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Idea: focus on 5th St east to west and Robert St north to south as residential corridors, and forget about the rest.

5th St... great terminating vistas/amenities at St Paul Hotel/Rice Park and CHS Field. Passes Rice Park. Has good transit. Focus on: Conversion of Alliance Bank midcentury tower ...

Thanks for sharing the Lindeke article. He continues to be the best.

Since the article mentions it, Walgreens has the feel of being on its last leg these days and I will be completely unsurprised if they're the next domino to fall. Limited stock on the shelves, what is there is wildly disorganized ...

I work down here and yeah, it feels quite ominous to have an entire city block go dark essentially overnight. And there's really no source of help on the horizon: the Madison Equities properties continue to tank, any new investment at Central Station or the river is years away, the State has vacated ...

I have hazy memories of downtown Mpls from the year 2006 when I moved to the Twin Cities, but my best recall is this:
- Downtown core - absolutely hopping on nice summer weekdays, pretty quiet on weekends, weird vibe during the winter with everyone in the skyways. I think Marshall Fields was active ...

Fun to start a new topic:
Alatus is apparently working on a 250+ market rate unit development for the vacant lot currently used as a State Fair lot for a week in the summer, and a snow removal site in the winter that floods the sidewalk with disgusting snowmelt every April/May.

There will be a ...

Either way, I live in Midway and it is my route to anywhere in Bloomington or southwestern suburbs


This is going to veer off topic, and yeah, I know I'm a weirdo who avoids suburbs, but those places are way closer to me than they are to you and I like never go there. Do you make a lot of ...

I doubt it is just Dakota County commuters that use Ayd Mill. Maybe the slice of Dakota County that isn’t convenient to Hwy 52 or 77 use it to get to Mpls. Either way, I live in Midway and it is my route to anywhere in Bloomington or southwestern suburbs

^^^I think highly of this idea.

Strib reports that Ryan will be asking for $107 million in public funding to make their proposal happen.

1. That is a lot of money.
2. Maybe I am a bit checked out, but it seems this is the first explicit discussion of public funding that has been had for this site. I think everyone assumed the ...

I have noticed a lot more smoking on trains lately. It sucks. I don’t want the smokers to be thrown in jail for life or anything but some level of enforcement is welcome. Even if it is just pulling the offenders off the train and giving a warning.

I suspect that the actual number of people that ...

There was an article in the Midway Monitor about proposed developments directly across Snelling that were presented to the Union Park neighborhood group. I read quickly this morning as my pre-schooler demanded attention, so I think I’m in the ballpark but numbers may not be exactly on.

Development ...

A couple thoughts: this is in my neighborhood and I am relatively connected to the goings-on.

1. The stadium does feel extremely suburban at the moment. I’m a little disappointed in the skin - renderings showed as more translucent during the daytime, allowing the dramatic structure to show through ...

What is the projected ridership of the Gold Line? IIRC it is in the 5-7k range. A 2% increase in project budget that results in a 10-20% increase in ridership is a steal at twice the price. Why, exactly, wouldn’t we want to do this?

mattaudio wrote: April 17th, 2018, 9:01 pm Am I the only one who hates off-street parking lots where you pull in, aren't guaranteed to find a spot, and have to turn around to pull back out?

No, you are not the only one. This parking plan is a swing and a miss.

The growth along the Green Line corridor is beginning to reach pretty impressive proportions. Hopefully it starts moving deeper into St Paul soon.

So I have been riding the Green Line daily in St Paul for nearly four years now. I know the ins and outs of the system. I can tell when there's an especially experienced operator who knows when to accelerate and how to brake without making the ride jerky. I have been unquestionably the most sober ...

I know this building is right in the middle of lease-up, so judgment may be premature, but I am extremely unimpressed with what I'm seeing out there:

- Interior circulation is confusing, there isn't a great sense of how to move through the space, or your relationship with the outside world, or your ...

@mspbjhalter tweeted that MSP submitted 18 sites. What were our metro boosters thinking?! 🤦‍♂️


...they wanted to come off as desperate,clingy, and versatile? They should have mailed it day before the deadline on the back of an Arby's Napkin and given only 1 site.. I'm sure they would have ...

Can we all agree that maybe $7B is too much money to spend, but $0 is too little?

Given the awesome expansion possibilities on this line, it seems like a real mistake to build it out to operate in mixed traffic and only accommodate 1 car trains.