A Fancy Theater Does Not A Neighborhood Make

When Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater opened its dramatic new home on the Mississippi riverfront last summer, critics lauded both the building itself, and the new residential and commercial district growing up around it. But historic preservation standards and lack of effort have left the new neighborhood decidedly incomplete. “It’s been well-planned, probably as well as any city district. But no one’s in charge of the little things that, in a city, mean so much.”