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I know why Opus proposed what it proposed and honestly I like the design of the tower but I feel like we are getting a used Pontiac Grand Am of a project when this block has the ability to be a brand new Aston Martin. It's underwhelming, disappointing, and just sad all the way around.

Even if they selected the Duval proposal and for some reason it was not able to come through, what would stop the city from putting a stop to the "new" proposal. At the end of the day, they have almost more power than necessary. Because they would no longer own the land? The city would be...

This shows how little faith I now have in the city of Minneapolis from ever truly embracing the future. Yes, it's all the city's fault for a developer who overpromised and then couldn't deliver. "Dreaming, imagination, and creativity" doesn't get steel and glass out of the ground. He neve...

UP or bust at this point. It would be better to leave as a parking lot and rebid in the future than have Doran or Mortenson bland proposals built.

Over the past few weeks I have been thinking and scratching my head on where the Olympic Village would go. During the 2012 London games it housed 24,000 people then it was transform into low and middle income housing. It has to be relatively close to most of the venues and have great transit connect...

Over the past few weeks I have been thinking and scratching my head on where the Olympic Village would go. During the 2012 London games it housed 24,000 people then it was transform into low and middle income housing. It has to be relatively close to most of the venues and have great transit connect...

Question: With the Duval proposal having half of the block as a tower and the other as parking would it be possible to tear down the parking part in the future and build a tower in it's place?

With the Chamber Orchestra starting to "tune" the Ordway's new concert hall the past few days and the press getting some access to the space Pamela Espeland of Artspcape on MinnPost wrote there is 22 inch thick wall along 5th St to keep the traffic noise out of the Concert Hall. I don't kn...

I was at the Chamber Orchestra last night and at intermission I was able to look though the glass wall that divides the two theater lobbies. While the designers certainly took their styling cues from the current lobby I noticed a few differences. While the carper was blue in the new lobby is still b...

what does it represent

Freedom, never backing down, rising from the ashes, coming together in the face of adversity, etc. And yes George Pataki's Presidential ambition.

I can't think of any major Star Tribune sportswriter who doesn't have some affiliation with a local radio station, for example, but I can't think of one Pioneer Press guy who does. Bob Sansevere. But your point still proves true. I had to look up which radio station Sansevere has his own show on an...

The Freedom Tower is iconic because of the history of the site on which it sits and what that tower represents not because if it's design.

Iconic is a really high bat for anything to meet including a building. In my opinion for something to be iconic it has to be something that is burned into people brain that they will never forget. There aren't that many iconic buildings in the world. The Freedom Tower is iconic, the Statue of Libert...

While the U's pool is Olympic size the capacity isn't in the ballpark in terms of seating capacity. The pool in London sat 17,500 current the U's aquatics facility sits about 2,500. That's a huge amount of seats needed and short of knocking down the parking ramp next door I have not idea where they ...

Correct we would still need a new main stadium neither TCF or the Vikings as currently designed could accommodate a running track with out significant renovations. I would also guess the the Target Center would have to be replaced even after the renovation it's scheduled to under go. Outside of that...

But no one says "I'm batting one point zero zero zero," they say "I'm batting a thousand" They call it "batting one thousand" because saying 1.000 isn't fun and saying "batting one" isn't cool, but the two ways of showing in writing this parlance of baseball ...

Sounds good. I'm batting close to 1000.

Technically it's 1.000 but who's counting

I'm just guessing here but I can come up with very logical, simple reasons why the Polhad's would be involved with the MN United bid. 1. The family's development company, United Properties, is going to serve as the developer for the new Farmer Market's stadium and surrounding area. 2. The McGuire's ...

Don't want that pesky skyline stealing the shot. Believe it or not there is actually some truth to this in a basketball sense. Basketball players are use to having a relatively consistent shooting background behind the glass backboards. While there are variations in the different arena's it the Big...

I can't find the article right now but I remember reading not too long ago that the Ordway designed their new concert hall to be acoustically sealed so there would be no outside noise coming in. I'm not sure about the main theater but with the double set of doors going into the hall I would guess it...