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Yeah, I've always felt like the ridership imbalance on the north and south legs of the 4 was problematic. Maybe pairing Johnson with Cedar lines up better?

But would you really get that close to downtown Minneapolis and just scoot on by it? Or go Cedar to Washington to 3rd/Central and then somehow ...

Concerns raised by some folks in attendance were mostly about getting stuck behind a bus, since buses would be stopping in the lane (similar to all aBRT routes that run on streets with a single lane in each direction).

As I've noted before, this is a choice. Stopping buses in the traffic lanes ...

Katie may or may not be doing great so far, but this is pretty basic stuff that Hempel probably paid a lobbyist to write and plopped it on her desk for her to put her sponsorship signature on.

That's got to be the most half-baked development proposal I've ever seen. Like, I've seen submittals for new residential garages with more thought than that.

It doesn't seem to acknowledge the crazy retaining wall that's existing, nor does the building's siting do anything to respond to the best ...

I mean, it can both be true that Andy Brehm is a breathless Republican hack taking cheap shots at St. Paul, and also that the St. Paul (and Minneapolis) city council are more concerned with performative BS that makes the left online fringe feel good while ignoring basic good governance issues.

I'd be awfully surprised if that happened. St. Paul historically gets more than its fair share of state largesse for projects like this, and especially now with their downtown suffering, I just can't see the legislature supporting a Wild move.

I do think it would be great if our mid-sized metro ...

The Whipple building is a terrible housing conversion candidate. The "tower" portion of the building is about 240' per side. Buildings custom built for housing want to be roughly 1/3 to 1/4 of that width. You'd realistically need to carve a giant atrium out of the middle of the building to make it ...

It sounded like the Boom Island marina was going to be closed all summer long while they performed this work. I think once the work is completed, they could return there (assuming they don't go out of business in the meantime).

I wonder if that's going to put the Minneapolis Water Taxi out of commission. I feel like they've been feuding with the Park Board for a few years, but it would be a shame to lose them.

Google Earth historical aerials show that up until 2018, most of this lot was surface parking (presumably for Minnesota Center).

I'll be impressed if they can get this built. It feels like a higher priority than the RiversEdge project.

With enough public money, anything is possible.

This is kind of a silly thing that I'm sure nobody pays attention to, but are "likes" a thing that can easily be enabled? Sometimes there are posts that I appreciate, but don't feel like I have anything meaningful to add on to with my own post.

Those Lowry options are all pretty terrible. I know it's not a landmark, but it would be a bummer to lose the old Stasiu's building and completely give up the street face here.

Also, medians serve a purpose for pedestrians, but it feels like the plan is leaning too much on them. Streets with ...

I feel like there was lots of speculation when the St. Paul post office moved to the Eagan facility that it could eventually handle all operations for the entire metro area. Maybe the extra work load of e-commerce changed that math, but it definitely doesn't make sense to be pushing all of those ...

...And despite the nigh on impossible construction conditions (high financing rates, construction cost inflation, spotty demand) someone is actually moving forward with plans to build a 46 story office tower there.

It's a good thing nobody is considering a bunch of tariffs on building materials ...

There's a lot of excitement and spectacle in a headline number like "Building sells for 97% off" but I'd love if someone would dare to ask "was the building ever worth the original 100% price to anyone other than the sucker who bought it?"


The valuation of office buildings (or apartments, or ...

Just for posterity, it sold for three cents on the dollar. Or a 97% discount.

https://www.startribune.com/ameriprise- ... /601214428

What if... the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts used the building as a satellite location? They've pretty much built out they're existing site (or honestly, they've over built it, filling in several atriums that should have remained open).

Seattle split their primary and Asian collections; having ...

mattaudio wrote: January 28th, 2025, 7:43 am So why is this under serious consideration now but was not a decade ago when the state and city spent $5 million per block to rebuilt Nicollet?

Huh. Has anything major happened in the last five years? Nah.