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Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) by Steve Raduns -- eBird Via Flickr: A Fish Crow give it's unique call at Spring Park in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
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Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) by Steve Raduns -- eBird Via Flickr: A Fish Crow give it's unique call at Spring Park in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
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The Hotel Del Otero
The Hotel Del Otero, once a jewel of Lake Minnetonka’s shoreline, stood as a testament to Minnesota’s golden era of lakeside resorts. Located at 4050 Shoreline Drive in Spring Park, this grand establishment opened its doors in May 1892, offering a luxurious retreat for city dwellers seeking respite by the water. A Lakeside Retreat Perched atop a hill overlooking Spring Park Bay, the hotel’s…
First hotel on Lake Minnetonka in more than 100 years opens for business
To say this business opening has been a long time coming might be a bit of an understatement. “This has been three years in the making,” Kelly Olsen said. “Actually, a hundred years in the making, right?” If you think 100 years seems like a stretch, think again. Olsen is the owner of a business that hasn’t been seen on Lake Minnetonka in more than a century – a hotel on the lakefront. Continue…
Owner transforms building into rare Lake Minnetonka hotel
A centuries-old oak tree and a grandmother who lived to see her 104th birthday provide inspiration and storylines for a newly completed office-to-lodging conversion project on Lake Minnetonka in Spring Park. But Kelly Olsen, the owner and developer of the new The Shoreline Hotel and Cabana Anna’sRestaurant, touted as the first new hotel on Lake Minnetonka in 100 years, was also motivated by a…
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First hotel built on Lake Minnetonka in a century opens May 1
When a three-story, half-vacant office building along the shores of Lake Minnetonka came on the market in 2022, Kelly Olsen spied an opportunity. The COVID-19 pandemic was still fresh, with many office workers remote or coming in far less often than the usual five days a week. That caused both demand for and valuesof office buildings to wane, giving Olsen the final push to pursue a long-held…
Hennepin County to set 350-foot buffer limits for cannabis retail
Most cities in Hennepin County have been deciding how to register the new cannabis retail businesses so they can collect the fees and exert some control. However, some small cities have opted to give that responsibility to the county. As of this printing, Hennepin County has heard from Greenwood, Loretto, Medicine Lake, Shorewood and Spring Park that they will defer the responsibility to the…
Back Channel and other small breweries dominate 2025 Minnesota Brewers Cup
Even with a lot of gloomy industry news to discuss, brewery representatives from around the state still got to the fun stuff at the Minnesota Brewers Conference last weekend: They drank a lot of beer and celebrated the best of it. Many smaller, newer and/or lesser-known breweries took a lot of the top honors in the Minnesota Brewers Cup, a contest and awards ceremony that took place at the…