Lofts & condos in Minneapolis

Minneapolis’s best loft stock is its old warehouse and milling districts: brick, timber, big windows, and the river. Here are 15 for-sale condo buildings, from the city’s first warehouse conversion in 1981 to the Cream of Wheat plant, each with its history and what to ask before you buy.

North Loop

The Warehouse District: brick-and-timber conversions along the rail lines and the river, plus a few newer buildings designed to look the part.

Itasca Lofts702–716 N 1st St

The building that started it: Minneapolis's first major warehouse-to-condo conversion, in 1981.

Riverwalk Lofts400 N 1st St

An 1895 farm-implement warehouse by the architect of Butler Square, with its trademark arched windows.

Tower Lofts700 N Washington Ave

The Northern Bag Company plant, still wearing the brick-wrapped water tower it needed to run.

Harvester Lofts618 N Washington Ave

International Harvester's Minneapolis works, converted in 2008 with penthouses added on the roof.

Bookmen Lofts525 N 3rd St

Grocery warehouses, then Minnesota's big book distributor, on the ground where the 1934 truckers' strike turned deadly.

710, 720 & 730 Lofts710, 720 and 730 N 4th St

Three sister buildings built new as condos, 2004 to 2007: the North Loop's modern-loft answer to the conversions.

Security Warehouse & 5th Avenue Lofts404 N Washington Ave and 401 N 2nd St

A 1903 safe-and-implement warehouse joined to a 2004 new build: one association, two very different buildings.

Mill District

The old flour-milling riverfront by the Stone Arch Bridge, where the mills and warehouses that built the city became condos.

Washburn Lofts700 S 2nd St

Part of the Washburn-Crosby “A” Mill complex, and home of the first Betty Crocker test kitchen.

American Trio Lofts250 Park Ave

A 1910 Chicago School warehouse where Ford once assembled cars, on the National Register since 1977.

Downtown

High-rise condo towers and one very unusual church tower, a short walk from the core.

The Carlyle100 3rd Ave S

A 41-floor, Art Deco-inspired tower on the downtown riverfront, and one of the tallest residential buildings in Minnesota.

IVY Residences201 11th St S (historic tower at 1115 2nd Ave S)

Condos attached to a 1930 ziggurat church tower that the city saved from being torn down for 25 parking spaces.

Grant Park500 E Grant St (Elliot Park)

A 27-story tower plus a ring of townhomes on the Elliot Park edge of downtown.

Northeast

Across the river: smaller industrial conversions, from a rubber-goods factory to the Cream of Wheat plant.

Calumet Lofts127 5th St NE

A small 1913 timber-frame conversion in St. Anthony East.

Durkee-Atwood Lofts215 7th St NE

A 1924 factory that made fan belts, radiator hoses and life-preserver vests, now 32 condos around a courtyard.

CW Lofts (Cream of Wheat)730 Stinson Blvd NE

The 1928 Cream of Wheat plant, a city landmark, with railroad tracks still set into some units.

“Lofts” doesn’t always mean condo

Plenty of Minneapolis buildings with “Lofts” in the name are apartments, which you can rent but not buy. A few you might come across:

724 Lofts (724 N 1st St): an apartment building; the county records it as a single apartment parcel.
Gurley Lofts (254 9th Ave N): marketed as lofts for rent.
A-Mill Artist Lofts (Main St SE): affordable artist apartments in the Pillsbury A-Mill.
Bassett Creek Lofts at 725 N 3rd St (725 N 3rd St): a 2019 apartment building; the older Bassett Creek Lofts at 901 N 3rd St is a condo.

It works the other way too. You’ll find units in condo buildings like Harvester Lofts or The Carlyle on rental sites, because individual owners rent them out. That doesn’t change what the building is.

How we check a building

Every building here is a recorded common-interest community (a condominium) in Hennepin County property records, where its units show up as individually owned parcels, and we confirmed it with a second source such as association records or current sales. We list the county’s condo number on each page so you can look it up yourself. Unit counts are the county’s condominium-parcel counts, which can differ from marketing numbers when units have been combined.

We don’t publish prices or dues. They change too often to print, and your agent and the association’s resale disclosure are the right sources. Start with our buying and financing guide.

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