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https://www.startribune.com/hopkins-development-blake-road-light-rail/601886416

The watershed district has probably poisoned their reputation with me forever with their holding Hopkins hostage with keeping the site blighted. Years of input flushed down the drain with their demand for a whole reset ...

That does seem like a ton of bull shit that demolition was allowed before it was clearly going to happen.

MCWD has been very tight lipped about this entire thing and as a Hopkins resident they have left a very bitter opinion of their operating board.

In the upcoming city council agenda, there is a proposal to purchase the remaining 325 Cold Storage site from MCWD as a way to move the stalled redevelopment along.

“Through settlement discussions, city staff have concluded the only path forward for the current vision to be realized and for the ...

I read in a recent SunSailor there’s a proposal to demolish the vacant Bremer Bank (by the Knollwood Target, and build 200 units of affordable apartments.

Nice location. On the creek, across from a Target and Aldi. On the 17 bus. 1 block from the North Cedar Lake Trail.

That’s a lot.

Though there really are a dense group of at grade crossing between Vernon and Alabama. All through residential.

I grew up 2 blocks from here. But I head the current use pattern has a bunch running late at night.

Finance and Commerce has a wrap up on the current state of Saint Louis Park’s station area redevelopments. Plus a little more odds and ends.

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/06/st ... velopment/

Classic cul de sac suburban-style nonsense.

But will there be a ped/bike cut through?

June 16 ceremonial ground breaking for the Footprint development on Mainstreet. 40-ish units. Glad to see this infill on a batch of vacant lots.

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/06/fo ... y-hopkins/

Both very welcome advancements for the area. I was bothered the Oxford and Louisiana intersection was left out of the Louisiana reconstruction a few years back. Glad it had not been left out for extended years like the stretch of Excelsior between Louisiana and Blake.

And it always felt like the ...

What a stupid bureaucratic way to make a project die silently.

Wedgelive posted that Frey plans to halt getting city council approval for city street redesigns.

https://wedgelive.com/mayor-frey-taking ... y-council/

Fantastic! Shoulda been done and ready before the lanes were built.

But I’ll take it now, too!

There’s a proposal to tune the Idaho Stop law that was passed in 2023.

https://www.fox9.com/news/idaho-stop-mn-bicyclists-required-stop-yellow-traffic-lights-new-bill-march-2026

I guess there have been concerns about yellow lights and bike riders, and driver behavior of speeding up through yellow ...

The new campus in Dayton is progressing.

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/03/graco-global-headquarters-dayton-french-lake/

“The building will rise on part of a 27.6-acre site between Brockton Lane North and West French Lake Road. The project site is a vacant Graco-owned parcel between two ...

Demolition permits for northern most building on the old Opus HQ site. Seems like getting the area ready for future redevelopment near the LRT station even though it’s such a new building.

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/03/former-opus-hq-minnetonka-demolition-redevelopment/

“The owner plans to ...

The site of the Holiday gas station at the NWCorner of 100 and Minnetonka blvd got approval for 33 units.

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/02/st ... onka-blvd/

A new shot at the Wooddale station

https://finance-commerce.com/2026/03/st ... partments/

Hmm.

Yeah I wish this could be paused until conditions change. But it’d probably take over half a decade or more.

I like the Trellis proposal though of the two.

MNDOT project for 280 confirms intent to close left turn into Broadway as part of project.

https://content.govdelivery.com/account ... ns/3df5b61