
The city also has a good Q&A online for business owners. Find it here.
Landlords
You can put up signs that mark private or non-public areas. The City provides digital copies of these signs. People without permission can’t enter. This applies to federal law enforcement unless a narrow exception exists, including having a judicial warrant. Learn more here.
There are Volunteer patrollers out in the neighborhood, residents who have been trained and they may reach out to your businesses, churches, and organizations.