10/15/2026
Community investment can take many forms. 🌱
Sometimes it means providing a business with space to grow. Sometimes it means helping an entrepreneur access financing or technical assistance. And sometimes it means helping a local business turn an idea for a better, greener property into reality.
For more than 75 years, Phelan Manufacturing has called South Minneapolis home. When it came time to improve its parking lot, the company saw an opportunity to do more than replace pavement. With Redesign serving as its fiscal sponsor, Phelan was able to access funding from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to partner with Metro Blooms to install four rain gardens designed to capture stormwater runoff and help protect water quality.
It’s a great example of how Redesign’s work goes beyond buildings and business support. By helping connect community ideas with the resources to make them possible, we can support investments that benefit the neighborhood and the environment.
Read Phelan’s story: https://redesigninc.org/phelan-manufacturing
Sustainability can take many forms. In Minneapolis’s Seward neighborhood, Phelan Manufacturing is building on years of investments in its facility with four rain gardens designed to capture and filter stormwater runoff. With funding from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and fiscal...
