Flooding leads to evacuation at IDS Center

Several floors of the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis were evacuated Wednesday.

Accesso, which owns the IDS Center, gave the following statement to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS regarding the incident:

“The safety of IDS Center tenants and visitors is our top priority. Following a routine replacement of our water meter by the City of Minneapolis yesterday, a water expansion tank in our chiller room overflowed, and this impacted some of our electrical equipment. Out of an abundance of caution, we have evacuated the impacted floors of the building, starting at the 26th floor, and turned off the power to that area to allow the electrical equipment to dry out.”

Accesso

The 57-story tower houses office and retail spaces but it’s unclear how many were affected by the incident.