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Is there an amount of bad job that the school district could do that would result in negative electoral consequences for the school board? The experience of basically every big city school district over the past fifty years suggests that there is not really a bottom.


The school board is another ...

I'm not sure. It does look like they're repainting the whole strip mall, so maybe nothing specific with that spot?

While, yes, you absolutely could buy the IDS for less than it would cost to build a new comparable tower, I think the talk of buying it for "pennies on the dollar" are overblown. The IDS is still one of the premiere office blocks in the upper midwest and has comparatively low vacancy rates.

That ...

Yeah, four stories of painted cement board lap siding sitting on top of some cheap brick in this locations is a big disappointment.

HiawathaGuy wrote: June 22nd, 2026, 1:07 pm ~ Name to be Iconic Plaza.

Definitely not going to connect this to the existing road four feet away.

And it always felt like the massive expanse of the Sam’s Club parking lot was ripe for development. The big question is how much parking the developers will go for despite being dozens of feet from the future LRT. The site will not permit underground, due to the high water table and underground ...

I hereby retract my statement in the Local Politics thread that the Minneapolis legislative delegation were not focused on the really important matters for the city.

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36" Water Main Structural Renewal!

But seriously, it does feel like Minneapolis got the short straw here. Is that because our legislative delegation is distracted by lots of progressive bright shiny objects rather than the business of legislating? Who's to say?

Any bit of late night transit service, especially serving downtown would be appreciated. The fact that the last light rail train out of downtown is before 11:30 is ever disappointing as you have to sprint out of a concert or event to catch the last train or you're plain out of luck.


Does ...

I know we like to crap on freeways, and cars are bad. But the 394 stub into downtown, serving the ABC ramps, is a pretty painless way of getting people in and out of downtown. If we're going to continue to have a 20,000 seat arena attracting lots of visitors from the western suburbs (and hopefully ...

I've also been focused on the green area in the center of your map. I recently developed this concept that involves partially demolishing Ramp A and realigning the surrounding streets to create an almost 12 acre site... requires engineering magic to build arena on stilts above 394.


Yeah, it's ...

Another option would be the Mary's Place / MPLS Royalston block (and then the land on the other side of Royalston can be A-Lore's private development). That's kind of a terrible location for Mary's Place to be anyway, so relocate them to some of the undeveloped in Heritage Park. Move the Public ...

I just saw that Gethsemane Church downtown is for sale, which got me to thinking that you could acquire the Normandy hotel and make a superblock bounded by 4th and 5th Avenues and 8th and 10th Streets. It's still probably undersized, but there's more adjacent land available for redevelopment there ...

Sure, we just shut down HERC [buy a few dozen square miles of land out past Hector for the massive new landfill we'll need to replace it, expand the roads out there for the fleets of diesel burning garbage hauler trucks] and then build a new arena. EASY!

Roy Wilkins has some terrible acoustical problems and the amenities need upgrades, so presumably that's where the money would go. In the specific size venue where it sits, there are two other options: the Armory and the (future) First Avenue Amphitheater. Northrop (pre-renovation) would have been ...

Would be interesting to experiment with adding turnstiles at Lake Street/Midtown Station. That one specifically because it's already grade-separated...


Yeah, just because it doesn't make sense to install the turnstiles at most of the at-grade stations doesn't mean that we shouldn't install them ...

COLSLAW5 wrote: April 16th, 2026, 6:47 am Any one know what the "issue they can't talk about" is? or is it just marketing hype.

They also seem to have AI'ed away the significant topography of the site too.

That's A LOT of cement board. I try not to crap on the design of projects too much, but this one is really disappointing.