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I'm running for one of three at large seats, and fortunately there are three good candidates.

There are 3 at-large Park Board seats, and the two longest serving commissioners in those seats (Young and Irwin) are retiring. The third, who is running again, told me there's too much affordable housing in Minneapolis... You can have a disproportionate influence on making sure we have a park board...

So much fenestration!

It doesn't seem unreasonable for Surdyk's to want to have recourse in case something falls off the crane and through their roof, and to know what that is before the crane is built. They're separate parcels under separate ownership.

The ICCM Inner City Church building (this thing: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.96482,-93.2651701,3a,60y,240.9h,85.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sa8kX39_UqJKKmFJjgfZsWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) on Park is getting a much needed facelift, adding some big windows facing the street. Aww I've always liked that fun...

What's up UrbanMSP? Devin Hogan here. I'm running for Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and would like to earn your support. I'm probably the first person to run for MPRB with freeway lids as part of their platform. Also, wouldn't it be great for the parks to put an "urbanist" in their...

So it's not a woonerf then. It's a gated driveway/parking court.

Crane truck and welders on site today. Maybe they are building the frame for a tower crane??

Yay? indeed.

FWIW I'm more likely to patronize this business than the one that was there before. I need a mattress. I don't have a car.

The concept plan will be presented to the LNA general membership meeting on Monday April 18. 6:30 pm, Painter Park.

Girard is your opportunity to build a REAL woonerf. I agree it's good for traffic circulation but we can calm it to the point where it's a sidewalk that cars can drive on. The walkway idea is brilliant but would require a lot of maintenance just to keep it functioning with our brutal freeze/thaw cyc...

I really like how it follows the curve in the road and allows for a green space buffer with the LRT tracks. Much better than pushing the whole building against the tracks.

Are any of you greater uptown folks on Nextdoor? It's the facebook for neighborhoods. The general consensus on there is that a hotel is good for uptown! but not this lot because it's south of Lake street which is not "uptown." Looks like I'll be going to the planning commission to add my s...

Can someone remind me how to contact the city to voice my concerns/opposition regarding this development - again - primarily against them not having to pay the park dedication fee unless the city requires them to come up with a better design for the green space they are proposing. Email the council...

I've seen that. I tried looking it up and I can't find anything about it. IS is just a renovation? I've been going to this location for a few years since I moved into the neighborhood. There used to be more employees working there on non-branch stuff (perhaps mortgages). They expanded their branch ...

The whole project because the neighbors are freaked out about the zoning change. The planning commission talked about R3 vs. OR1 and decided the commercial uses under OR1 are very very limited (daycare, after school tutoring, etc.). The neighbors are making it seem like a pawn shop will move in if t...

Great vacant corner lot for sale, Nicollet & 34th: http://www.edinarealty.com/landlots-for-sale/3345-Nicollet-Avenue-Minneapolis-MN-55408-154655217 Recommended strategy: buy and hold, try to acquire adjacent house or two (reaching the alley), sell to developer once the Kmart thing is further al...

The goods are on Youtube now. I still haven't finished watching. Did you make it Blaisdell Greenway? Video: https://youtu.be/f3i1LQhGbu8?t=3h8m35s I did, I was the first to testify. It was exciting to see Nick on the dais (and my neighbor Sam Rockwell). My first planning commission meeting and all ...

Take down the billboard, open the windows along Lake, and you'd have yourself a handsome building. My guess is they want to combine all the small spaces into a single larger one, which makes more sense for the way modern retail /restaurant economics works. They can likely afford to wait out for a t...

You're not missing anything - right now they're only proposing the renovation of the existing building and adding the garage. I don't think that precludes building the new building at some point in the future but it does make the immediate necessary zoning change easier to pass muster with the neigh...