December 2025
Celebrate Hennepin: Get Your Holiday Passport
South Hennepin is lighting up for the holidays with a monthlong celebration featuring more than 70 businesses, 50 events and a special holiday passport full of deals and prizes. Neighbors, volunteers and small businesses have teamed up to revive the spirit of Uptown. Grab your passport, join the festivities and help make Holidays on Hennepin an annual tradition.
Let There be Light!
"What a lift to the spirits it is to see lights strung in the trees at Franklin and Hennepin and all along the avenue that endured the two-year onslaught of construction. What a gift that downtown’s holiday lights now extend all the way to Uptown, a sign of unity and renewal..."
Holidays on Hennepin: A Monthlong Celebration of Uptown’s Reopening
Holidays on Hennepin will brighten the corridor from Nov. 28 to Jan. 1 with lights, events, and a business passport program celebrating the long-awaited reopening of Hennepin Avenue South.