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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Penn Avenue reopens, but businesses remain closed after water main break
A month after a water main break caused major flood damage to a building that houses multiple businesses and apartments in southwest Minneapolis, the intersection at 50th and Penn Avenue has partially reopened. In an update provided by the city on Friday, it was announced that Penn Avenue South has reopened to traffic for the first time since the water main break that closed Terzo Restaurant, Paperback Exchange, Sparrow Cafe and Theisen Renovations. But West 50th Street remains closed to traffic between Penn and Oliver Avenues. The city said workers installed a support beam on Thursday night to help stabilize the building and have added an additional support beam on Friday. The beams and shoring towers are needed to support the building for the basement wall to be overnight main water break on Feb. 13 came from a pipe inside the building that houses Italian restaurant Terzo and five apartments above it, with a large amount of water gushing into the streets and alleyways. The flooding completely flooded Terzo's basement and destroyed around 100,000 books in the basement of the Paperback Exchange said in social media posts on Thursday it's been "working hard with insurance, the restoration company and the city to assess the damage and the remediate the building." "The burst water main seriously compromised the foundation and structure of the building; however, crews are hard at work trying to shore up the building to begin structural repairs," the local bookstore said. Terzo hasn't provided any updates to its situation since March 3, when the restaurant said it was doing what it could to support its staff through a GoFundMe. You can help donate to each business's financial situation through the following GoFundMe links: The city says it will be able to resume retaining wall construction over the weekend and will continue work into next week, with the goal to open up two-way traffic via the northern half of 50th Street by the end of the week.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Water main break wreaks havoc on southwest Minneapolis businesses, apartments
A water main break overnight in a southwest Minneapolis neighborhood caused major damage to properties, displacing residents and temporarily closing businesses. Bring Me The News was near the intersection of 50th Street West and Penn Avenue Thursday morning, where city cleanup crews were active. The flooding, believed to have started around 3:30 a.m., led businesses to close on Thursday while some residents of a nearby apartment building were evacuated. View the 4 images of this gallery on the original article One of those businesses, independent bookstore The Paperback Exchange, says it is closed "indefinitely" due to the damage sustained in the flooding. The Minneapolis Fire Department said the main water break came from a pipe inside the building that houses Italian restaurant Terzo and five apartments above it, with a large amount of water gushing into the streets and alleyways. The city's water department is on scene and continuing to address the incident, but was standing by to wait for additional resources required to shut off in the basement of Terzo Restaurant, which couldn't immediately be reached due to the volume of floodwater. Minneapolis Fire spokesperson Melanie Rucker says about a foot of water is in the surrounding area. Terzo Restaurant shared a video to its Facebook account showing water pouring out from the building. It stated its basement and main floor were flooded, but added that its neighboring restaurants — Broders' Cucina and Broders' Pasta Bar — was not impacted. "While our intersection may be under construction these next days, we are maintaining normal hours at our sister restaurants and hope to see you there. If you have a reservation at Terzo, expect to hear from us soon," the business said.
