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Nicollet Mall is the portion of Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Along with Hennepin Avenue, it forms the cultural and commercial heart of the city. The Nicollet Mall is an upscale shopping and dining district designed to appeal to the white-collar workers who form much of downtown Minneapolis's daytime community. Office buildings, most notably the IDS Center, and department stores such as Marshall Fields, are located on Nicollet Mall, and the area also includes Orchestra Hall and is conveniently close to the Warehouse District, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the Minneapolis Convention Center, and the Minneapolis Public Library.
Nicollet Mall has very wide sidewalks surrounding a small 2-lane taxi and buses-only street, promoting a pedestrian-friendly atmosphere. Nicollet Mall proper is only about 11 blocks long, however it extends well south of downtown Minneapolis into residential districts of the city as Nicollet Avenue. Although Nicollet Avenue's most noteworthy stretch is in the commercial district downtown, in recent years the 12 block stretch of ethnic restaraunts and groceries along Nicollect Avenue just south of downtown, from Grant Street to 29th Street, known as Eat Street has become quite popular.
In the early 1990s, the City of Minneapolis criminalized panhandling, which was then an epidemic problem, on the Nicollet Mall.
Nicollet Avenue was named for early 19th-century French explorer and mapmaker Joseph Nicollet. Nicollet led three expeditions in what is now Minnesota. There are many other landmarks throughout Minneapolis and Minnesota named after Nicollet.
In 2002, cable TV network TV Land dedicated and erected a statue to television character Mary Richards from The Mary Tyler Moore Show near the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall.
The opening of the Hiawatha Light Rail Line in 2004 will connect Nicollet Mall with other parts of downtown Minneapolis, the Metrodome, portions of southeast Minneapolis, historic Fort Snelling, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and the Mall of America. The Nicollet Mall station is one of the 17 light right stations that will be open once the project is complete.
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