Free Fitness Classes Coming to the Minneapolis Convention Center Plaza
Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 3:52PMVia a June 24 e-announcement:
Every Saturday from July 17 through August 28, the newly redesigned MCC Plaza will host Summer Fitness on the Plaza
The Minneapolis Convention Center (MCC) is introducing the public to its newly redesigned Plaza this summer by offering free outdoors fitness classes every Saturday from July 17 through August 28. A variety of local fitness businesses have been invited to take their classes outside and onto the Plaza – bringing seven weekends and 15 classes from which to choose.
Each Summer Fitness on the Plaza event is free to the public. There is no limit on the number of events that fitness enthusiasts may attend.
- When: Every Saturday from July 17 through August 28
- Where: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (The Plaza is located across the street from the main entrance on 2nd Avenue.)
- Price: Free
- Registration: Click here
- More Information: Click here for the complete schedule and class details
“We’re excited to welcome the community to our beautiful new Plaza through these free fitness classes,” said Minneapolis Convention Center Executive Director Jeff Johnson. “We talk a lot about the Minneapolis Convention Center being a ‘relationship building,’ and Summer Fitness on the Plaza is one of the events that helps strengthen the bonds between the MCC and the surrounding community”
ABOUT THE MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER
The Minneapolis Convention Center (MCC) is owned by the City of Minneapolis and marketed through Meet Minneapolis. The 1.6 million square foot facility features 475,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 3,400 fixed-seat auditorium, 87 meeting rooms and two ballrooms. The MCC is GBAC STAR, LEED and GMIC certified and works to serve its constituencies and stakeholders as the face of Minneapolis to visitors. Through its efforts, the MCC helps sustain more than 8,600 jobs in the community.
ABOUT THE MCC PLAZA
Located on the south side of downtown with beautiful skyline views, the 2.5-acre Minneapolis Convention Center Plaza is built on top of an underground parking deck and includes a sweeping manicured lawn perfect for picnics and lawn games, surrounded by a lush urban meadow planted with prairie grasses and wildflowers that is downtown’s largest pollinator refuge. Designed by Damon Farber Landscape Architects for environmental sustainability, the Plaza includes native tree and plant species, and irrigation utilizing the Convention Center’s stormwater capture system. The project is pursuing SITES certification as one of the first projects in the region. SITES is a sustainability-focused framework that ushers landscape architects, engineers and others toward practices that protect ecosystems and enhance the mosaic of benefits they continuously provide our communities, such as climate regulation, carbon storage and flood mitigation.
