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I'm not disappointed -- that design was a terrible addition to a handsome building.

Pretty sure fintech is just a made up thing, right?

Thanks for the photos!

I remain suspicious that they'll eventually build out the rest of the site over to 11th, matching the massing of the plinth.

Yep, that's for sure true!

It just made me think that selling their legacy campus and moving to a few floors of a non-prestige building maybe means they've got other long term plans.

Maybe worth noting that they recently signed a bigger lease in suburban Atlanta.

One benefit is that small delays don't ripple into giant delays by the end of the route, with all of the bunching and other problems associated with it. It's also much easier to handle driver layovers, etc. You can also respond to asymmetrical demand on the two routes (in both frequency and equipmen...

What if the operational benefits of splitting the long aBRT pairs you all keep pushing for outweigh the benefits to the very small number of people who would actually continue along these routes, as opposed to the large majority having downtown as their destination or making a transfer to a differen...

From what I can tell with the site plans, it looks like access to the non-surface parking spaces must be accessed through the circulation of the 240 Hennepin project. My guess is that the new amenity deck will also be shared with 240 Hennepin.

The article also confirms that the construction type has switched from light gauge steel to concrete.

I'm not sure about all of the technical reasons why, but it seems like the lesson from the Hiawatha routing of the green line is that side-running (vs. center running) makes the signalling and traffic management much more complicated.

Trains in downtown Houston (!!) for instance, operate in an 80' ROW. This is a straw man. Losing one street in a downtown grid is entirely different than losing Broadway Avenue, which is the primary commercial street for North Minneapolis and has no comparable parallel street to pick up the slack. ...

I don't think that's true. The effective ROW west of Penn is something like 74', which is why the sidewalks there are are probably the worst of any section of Broadway. You may well be right -- I just quickly eyeballed it based on the presence of the medians, but looking more closely, it looks like...

The alternative to Broadway and Lyndale N, or at least part of it, would be to dig a short subway from Target Field perhaps to the end of the Broadway crescent when the street straightens out and heads almost due NW. You'd need a TBM to do this, and would have to excavate at least one station at Em...

Yes, the Lake Street station is really starting to take shape now, and this summer's closures at 494 are related to the construction of the Knox Ave tunnel, as near as I can tell.

There's a lot of retail space just south of here, much of which is vacant. I'm not sure that's a fair statement. There's quite a bit of storefront at this node that might appear vacant, but is in fact occupied by office uses. There are a couple of recent closures that have happened, and then there'...

No, it was much less engineering focused and more planning/design based. Had some fantastic imagery, as I recall. As near as I can figure, it was the plan by the Hodne/Stageberg Partners that is referenced here . My googling skills have hit a dead end though -- does the Planning Department have any ...

I've seen a planning document that the city commissioned back in the 1970's proposing daylighting much of the creek. Not sure if this pre-dated the I-94 construction that diverted most of the waterflow to the new tunnel?

Hey, speaking of actual pedestrian infrastructure, does anybody know if the UofM has decided to replace the "Big M" pedestrian suspension bridge that they took down a couple of years back?

Per this recent Strib article: MPD backers say that any cuts would only hurt the crime-fighting abilities of the department, which a little over a decade ago boasted an authorized strength of 916 cops but has shrunk by 28 in the ensuing years, despite the city’s growing population. A Star Tribune a...

Are we getting bots again? Seems like a few weird posts from new members showing up today.