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- February 6th, 2025, 4:23 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
- Replies: 403
- Views: 167090
Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
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.
- February 4th, 2025, 3:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1421
- Views: 719632
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
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 ...
Also, medians serve a purpose for pedestrians, but it feels like the plan is leaning too much on them. Streets with ...
- February 4th, 2025, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Federal Building & Post Office redevelopment speculation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 561
Re: Federal Building & Post Office redevelopment speculation
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 ...
- February 4th, 2025, 2:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Federal Building & Post Office redevelopment speculation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 561
- February 3rd, 2025, 11:48 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935801
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
...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 ...
- February 3rd, 2025, 11:47 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935801
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
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 ...
- February 2nd, 2025, 12:32 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935801
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Just for posterity, it sold for three cents on the dollar. Or a 97% discount.
https://www.startribune.com/ameriprise- ... /601214428
https://www.startribune.com/ameriprise- ... /601214428
- January 29th, 2025, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Washington Square - 20, 100, 111 Washington Avenue S
- Replies: 61
- Views: 23258
Re: Washington Square - 20, 100, 111 Washington Avenue S
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 ...
Seattle split their primary and Asian collections; having ...
- January 28th, 2025, 11:33 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1488
- Views: 648863
Re: Nicollet Mall
Huh. Has anything major happened in the last five years? Nah.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?
- January 27th, 2025, 4:54 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics
- Replies: 623
- Views: 1247674
Re: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics
Isn't that actually the Glendale Townhomes section of Prospect Park? I could be misreading the map, but the East Bank campus area appears to be Tier 3 to me.
Good catch.
Still, Glendale is only 184 units of housing. Excluding the new Greystar building with over 600 units by itself, there are ...
- January 27th, 2025, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics
- Replies: 623
- Views: 1247674
Re: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics
So, I after looking at the Nicollet Mall redesign options, I had to look up what a TEP score was. To save you all some googling , it stands for Transportation Equity Priority and is a way to direct transportation investment based on the demographics of the population living in different areas ...
- January 19th, 2025, 10:00 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Dark Mode?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8771
- January 14th, 2025, 2:12 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1145
- Views: 429313
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
The four units/acre they're complaining about here sounds like nothing.
https://www.startribune.com/met-council-twin-cities-suburbs-density/601205294?utm_source=gift
But my southwest Minneapolis block, with small lot sizes, efficient layouts, and a smattering of duplexes nets out to just 6 units ...
https://www.startribune.com/met-council-twin-cities-suburbs-density/601205294?utm_source=gift
But my southwest Minneapolis block, with small lot sizes, efficient layouts, and a smattering of duplexes nets out to just 6 units ...
- January 8th, 2025, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 415
- Views: 192000
Re: Interstate 94
I think something like the Klyde Warren Park in Dallas is realistically kind of the best case scenario we could be hoping for, but notice that the adjacent land uses are very high density, high value in order to justify the outlay for new greenspace on the landbridge.
- January 3rd, 2025, 11:52 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935801
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Without reading the article behind the paywall, I'm curious if this building's adjacency to the federal courthouse raises any concerns for security. There are recent examples in Chicago where perceived security issues have doomed viable historic structures.
- December 31st, 2024, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 415
- Views: 192000
Re: Interstate 94
I am not an expert, but I believe that tunnels also require ventilation for smoke evacuation in case of a fire. There are lots of other issues with life safety that pop up with tunnels. The aforementioned blast design, emergency egress paths, etc.
- December 30th, 2024, 2:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 415
- Views: 192000
Re: Interstate 94
Just a reminder, freeway caps are really expensive! How much of our limited transportation dollars do we want to spend on these things?
Relevant to the Target Field plaza example, its extent is basically maxed out (the biggest it can be without being considered a tunnel and requiring blast design ...
Relevant to the Target Field plaza example, its extent is basically maxed out (the biggest it can be without being considered a tunnel and requiring blast design ...
- December 18th, 2024, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 415
- Views: 192000
Re: Interstate 94
Good. It's truly ridiculous that they've entertained this nonsense plan for so long.
- December 17th, 2024, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935801
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
It also means that it will a long long time before any new office towers will pencil out.
- December 16th, 2024, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5418
- Views: 1462771
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Until that happens, the hospital will have to run a shuttle. Ideally, there would be a call button right at the station platform to summon the hospital shuttle. It's a short enough driving distance that it could just be on-demand, there seemingly wouldn't be any benefit to running a shuttle on a ...