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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

The Book House in Dinkytown, captured on June 28, 2022.

In an era of chains, locally-owned Dinkytown stores persevere

by Jack O'Connor
Published November 15, 2023
Local business owners are fighting back against the trend that has seen more than half of all Dinkytown businesses being chain stores or non-locally-owned.
Varsity Theater (left), Blarney Pub and Grill (bottom right) and the one story brick building on the northwest corner of 4th St SE and 14th Ave SE (top right), on November 6, 2023.

Preserving Dinkytown: Commercial Historic District design guidelines spark conversation and concern

by Grace Aigner
Published November 6, 2023
Eight years after it was first proposed, the city has resumed discussion of Dinkytown’s Commercial Historic District guidelines draft.
Dinkytown on August 2nd, 2023.

Rogers: A battle for the soul of Stinkytown

by Kelly Rogers
Published August 4, 2023
The public narrative associated with Dinkytown is causing more harm than increased safety measures can solve.

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