Help design the new bike park by filling out online survey or printable worksheet, plus Two Open Houses events planned: in-person at Lake Nokomis Community Center on March 13 and online on March 18
Posted on 28 February, 2025The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is planning a new bike skills park near the intersection of 34th Avenue S and Minnehaha Parkway!
There are a bunch of ways to weigh in on its possible design, range of uses, and features installed at the park this spring:
- Take an online survey
- Print a Build-Your-Own Bike Skills Park Worksheet, complete it, and then upload it using the online survey linked above.
- Attend an in-person Open House event on Thursday, March 13, 2025, 6-7:30 pm at Lake Nokomis Community Center, 2401 E Minnehaha Parkway.
- Attend an online Open House event on Tuesday, March 18, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Project Schedule
Feedback from the online survey, worksheet, in-person and virtual meetings, and internal staff committee advising on the project will be collected throughout spring. Over summer, a proposed final design will be created and MPRB Commissioners will consider it for approval after a public hearing.
After a design is approved, construction work will be published for bids and work could begin as soon as this fall. After the new bike skills park opens, the temporary bike skills park across the parkway from Lake Nokomis Community Center will be removed to prepare for renovating the tennis courts there.
Project Background
Three banks of tennis courts in very poor condition near Minnehaha Creek between Lake Hiawatha Park and Minnehaha Regional Park were removed in 2024 as part of a project to transform these spaces into a pollinator lawn, clay tennis courts, and bike skills park.
Changes to the courts along Minnehaha Parkway Regional Trail near the intersections of 30th, 32nd, and 34th Avenues South are outlined in Segment 4 of the long-term plan for Minnehaha Parkway Regional Trail completed in 2020. All three sets of courts were removed last spring.
A permanent pollinator lawn was planted at 30th Avenue S and temporary lawns were planted 32nd and 34th Avenues S.
At 32nd Avenue, Minneapolis Community Clay Courts is fundraising to build clay tennis courts. The MPRB partnered with Minneapolis Community Clay Courts to open the park system’s first clay courts at Waveland Triangle in 2021. Visit letsplayclay.org to learn more and get involved in the future clay courts project.
At 34th Avenue, the upcoming bike skills park received $40,000 in funding from the Metropolitan Council Equity Grant Program, in addition to $264,000 in Park Dedication Fees allocated to the project.