Re: (rshsdepot) Minneapolis, MN

["jmb" <jmb_@_msn.com>]

Thanks Bernie!
Merry Christmas to you, too!
I appreciate the news and stories you and the others contibute to this list.
LaVerne Brummel
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Bernie Wagenblast <brwagenblast_@_home.com>
To: RSHS Depot <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Minneapolis, MN


> In case I don't have any more station stories I find between now and
> December 25, let me take this opportunity to wish everyone on the list a
> very Merry Christmas.  I hope the stories I pass along have been
enjoyable.
>
> Bernie Wagenblast
>
> Depot Returns To Former Glory
>
> (photo links below)
>
> MeetingNews
>
> DECEMBER 17, 2001 -- A $60 million renovation and expansion project now
has
> made the newly opened Milwaukee Road Depot entertainment complex in
downtown
> Minneapolis a compelling group locale. Called The Depot for short, the
> project offers a unique lodging, meeting and recreation complex built from
> the remnants of an old train station that hadn't been used since 1971.
>
> Today, the Depot features a conference center and banquet facility, a
> year-round ice rink and a three-story indoor water park, plus a 227-room
> Courtyard by Marriott with 23 "historic" luxury suites, and a 130-room
> Marriott Residence Inn.
>
> The Depot can accommodate up to 2,500 people in more than 67,000 square
feet
> of event and meeting space. There are 11 meeting rooms, a
30,000-square-foot
> covered outdoor area, and two ballrooms. The Great Hall is a ballroom with
> 30-foot ceilings, three skylights, original hand-carved oaken woodwork and
> marble flooring.
>
> The Depot is within walking distance of such attractions as the
Mississippi
> River, the Historic Mill District, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome,
Target
> Center, the theater district, the business district and Nicollet Mall
> shopping. It is part of a larger plan to create a cultural corridor along
> the Minneapolis riverfront.
>
> http://www.thedepotminneapolis.com/home.htm  (Web site of The Depot)
>
> http://web.0sil8.com/episodes/mpls_signs/milwaukeeroad.html  (tower)
> http://vrdb.mnhs.org/ncollection/pf026/pf026992.jpg  (1948)
> http://vrdb.mnhs.org/ncollection/pf045/pf045737.jpg  (1935)
> http://vrdb.mnhs.org/ncollection/pf013/pf013889.jpg  (1952)
> http://www.stpaulfsc.org/depot.htm#Brief%20History%20of%20the%20Site
(brief
> history of site and links to more photos)
> http://www.stpaulfsc.org/images/BldgComplex.jpg  (contemporary drawing of
> depot)
>
>
>
>
>

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