Artspace Projects, Inc is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 in the United States

United States

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. The organization's goal is to provide affordable housing and practice space to artists and arts organizations

Not-for-profit arts organization

A not-for-profit arts organization is usually in the form of a not-for-profit corporation, association, or foundation. Such organizations are formed for the purpose of developing and promoting the work of artists in various visual and performing art forms such as film, sculpture, dance, painting,...

. The company both renovates older buildings for suitable use, and builds new ones. They have completed 18 projects with 12 planned or under construction. The organization was started in Minneapolis's warehouse district

North Loop, Minneapolis

The North Loop is a neighborhood of the Central community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The neighborhood is commonly known as the Warehouse District from the city's shipping hub years. It includes the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

in the late 1970s. It grew from advocacy group to development group and today is the nation's foremost artist housing organization.