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Katie has been doing great so far in the legislature. Glad to see this.

Article in today's Strib fleshing out details. Now proposing a new behavioral health building and decommissioning the non-brutalist structures of the main hospital.

https://www.startribune.com/three-billi ... /601219584

Thoughts on why turnover has been that high?


Sorry for the delay, I'm not on here much. My outside perspective is it appears that the mayor has fostered a toxic environment of cronyism and retaliation. This has spilled out into the public with things like the attempted Heather Johnson COO ...

Nonwhite people are turning away from democrats because the perception is democrats don't stand for them outside of a transactional relationship. This is not a new phenomenon and is not caused by saying "latinx." Many immigrant groups are now established in 3rd and 4th generations and moving to the ...

I think it's extremely clear that this would have, in fact, helped. There were double digit swings towards Trump in urban areas all over the country. Local politics in big cities is largely organized as a hobby for professional class progressives that normal people are barely aware of, so the ...

Graco Park now open. Across 8th Ave NE/Plymouth Ave bridge from Boom Island. Looks pretty good and has some neat stormwater retention features. Building to open next year.

Yet another survey for reconnecting Nicollet. They have a full block between Nicollet and 1st set aside for a park next to the greenway https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FG28XQ3

Butter Bakery has a picture of a KFC on a bulletin board that says "Remember When." So it was somewhere in Kingfield but I don't recognize the building.

More condo development is good, and glad they were able to pencil out something that didn't require variances.

That said, lol @ "The homes are targeted to condo buyers who want to settle down in a neighborhood setting as opposed to downtown or Uptown." I understand that Uptown is not a market for ...

A new bridge across the Mississippi always seemed to catch the ire of the Friends of the Mississippi, right?

Have they chimed up about it?


The survey is down but the two concepts presented had to do with raising the height of the water. Would this be their complaint? Maybe it has to do with ...

I thought this was pretty interesting: "Minneapolis, he said, requires a full site plan approval to get a building permit which takes a long time and has no public financing tools for office conversions. St. Paul, on the other hand, views these conversions as tenant improvement projects, which ...

Amazing. I'm a longtime patient at Southside community health center and love that place to pieces. Scott's donation to PPL should also close some financing gaps for projects in the works.

Strib article: https://www.startribune.com/mackenzie-scott-donations-minnesota-nonprofits-philanthropy ...

Presentation on city department options for the former Third Precinct coming up at today's council Committee of the Whole https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download ... shared.pdf

Wells Fargo DID end up listing their northeast branch and adjacent parking lot https://members.catylist.com/api/images ... 3_002_.pdf

Is the 1st the only one with a substation? That one is on University across from Surdyk's.

Silophant wrote: October 27th, 2023, 1:10 pm Honestly don't care so much what happens to the interior of the building(s), but if the loggia and elevated walkway facing the river could be reopened (were they ever opened in the first place?), that would be huge.

Never opened because of 9/11. The terrorists won :`(

Someone who happened to be sitting at the bar at Red Cow asked the owners when WedgeLive posted about it. Project to come eventually but staying a vacant lot for now. https://x.com/Komrad_Iron/status/170501 ... 88750?s=20

Here's the packet, goes in front of the planning commission Monday 9/18 https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... f%20Report

When the closure was announced back in May, the biz journal article said they weren't planning to sell the property, which I found surprising. The Elliot Park redevelopment and soon 31st/Nicollet ones are pretty great, though those include the branch reopening.

This property is for sale on loopnet https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/228-S-1 ... /22311993/

Apparently this is zoned for 50 stories? Property brochure has some renderings.