From Placeography. The Minneapolis Post Office has served as the main post office for the city of Minneapolis and its surrounding area since its opening in 1935. The Art Deco style facility is situated along 2 blocks of 1st Street between Hennepin Ave. and 3rd Avenue in Downtown Minneapolis. It was designed by French-born architect Leon Eugene Arnal and constructed using local materials. It has undergone two expansions in its lifetime. In 1978, a free-standing 6-story parking ramp was built along the building’s North West side. The post office also expanded to a much larger degree in the late 1980s to accommodate the rising metro population and the need for greater efficiency. The Post Office remains in use today. However, the U.S. Postal Service has been flirting with the possibility of moving to the suburbs, thus presenting developers with a potential opportunity to reuse the building in an entirely different fashion.
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