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here to download a PDF of this property pageTraffic Zone Center for Visual Arts
250 Third Avenue North
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
Opened 1995
Related Link: www.trafficzoneart.com
Click here for info on Traffic Zone Open Studio Event
For commercial space information call
(612) 465-0234 or email
For artist studio space, please call Harriet Bart at (612) 375-1598 or email
Historic building, unique partnership
With its distinctive limestone exterior, the six-story Traffic Zone is one of the most beautiful buildings in Minneapolis' historic Warehouse District. Built in 1886 as a farm implement warehouse, it was converted into a bakery two years later; from 1951 to 1992, it was an appliance parts warehouse. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Traffic Zone was created to meet the needs of a group of artists who approached Artspace in the early 1990s because they were being forced out of their studios in other buildings in the area. Pooling their resources, the artists formed a for-profit corporation that now owns and operates the property in partnership with Artspace.
The Traffic Zone contains 24 large studios on its first, second, and third floors. All studios feature hardwood floors, high ceilings, exposed brick and beams, and large windows; many also afford views of the downtown skyline. The artists share their building with several commercial tenants, including Artspace itself.