Opened in May 2007, the park was designed by landscape architect Tom Oslund and is owned by the city of Minneapolis.

It takes its inspiration from the Native American mounds found throughout Minnesota, and its name from Gold Medal flour, a product of General Mills.

The park, just east of the Guthrie Theater, gives the Mill District neighborhood some rare green space.

[1][2] Built on a strip of land next to the Guthrie Theater and the Mississippi River, the park features specially designed luminescent benches, a prominent 32-foot (9.8 m) mound, and mature trees brought in from as far away as New Jersey.

Starting in 2007, the William W. and Nadine M. McGuire Family Foundation leased the land for 10 years from the city of Minneapolis and the Guthrie, each of which owns about half the property.