Nick Halter

It’s been nearly five years since the people in green shirts started roaming downtown Minneapolis streets, helping visitors find their way and keeping sidewalks clean.

The city is close to extending the life of the Downtown Improvement District, which is the nonprofit organization that employs the green-clad ambassadors.

But some downtown property owners in the Warehouse District who pay for the service aren’t happy with the DID and have raised the idea of building a protest that would dissolve the organization.