Block E ("E" being for "Entertainment") is at the center of downtown Minneapolis. It's between 6th and 7th Streets, and Hennepin Avenue and 1st Avenue. It's across from City Center on Hennepin, and across from the Target Center on 1st Avenue.

Before being razed around 1987, Block E was filled with a variety of seedy and not-so-seedy entertainment businesses. The property was a parking lot for over a decade while various development projects were considered and then shelved. The current Block E entertainment complex was developed by McCaffery Interests. Different tenents began opening up in 2002, such as the Crown Block E 15 movie theater, Border's Bookstore, and the Hard Rock Cafe.

Links

• Block E Images from McCaffery Interests Website
  McCaffery Interests is the developer of Block E
  http://www.mccafferyinterests.com/content/current/blocke/image_gallery.
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• Block E Section, McCaffery Interests Website
  This is the developer responsible for block E
  http://www.mccafferyinterests.com/content/current/block_e.htm
• Gameworks at Block E website
  http://www.gameworks.com/locations/loc_minneapolis.html
• Hard Rock Cafe Minneapolis Location
  http://www.hardrock.com/locations/cafes/cafes.aspx?lc=MINN
• 1973 National Archives and Records Administration Photo of Block "E" on Hennepin Avenue
  http://media.nara.gov/media/images/11/12/11-1130a.gif
• 1943 Photo of Shinder's Hennepin News Company, Hennepin and 6th
  http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf021/pf021252.
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• 1912 Photo of 7th Street North from Hennepin Avenue
  http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf048/pf048638.
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• 1908 Photo of Hennepin and 6th Showing Block E
  http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf044/pf044429.
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• 1920 Photo of Traffic at 7th and Hennepin
  http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf013/pf013632.
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• 1912 Photo of Hennepin Avenue from 7th Street Looking North
  http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf012/pf012837.
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• Map of Downtown Minneapolis from the GMCVA
  http://www.minneapolis.org/pages/visitors/maps.asp

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