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MOUNDS VIEW, Minn. — For more than five decades, drivers on Highway 10 got glimpses of the 30-foot statue standing high above the city of Mounds View.
It was taken down and placed into storage in 2018.
“Unfortunately, the base of her had rotted out and she started sinking into the roof, and so they had to pull her down,” Jordan Reed, executive chef at the Mermaid, said. “She was becoming actually more of a hazard than anything.”
That was until 2023 when an agreement was reached — championed by now-Mayor Zach Lindstrom — to buy the statue for a dollar.
“The cool thing was is we sold the mermaid to the city of Mounds View for $1 and then we will be buying back the mermaid for that dollar after it gets restored,” Reed said.
