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A century-old brewery on the Northeast Minneapolis riverfront, now home to offices, an event venue, and working warehouse space, right in the corridor where Northland's own Columbia Heights team is closest to home.
A century-old brewery on the Northeast Minneapolis riverfront, now home to offices, an event venue, and working warehouse space, right in the corridor where Northland’s own Columbia Heights team is closest to home.
The Grain Belt Brewery complex on Marshall Street NE has been a fixture of Northeast Minneapolis since 1893.
What was once a brewhouse is now a mix of rehabilitated office space, an event venue called The 1893, apartments, and active warehousing, anchoring a stretch of the riverfront where century-old industrial buildings sit alongside newer commercial tenants.
That mix is close to exactly what Northland Staffing Solutions was built for. Warehousing operations in this corridor need light industrial workers who can start fast and handle the work. Office tenants need reliable clerical and administrative support. Event spaces like The 1893 need staff who show up on time for a one-night booking, not just a standing shift. Northland’s Minneapolis office, on Central Ave NE, sits close enough to this stretch of Marshall Street to know it, not just serve it.
Light industrial and warehouse staffing for the Marshall Street corridor
The Grain Belt complex still includes active warehousing alongside its offices and event space, and it’s not alone. The stretch of Northeast Minneapolis along the Mississippi riverfront has a long history as an industrial corridor, and warehousing, distribution, and light manufacturing work is still very much part of that character today, even as some of the historic buildings have been converted to offices and apartments.
For businesses operating warehouse or light industrial space in this part of Northeast Minneapolis, Northland draws from a working candidate pool of more than 40,000 people across the Twin Cities, screened for exactly this kind of work: assembly, distribution, fulfillment, and machine operation. Being based just a few miles north on Central Ave NE means a recruiter can be on-site the same day a need comes up, not routing the request through an office somewhere else in the metro.
Event staffing for venues like The 1893
The former Grain Belt brew house now operates as The 1893, an event venue built into the historic office building on Marshall Street. Venues like this need staff who can turn a private dining room, a meeting space, or a wedding suite into a working event on a specific date, not a standing weekly shift.
Northland staffs event roles across the Twin Cities: customer service, food service, hospitality, and the cleanup work that has to happen once a venue empties out. For a historic, architecturally distinct space like The 1893, that means workers who understand they’re representing the venue for the night, not just filling a shift. A venue with a fixed date and a hard deadline doesn’t have room for a staffing partner who’s still recruiting the week of the event.
Clerical and administrative staffing for the rehabilitated office space
The 1893 office building itself, along with the rest of the redeveloped Grain Belt complex, now houses office tenants working out of a rehabilitated 19th-century brewery building repurposed for modern commercial use. That kind of adaptive reuse is common across Northeast Minneapolis, where older industrial and commercial buildings have been converted into office space without losing their original character.
Office tenants in a building like this still need the same things any Twin Cities business needs: receptionists, administrative assistants, data entry support, and customer service staff who can start quickly when a role opens up. Northland’s clerical placements draw from the same local, screened candidate pool as its light industrial and event placements, which means a business in a converted riverfront office building gets the same speed and screening as a warehouse a few blocks away.
Why proximity matters on this stretch of Marshall Street
Marshall Street NE sits close enough to Northland’s Central Ave NE office that a recruiter familiar with this part of Northeast Minneapolis can respond quickly when a business here has an opening, whether that’s a same-day light industrial need or a booked event with no room for delay. A staffing partner routed through a call center somewhere outside the Twin Cities can’t tell you which candidates already know this stretch of the riverfront, or which local workers have handled a shift at a historic venue like The 1893 before. A Minneapolis-based team that already works this corridor can.
Northland staffs event roles across the Twin Cities: customer service, food service, hospitality, and the cleanup work that has to happen once a venue empties out. For a historic, architecturally distinct space like The 1893, that means workers who understand they’re representing the venue for the night, not just filling a shift. A venue with a fixed date and a hard deadline doesn’t have room for a staffing partner who’s still recruiting the week of the event.
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