Boom Island founders buy 45th and Minnehaha, plan Mixed Culture Brewing

Veteran brewery operators Qiuxia and Kevin Welch have purchased the former One on One Bike Shop and begun building it out into a combination brewery, coffee shop, and possible bike shop called Mixed Culture Brewing," Longfellow Whatever reported on March 6, 2026. The parcel is the commercial corner at 45th and Minnehaha Ave S in Minneapolis, and the story names the new concept Mixed Culture Brewing.

Longfellow Whatever’s excerpt notes construction activity has already begun and sets a conditional timeline: "If all goes to plan, they hope to be open later this year." An Instagram post fragment also flagged the project, saying brewery operators "are building in the former One on One bike shop at 45th and Minnehaha, and could open later this year," though the Instagram excerpt did not include an account name or post date.

The founders bring a track record: Longfellow Whatever identifies the owners as the couple who founded Boom Island Brewing in 2011. The report also supplies personal background: "Qiuxia and Kevin were both professional French horn players when they met in 2000 at a horn conference in China. They soon married and moved to Minneapolis, where Qiuxia was attending graduate school." That chronology frames the Welch founders’ arc from musicians to veteran brewery operators.

The property is consistently described in the reporting as the former One on One Bike Shop at the corner of 45th and Minnehaha Ave S. The published excerpts do not include a street number, parcel ID, sale price, seller name, or deed details, and Longfellow Whatever’s excerpt contains subscriber-only language indicating additional details may be behind a paywall.

Planned uses in the Longfellow Whatever report are explicit: a combination brewery, a coffee shop, and a possible bike shop component. The language in both sources frames those elements as part of a single mixed-use operation, not as separate businesses with confirmed operators for each component; the bike shop portion remains described as "possible" rather than definitive.

Timing remains conditional: both Longfellow Whatever and the Instagram fragment set a target of opening later this year, with the Longfellow Whatever line "If all goes to plan, they hope to be open later this year" serving as the clearest published timeline. As of the March 6, 2026 report, build-out work is under way and the Welch founders, who launched Boom Island in 2011, are advancing Mixed Culture Brewing at the 45th and Minnehaha corner with a conditional opening goal later in 2026.