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Inside the Prince-Beloved Minneapolis Venue, First Avenue
May's indie music venue profile goes inside the Prince-beloved First Avenue in Minneapolis, where the club remains a cornerstone of the music scene.
After six years of working at famed Minneapolis venue First Avenue, Sonia Grover, Nate Kranz and the rest of the staff got phone calls one November morning in 2004 telling them to come get their stuff — the nightclub was closing. The staff quickly started communicating with Byron Frank, who had made the wise financial decision to purchase the building only four years earlier and stepped up to prevent the venue’s imminent closure. The space was designed at the height of luxury travel in 1937, with public phones, shower rooms, air conditioning and checkered terrazzo floors (which remain to this day) in stunning art deco style.
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