News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Saturday December 27th 2025
Midtown Phillips Changes on 13th Ave., 14th Ave. and Lake Street
Changes 13th and 14th Avenues, 28th Street to the Greenway
BY HARVEY WINJE
The Greenway Market, 2825 13th Ave So. in the building recently occupied by Wentworth Aircraft for many years after it was Sears & Roebucks Service Center for decades, is proposing to keep current uses the same while adding more retail shops.
A new proposal is for five Townhomes with Granny units above the garage and some green space for children to play east of the Market and fronting, level with the Midtown Greenway. There is an opportunity to Tour the Greenway Market Tuesday March 28, 6:30-8pm before the Midtown Community Meeting at Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, 2824 13th at 7:15pm, previously Dayton-Rogers, metals Mfg. company for decades.
See Midtown Phillips NEWS on page 4 for more details.Â
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Persistence by Phillips Community: 3rd Opening in 2018!
BY HARVEYÂ WINJE
Persistence often prevails when the community is “between a rock and a hard place.”  Here is one of those times and places.
Five other Junior High Schools had been built in Minneapolis between 1917 and 1926 when Phillips Jr. High School and Sanford Junior High School were built four years before the Great Depression.  The same blueprint was used for Phillips and Sanford except Sanford originally had less classrooms.  Sanford Junior High is still used today complete with a very large addition providing more space at 36th Street and 42nd Avenue.
Phillips Junior High School had a pool and gym added in 1972.  However, Phillips Jr. High was closed in 1982 due to demographic shifts caused by highways and other societal factors. It was demolished in 1987 despite vehement neighborhood objections to not reusing it for housing, community space, offices, factory, school and/or combined multiple use.  In a contradictory decision, the Mpls. School Board bought Mt. Sinai Hospital four years later, 3 blocks away from Phillips School site and remodeled it with excessive costs into a special magnet school.
The neighborhood lobbied successfully to keep the Pool and Gym addition to the old Phillips Jr.… Read the rest “Persistence by Phillips Community: 3rd Opening in 2018!”
NO POOL APRIL FOOL in 2017! Phillips Aquatics Center Groundbreaking this Month!
BY DENNY BENNETT
MARCH 2017
You”'ll definitely notice the activity beginning on Monday, March 27th. Fencing goes up around the southeast end of the building and parking lot, the roll-off dumpsters hit the scene, and there will be activity much earlier than usual. Selective demolition inside the pool area will have begun!
APRIL 2017
By the following week, the heavy equipment will be outside, and weather permitting, April will start the month with outdoor demolition. Next comes the excavation, and then the foundation for the new addition, which will contain the new, 25-yard, 4-lane, warm water, learn- to-swim pool.
May 2017
May should be a stunning month as the addition takes shape! The whole look of the Phillips Community Center will have changed by the end of May as this new structure now has walls and a roof, after just two months. You”'ll be able to practically hear the people splashing in the pool inside!
June and July 2017
June & July are the months where it looks like nothing is happening on the new addition, but some of the most important things are getting taken care of before further work is done.… Read the rest “NO POOL APRIL FOOL in 2017! Phillips Aquatics Center Groundbreaking this Month!”
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