Mount Olivet’s plan to demolish an old church building in Southwest Minneapolis to make way for a brewery landed with a thud at City Hall.
The latest: The city’s Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday against an application to tear down the 87-year-old 1700 Chapel on 50th Street.
Catch up quick: Mount Olivet Lutheran Church says the chapel is barely used and wants to instead construct a new, two-level building with a brewery on one side, a coffee house on the other and meeting rooms on a mezzanine level.
A rendering of Mount Olivet’s planned brewery and coffee house. Image: HGA via Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
What they’re saying: “There are reasonable alternatives to demolition that could at the very least be further explored,” commissioner Namdi Alexander told church leaders at a hearing…