Peavey

The houses were displayed in pedestrian areas such as Peavey Plaza, Loring Park, and Intermedia Arts. For a personal touch each house was outfitted with welcome mats that read 'Welcome to Our Crib'.

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So, with Peavey Plaza about to effectively be bulldozed, what should be done?

Charles A. Birnbaum: City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin? Charles A. Birnbaum 2011

Right now, Minneapolis has a golden opportunity to revitalize Peavey Plaza, an award-winning modernist masterwork recently determined eligible to the National Register of Historic Places, but instead it's poised to replace Peavey with what some critics have already labeled a really watered down version of Chicago's Millennium Park.

Charles A. Birnbaum: City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin? Charles A. Birnbaum 2011

On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, a news conference was held to unveil the Peavey Plaza redesign.

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This obviously was recognized in Minneapolis's recent and sympathetic treatment of another Friedberg project less than half a block away, Loring Greenway, so the same was expected with Peavey.

Charles A. Birnbaum: City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin? Charles A. Birnbaum 2011

The Minnesota Orchestra hall that faces Peavey is undergoing a $45 million renovation and the Orchestra wants a new design.

Charles A. Birnbaum: City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin? Charles A. Birnbaum 2011

Using a Peavey MediaMatrix audio processing computer system, the audio suite was mixed live at each attraction point, and SMPTE time code was used to sync all the multi-channel Show Control devices together.

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About 80% of the funds for the redesign will have to come from private sources and the most logical donor is Peavey's other neighbor, Target.

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First, a quick background on Peavey Plaza, which was designed by the pioneering and inventive landscape architect M.

Charles A. Birnbaum: City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin? Charles A. Birnbaum 2011

And, in the same week that Peavey figuratively started walking the plank, the new Target Studio for Creative Collaboration opened at the Weisman Art Museum "devoted to stimulating creativity through visionary Collaboration among artists of all disciplines and between artists and scientists, engineers, and practitioners of other disciplines."

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