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Hopkins city council considers (again) requests for proposals for a batch of tiny downtown lots.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/09/ho ... own-sites/

As a Hopkins resident I believe that ask back then was to at least investigate a Mainstreet route. Were one proposed, there could not have been room for driving nor (most importantly) parking. Businesses wailed heavily when the current redesign dropped a handful just to put in the shitty corner bump...

Duluth may be growing population?

https://www.startribune.com/is-populati ... /601143248

Decades long transit planning is a really crappy method.

https://www.startribune.com/maplewood-c ... /601141779

(I’d edit the thread title, but it has been too long and I can’t make that change.) The Burlington/Micro Center property is for sale https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/09/06/micro-center-site-redevelopment.html Microcenter apparently had a long term lease, but Burlington wants to downs...

Oof. Big win for anti-transit.

Recommending the plans for Southtown be approved.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/09/bl ... own-plans/

Also an aerial drawing of the proposal shown.

It must be shared.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s ... /601126815

Is the main issue pedestrian safety? One article stated, "“There’s been three fatalities in three years between 2016 and 2019, and there were six fatalities in the six years before that,” Blanchard said on Tuesday." It seems like there are other ways to fix this than converting the whole ...

Yup. Very first paragraph.

“JCPenney at Eden Prairie Center has closed for good as the mall’s owner floats plans for the store's redevelopment.”

Also…

“The redevelopment would involve demolishing the JCPenney site and repurposing its parking lot.”

Concept to redevelop the JCPenney section of Eden Prairie Center.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... pment.html

6-story apartment proposal, on the mostly surface parking lot of the offices on the Southeast corner of Park Place Blvd and Gamble Drive. 223 unit. Maybe coffee shop on ground level. And another grocer? Honestly over due for housing to appear at the south edge of West End. https://www.bizjournals.co...

Luxury condos proposed for 44th and Vincent.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/08/de ... den-hills/

In my memory there was once a change in owner like in the last 5-8 years.

The Opus station area site directly across from the station is moving ever slowly forward. The land sale has gone through.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/08/ap ... -for-5-8m/

It is nearly exactly halfway between both Lowry and Broadway.

In time it could also be linked to the NE 18th Ave trail.

Thought about placing this in the St. Louis Park general topics, but the SLP city council voted 6-1 in favor of the Dakota Ave route for the regional trail. https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_sailor/community/stlouispark/st-louis-park-council-votes-6-1-in-support-of-trail-along-dakota-avenue/article...

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?

Lumber Exchange could get a redevelopment that also includes some residential.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... hange.html

Checked in and saw the urgent note. I’m ready for a Patreon if one is setup.