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^it's also the terminology Boeing employees themselves will use. It may be a bit of inside jargon, but it's certainly not being cute...

I brought up the Country Bar yesterday as empty. Today driving by I notice the For Lease sign is down and windows are covered (not sure how long that's been the case).

Is there something known in the works there?

^Country Bar as well (since counting LynLake)

But that's on a $/sq. ft. basis, on a perentage basis aren't they roughly the same (and it looks like SFH may have even recovered a little stronger)?

Another :( ... http://www.startribune.com/local/291529131.html "Authorities have released a sketch of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman along Interstate Hwy. 35 south of Duluth late at night last week after the victim stopped to help him with what she thought was a dis...

Not looking at it right now, but iirc they are conditonally allowed in C4 and one of the downtown service districts, but there are also some pretty restrictive development standards. Edit: They're conditional in C4 and B4C. 250' buffer from R and OR, 500' from schools, day cares, libraries, and par...

So let's get to the important stuff, roughly how many feet tall will this be?

Are we really going with the "It's never affected me, so it's clearly not a problem at all" argument here? Even the lowest estimate says 300 Million birds (Highest estimate, 1 billion) are killed by buildings each year in NA. How many are killed per year by house cats? What's being done a...

Putting oneself in a 1957 mindset, its pretty easy to see why the existing alignment was chosen. Oh well...

With no obvious champion & plenty of opponents, this seems likely to drift into a coma. Maybe not actually 'die', but certainly doesn't have a bright prognosis at this point.

...sure glad we spent $80 million building Target Field Station next to, ...errr, Target Field Station.

Architecture aside, though, the visibility of the Freedom Tower makes it one of the most identifiable structures in New York, which means it's iconic, no? Certainly true. Imagine the picture above without the freedom tower. My guess is over 90% of the U.S. population would have no idea what city it...

It costs $30 to visit the Top of the Rock. Just the viewing platform. If you can get $30 from people to ride an elevator, you must be some kind of draw...

I hear a lot of talk (here and in the press) about how the market probably 'can't support' the Duval proposal. But I find it hard to believe that any real analysis would support that conclusion. I'm not inclined to do the actual match right now, but think of all the square footage of all types added...

To condemn a first attempt at a market in comparison of centuries of European tradition is a little little like taking a toddler off a trike and throwing them on a road bike and expecting them to commute to pre school. I think it's pretty lame, but I'll concede it should get better in the future. T...

^You think he's wrong? I think he's right on. It's half-a***d. Like whoever was in charge didn't really care. Pretty embarrassing to the city, actually.

Put a fork in it. Tevlin just absolutely skewered the Market on the Strib site.

I like how they make the train barely visible in each one. I'm guessing that was intentional.

How many of the residents of Pillsbury & Schmidt will have vouchers? Probably none. By only accepting "artists," it's possible to screen out the "undesireable" (Somali, large family, other minority) tenants. While I'm sure the spirit is in the right place, you could make a p...

There's probably marketing research on this kind of thing, but whenever I feel like an event is 'spending money to spend money' my rip-off meter goes off the charts and I stay away hard. Isn't this approach basically what killed the Taste of Minnesota? Charge to keep riff-raff out, but end up killin...

I haven't been to Bogart's yet because it's always closed when I roll by as well, although I get the distinct impression they are closed because they've run out of donuts!