Lawyers call on Minneapolis to lock down urban exploring sites after catastrophic falls by teens

Minneapolis attorneys are urging the city to lock down two well-known urban exploring properties as two teens continue a long road to recovery after falling from the vacant sites. Romanucci Blandin and co-counsel Kevin Riach of Riach Law say they are investigating the two incidents involving Madison Frey and Ash Ranallo-Korbel. According to the law firm, Frey was paralyzed on Sept. 25, 2025 after falling from the Upper Harbor Terminal along the Mississippi River, commonly known as Alien City. Less than a year later, Ranallo-Korbel fell from the out-of-service Checkerboard grain elevator at 37th Street East and Cheatham Avenue in Minneapolis, causing life-changing injuries. Lawyers are pushing the city of Minneapolis to secure both sites, saying that abandoned grain elevators and other buildings in Minneapolis have raised long-standing concerns about security and public safety. “The epidemic of injuries at abandoned grain elevator properties is common knowledge in Minneapo