Canal Park[3] is largely a conversion of an old warehouse district into restaurants, shops (especially those dealing in antiques and other novelties), cafés, and hotels. This conversion began in the 1980s as an attempt to use Duluth's rich industrial past, the decline of which had left the city in economic turmoil at the time, as an asset in a prospective tourist industry.
Until January 2017, Canal Park was the home of broadcast studios for four Red Rock Radio stations. The Duluth NBC affiliate KBJR is still located in Canal Park.