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- February 28th, 2018, 10:56 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Crime
- Replies: 198
- Views: 59015
Re: Crime
Who shot the warehouse district? http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2018/march/who-shot-the-warehouse-district It is funny that they are trying to pass off the '80s as some sort of golden idyll for the Warehouse District. The stuff that used to happen on Hennepin Ave back then makes today's concerns l...
- February 20th, 2018, 7:08 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Arby’s Island
- Replies: 211
- Views: 55218
Re: Arby’s Island
I think this would be a great place for a park or a plaza. It is in the middle of a prime commercial district and it is only a matter of time before it is surrounded by midrises on all sides. In Europe that would be a classic place to put a square or piazza. It would be a public space where people ...
- February 19th, 2018, 10:02 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Arby’s Island
- Replies: 211
- Views: 55218
Re: Arby’s Island
I think this would be a great place for a park or a plaza. It is in the middle of a prime commercial district and it is only a matter of time before it is surrounded by midrises on all sides. In Europe that would be a classic place to put a square or piazza. It would be a public space where people w...
- January 22nd, 2018, 8:31 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Rex 26 - 2601 Lyndale Ave S
- Replies: 224
- Views: 56601
Re: Rex 26 - 2601 Lyndale Ave S
Apparently the only kind of regulation which currently applies to pile drivers is you have to hire a structural engineer to determine what level of vibration would cause damage to nearby structures and property and stay below that level. There is zero consideration of the impact on peoples lives. T...
- January 18th, 2018, 5:33 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Amazon's New HQ?
- Replies: 280
- Views: 41037
Re: Amazon's New HQ?
No. I think if anything, having an existing concentration of retail talent would have worked in our favor, given that Amazon is willing and able to siphon talent. It may have worked in the other direction. Amazon is notorious in Seattle for being a high turnover employer that burns people out. Mayb...
- December 20th, 2017, 8:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1350434
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
This debate is tired. There are legitimate critiques of the project, and there are legitimate upsides as well. Whether or not they outweigh each other is beside the point. The point right now is that once we do collectively decide something like this is worthwhile--whether or not we get that decisi...
- December 16th, 2017, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Mill City Quarter - 300 South 2nd Street
- Replies: 201
- Views: 57686
Re: Mill City Quarter - 300 South 2nd Street
10 year lease term. Yikes. http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/300-S-2nd-St-Minneapolis-MN/5237025/ Most businesses would balk at anything less than 10 years. You don't want to go through the work and expense of opening a new business only to be out bid on your space a few years later. This is doubly tr...
- December 6th, 2017, 8:43 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Rex 26 - 2601 Lyndale Ave S
- Replies: 224
- Views: 56601
Re: Rex 26 - 2601 Lyndale Ave S
One summer I lived next to a pipeline that was being constructed in St Paul (along a BNSF rail corridor). It took the entire summer for the pile driver to go from 50 feet on one side of our house to 50 feet on the other. From 7 in the morning to 8 at night every single day. I feel your pain. You don...
- December 2nd, 2017, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Roof Depot site
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14509
Re: Roof Depot site
Aquaponics is something that is far more suited to low value rural land. It is essentially fish farming and then using the waste water for hydroponics.
- November 10th, 2017, 6:27 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: [Archived] Uptown Retail & Restaurant News 2012-17
- Replies: 1427
- Views: 261666
Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News
Vegetarian food is significantly cheaper to make than meat based dishes. They should be able to run a much lower food cost than most other restaurants which means they have more money for the rent. This could work. Certainly true, but also true that they can't charge as much for these dishes. And l...
- November 10th, 2017, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
- Replies: 581
- Views: 91333
Re: Nye's Polonaise Room - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue
I posted this at SSC but I think it bears reposting here: I hesitate to post rumors here because of all that has transpired, but I heard an interesting piece of information today about Nye's through the restaurant industry grapevine from somebody who would know. Apparently Nye's is closing because ...
- November 7th, 2017, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: [Archived] Uptown Retail & Restaurant News 2012-17
- Replies: 1427
- Views: 261666
Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News
Vegetarian food is significantly cheaper to make than meat based dishes. They should be able to run a much lower food cost than most other restaurants which means they have more money for the rent. This could work.
- November 1st, 2017, 10:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1350434
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
I was just reading a Strib article from 2008. They were talking about this line being done by 2015.
Can we call this a fiasco yet?
Can we call this a fiasco yet?
- October 25th, 2017, 10:13 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Hiawatha-Lake - Minnehaha - Downtown Longfellow
- Replies: 323
- Views: 394652
Re: Hi-Lake - Minnehaha Mall (Target, Cub, etc.) - Downtown Longfellow
The deeper problem is that no place wants wants to be the place where the homeless congregate, but they exist so where do they go? If they aren't going to be allowed to allowed under the bridge they will just be doing the same thing somewhere else. The cycle began with the demolition of the flophous...
- October 13th, 2017, 6:42 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
- Replies: 379
- Views: 96830
- October 13th, 2017, 5:28 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
- Replies: 379
- Views: 96830
Re: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
Although I like Dehn an awful lot as a person, he's much too beholden to the Our Revolution peeps. NLP has not demonstrated any interest in actually governing. My issue with Dehn comes from his call to disarm the police. It is true that the Minneapolis police have a long history of being a bad depa...
- October 13th, 2017, 1:10 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
- Replies: 379
- Views: 96830
Re: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
People I know (and know to be honest) in the restaurant industry are saying things like this about Jacob Frey: One of my biggest regrets of the tip credit battle was failing to record a conversation with him and several industry professionals, in which he told us that he thinks an increase in minimu...
- October 12th, 2017, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
- Replies: 379
- Views: 96830
Re: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
I'm going to vote 1. Hoch, 2. Hodges, nobody third. On a national level I would be considered on the left side of the Democratic party, but on the local level I think the Minneapolis DFL is going down the rabbit hole - obsession with identity politics, beholden to the activist fringe, more intereste...
- October 7th, 2017, 9:35 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Mozaic (all phases)
- Replies: 581
- Views: 100502
Re: Mozaic (all phases)
You better not be talking about Soho Cafe. Their Greek Chicken Pita and Gyros are really good, and super cheap. Plus they are open late.
I would really like to see something go into the SOHO Pizza lot.
- October 4th, 2017, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
- Replies: 379
- Views: 96830
Re: Minneapolis Mayoral Election 2017
This is a challenging election for mayor for me because I don't really like any of the candidates. One of the things that seems to be going wrong in Minneapolis politics right now is that it is a city full of left wing voters who are frustrated by national politics and are pouring their frustrations...