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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

Korh wrote:Also correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this put it right in front of the nine mile trail

Right across the street, yup.

The fly through video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXHc64zJNQ

Seems like this would end up being the Nine Mike Creek regional trail crossing too. Not just a neighborhood crossing.

Not that that justifies the cost. But I could see that as added reason for selling it as in investment that makes regional use more attractive than just the adjacent developer.

That site had “low” (relative to Edina) income apartments proposed a few years back.

The townhome neighbors cried loudly.

They’d probably cry about a convenience store too.

As a suburban Hopkins resident who drives, I welcome our Kwik Trip overlords to take on the boredom of Holiday/Safeway. My ...

Retrofitting pedestrian tunnels in the news with Edina moving closer to a $20M tunnel under France

https://www.startribune.com/edina-france-avenue-pedestrian-tunnel/601517917

Internally I’m grumbling over the tunnel as “costly” or just a “benefit to developers”

I wonder if $20M is in the realm of ...

Axios on it.

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/11/17/20-washington-avenue-building-sold

“Tepley, who told Axios he hopes to unveil his plans in the coming months, said he's pursuing historic tax credits to covert the six-story, 182,000-square-foot building into something besides the ...

20 Washington Square sold for re-use?

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -sale.html

This is the property sold at a sheriffs sale?

https://tcbmag.com/west-hotel-commutato ... iffs-sale/

Was it some Cold War era project to with regard to bomb shelters or linking shelters?