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They're a couple floors deep on the excavation here now.

21st Century Bank is fully relocated to Main Street and appears to be open already.

The 1 story cinderblock Harris Canvas building on site came down last week.

The walls were brought down to roughly the point they're currently at a number of months ago. Guessing some of the material at the top damaged by fire was just too far gone to safely leave in place.

In other area news, the distillery next to Surly has been under construction for a few weeks now.

Would happily chip in financially, as I'm not going to be much use on the technical side.

Bachelor Farmer must have been going under before all this. Their family is worth almost $2B. They could have saved it if they wanted to.

Still a shame.

The houses in question are all in a very small stretch, between 27th and Lake. Could still fully close the rest.

Why is West River Parkway open to vehicles at all? It doesn't provide access to anything that other roads don't. Just close it all.

Noooo!

This is a very concerning aspect of the Ford Site that I had no idea existed until recently- a huge potentially toxic waste dump on the river floodplain: https://fmr.org/river-corridor-and-land-use-updates/area-c-overlooked-ford-site It's separate from the area being redeveloped, so it shouldn't hav...

Very cool apartment building for the former Perkins site in Seward- six stories with a greenhouse/ hydroponic farm on the roof: https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... Apartments

Apartments for the other half of the block are back. Eight whole stories. What a waste.

https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... 207th%20St

Simpson Housing planning to demo current facility in favor of new purpose-built 5 story structure: https://www.simpsonhousing.org/announci ... er-project

Doesn't look like Surdyk's is going anywhere anytime soon, despite all of the tall new neighbors:
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/lo ... /567460711

Some silos being redeveloped without being demolished:
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... tubes.html

Unrelated, but have heard some rumors starting to float around the neighborhood that the strip mall hosting Micro Center may not be long for this world...

A slight shame, as I was really looking forward to taking the train to Micro Center.

Decent sized apartment building proposed near future Blue Line in North: https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... errace.pdf

Looks like the tower crane base is going in.

Please just make the waterfall look like a waterfall and not a dam again. The problem with the falls is that they're ugly, not that we can't see them.

Yiiiiikes.

If there's not a way to make this project happen on a space that's already mostly surface lot without preserving at least some of the existing small-scale buildings, it's not worth building.