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Nicollet Avenue is a major street in Minneapolis, Minnesota , as well as many of its suburbs. It passes through a number of locally well-known neighborhoods and districts, notably the restaurant-heavy Eat Street in south Minneapolis and the traffic-restricted Nicollet Mall in the city's downtown. It began as a military road between St. Anthony Falls and Fort Snelling . Nicollet Avenue was named for early 19th-century French explorer and mapmaker Joseph Nicollet , who led three expeditions in what is now Minnesota. The oldest section of the avenue is actually the Nicollet Mall in Downtown Minneapolis. Before 1968 (when the mall was constructed) Nicollet Avenue stretched from the Mississippi River to the Minnesota River Technically, the avenue begins at E Grant Street and continues in a north/south direction to W. 29th Street/Cecil Newman Lane, where it is interrupted by a controversial K-Mart store, and begins again at Lake Street, continuing through Richfield and Bloomington to 107th Street just north of the Minnesota River . Across the river, Nicollet begins again at Cliff Road West and goes a shorter distance to Eagan Drive. |
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