The Historic Coliseum Building

12/14/2024

TODAY, Santa Claus is coming to town! 🎅🏾🎁❤️

🤶🏾 Bring your families out to our Holiday Festival to visit with Twin Cities’ Black Santa and Mrs. Claus!

💌 We’ll have plenty of child-friendly activities including Letters to Santa and ornament decorating with .

🌲 We also have some FREE holiday trees and wreaths for you to take home and decorate thanks to .bros!

🛍️ PLUS we have some great local Black-owned businesses to shop including:
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Tell your friends and neighbors! We hope to see you soon. ✨

12/13/2024

FREE CHRISTMAS TREES & WREATHS!! 🌲❤️✨

Thanks to a generous sponsorship from , we are giving away free wreaths, trees, and spruce tips at our Holiday Festival tomorrow. We’re so grateful for their support in helping us spread some holiday cheer! ✨

If you know a family who needs a little help decorating their homes this holiday season, please share this opportunity with them! 📲

Folks will be able to pick up a tree tomorrow, DEC 14 from 11 AM-5 PM at .

10/08/2024

OPENING THIS FRIDAY!
Come meet our newest tenant Lagniappe. Enjoy the beautiful space, delicious food and luscious cocktails.

At Lagniappe, it’s all about the little extra—that little something special that makes life (and food) just a bit more wonderful. Lagniappe (pronounced LAN-YAP) is a new restaurant concept where the charm of New Orleans meets the vibrant spirit of Minneapolis. At Lagniappe, we believe in celebrating you, just the way you are. Our doors are wide open for a dining experience that’s classy but never stuffy. We’re funky, cool, and ready to serve up some authentic New Orleans magic right here in Minneapolis. We’re opening our doors on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 5:00pm, and we can’t wait to welcome you!

We are located inside the The Historic Coliseum Building at 2700 East Lake Street. There is a FREE parking lot next to the building - enter on 27th Avenue.

08/01/2024

LEASING OPPORTUNITIES at the Historic Coliseum Building!
✅ All four floors have available spaces to rent.
✅ A full range of rental sizes to fit your spacing needs
✅ Welcoming amenities for you and your guests.
Visit our website to learn more: https://www.coliseummpls.com/the-building

06/20/2024

The Historic Coliseum Building is OPEN! We are so grateful for Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, City Council Member Robin Wonsley and Representative Ilhan Omar for joining us at the ribbon cutting on June 19, 2024. Our doors first opened in 1917, and now 107 years later, we are proud to re-open them to the community where Everyone is Welcome. And we’re not done either - there is still more to come, as more businesses and tenants continue to join our space, our multiple event spaces and a new co-working space become available for rent later this summer and the new restaurant Lagniappe and the Du Nord Cocktail Room open up on the ground floor this fall! We’re only just getting started!

06/18/2024

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, which couldn't be a better day to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Historic Coliseum Building. Come join us from 12:00 - 8:00 pm as we open our doors to the many activities and exhibitions celebrating the Soul of the Southside Juneteenth Festival. Originally built in 1917, we are excited to restore life back to this beautiful building more than 107 years later and help heal the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis along East Lake Street. Visit Soul of the Southside Festival for more festival information.

06/17/2024

A very special Thank You to the McKnight Foundation and their commitment to tell the story of our building and support our owners and our dreams for the future. Thank you to Line Break Media and Lisa Marie (LM) Brimmer for your magic at storytelling in both video and words. Come celebrate with us this Wednesday as we open our doors to Everyone at the Soul of the Southside Festival!

Equitable, community-centered redevelopment is bringing new life to East Lake Street

06/12/2024

*** ONE WEEK AWAY! ***
It’s the Grand Opening of THE HISTORIC COLISEUM BUILDING!

Next Wednesday, June 19th the doors will open to the public as a proud participating sponsor of the Soul of the Southside Juneteenth Festival. Join us from 12:00 - 8:00 pm. For information of our building activities, plus the entire festival lineup, visit Soul of the Southside Festival!

05/31/2024

Built in 1917, The Historic Coliseum Building on Lake Street has long served as a beacon for local businesses and BIPOC entrepreneurs. The 80,000 square-foot building is reopening its doors to the community on June 19th, 2024 as a part of the Soul of the Southside Festival.

The Historic Coliseum Building offers the Twin Cities a variety of new neighborhood resources in the heart of Longfellow:

▪️ event center - from its ballroom days to the present, the building has had a venue available for people to come together and celebrate.
▪️ coworking space - whether someone is visiting for the day or looking for that communal office feel, they can choose from a variety of state-of-the-art desk layouts to get work done from, independently or as a team.
▪️ space for lease - there are over thirty retail and office tenant opportunities with a heavy focus on Black, Indigenous, People of Color or BIPOC entrepreneurs and professionals.
▪️ restaurant and bar - opening in the Fall are Lagniappe, a funky, cool restaurant serving New Orleans cuisine as well as Du Nord Cocktail Room, a full service-bar where everyone is invited and everyone belongs.

Everyone is welcome at The Historic Coliseum Building. From the moment you step into the redesigned space and visit the Reception, you will be embraced. The building’s design was also carefully chosen to ensure that people of every ability can use the building.

Learn more at coliseummpls.com.

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05/16/2024

**SNEAK PEEK!**
We are weeks away from opening the Historic Coliseum Building to the public in June 2024, but if you just can’t wait…we will have our DOORS OPEN this Saturday May 18 and Sunday May 19 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm as part of the Doors Open Minneapolis event.

We are excited to participate in this free city-wide event and invite the public to step inside our doors to discover the history of the nationally recognized Historic Coliseum. Come explore the building and see firsthand the three year renovation that is nearing completion. Our programming includes self-guided tours throughout the entire building, along with activities for young people and families, and Bingo Card stops with other participating Longfellow neighbors. Visit our website to learn more.

We hope to see you this weekend!