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by grant1simons2
May 26th, 2021, 1:02 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Target Center Renovation
Replies: 548
Views: 135660

Re: Target Center Renovation

Damn this thread took a turn
by grant1simons2
May 14th, 2021, 9:56 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
Replies: 2037
Views: 859534

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Lines out the doors tonight, people are packing Hennepin again. Downtown is going to be fine.
by grant1simons2
May 12th, 2021, 9:32 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Replies: 349
Views: 119170

Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists

I got cancelled by the economy too since we decided now would be a good time to have a gas crisis.
by grant1simons2
May 12th, 2021, 8:44 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Replies: 1301
Views: 877012

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market

Or, it's fine and it will naturally recover as it already is. There has been legit traffic downtown during the Twins games. There were lines of valet cars going to Hennepin for Murray's and Oceanaire.
by grant1simons2
May 11th, 2021, 12:41 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Replies: 349
Views: 119170

Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists

You can easily do that on a bike and feel more intact with the roads and neighborhoods you're in. Slow down, smell the smells, explore back alleys. I got this so I can drive to like, the Badlands. And Maine and a bunch of other place that you can't get to easily by US transit. 09 Subaru Outback, of ...
by grant1simons2
May 11th, 2021, 9:07 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Replies: 349
Views: 119170

Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists

I bought a car lol
by grant1simons2
April 27th, 2021, 7:31 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line LRT
Replies: 1297
Views: 111808

Re: Green Line LRT

Is that what that is? Well I feel dumb, I thought that was a certain species of tree that grew like that in Europe...
by grant1simons2
April 26th, 2021, 12:49 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line LRT
Replies: 1297
Views: 111808

Re: Green Line LRT

They cut down all the tree branches in the Washington median on campus. So now there's just these weird stubs. Honestly I don't know who wanted to plant trees there in the first place, prairie grasses work better, could've spent that money improving the boulevard trees that are still to this day sti...
by grant1simons2
April 9th, 2021, 10:12 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News

Yesterday I saw the guy using an electric assist pallet, parked on 6th St.
by grant1simons2
April 9th, 2021, 9:43 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News

Well that explains how the sign got dented. I go there a couple times a week, and was really curious about how a sign that high up was crunched.
by grant1simons2
April 9th, 2021, 9:42 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: RBC Gateway & Four Seasons - 37 stories - 519'
Replies: 2124
Views: 526936

Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'

Starting to feel much taller with the glass reaching the upper floors now

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by grant1simons2
April 9th, 2021, 9:40 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Archive Apartments - 110 1st Street N
Replies: 161
Views: 63053

Re: Archive Apartments (Not West Elm Hotel & Condos) - 102-120 1st Street N

I REALLY like the way this one turned out

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by grant1simons2
April 9th, 2021, 9:38 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Eleven - 1111 West River Parkway - 41 stories / 550'
Replies: 381
Views: 255217

Re: Eleven - 1111 West River Parkway - 41 stories / 550'

This thing has to be close to topped off, right?

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by grant1simons2
April 7th, 2021, 3:15 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Always the Commons one! Which seems to be doing okay so far...
by grant1simons2
April 7th, 2021, 11:46 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Still waiting for Taco John's to reopen. There's paper up on the glass of the former Dunn Bros space across from Taco John's. Not sure what might be going in...

Starbucks has cleared out of their Nic on Fifth space, so RIP to the leasing team for that building. They're back to square one!
by grant1simons2
April 7th, 2021, 10:25 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Afro Deli is reopening, Vellee Deli is back open and Green + Grain has a long line that wraps into the skyway during lunch. Downtown isn't dead yet!
by grant1simons2
April 5th, 2021, 10:02 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Retail & Restaurant News
Replies: 390
Views: 11699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

This looks awful. A diner/cabaret with the original architecture would be cool as hell.
by grant1simons2
March 31st, 2021, 7:01 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
Replies: 679
Views: 430805

Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and Intercity Rail to Chicago

Just as a major side note, why don't we even discuss a TC -> Des Moines -> St. Louis rail line?
by grant1simons2
March 31st, 2021, 9:50 am
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: The Great River Passage Plan
Replies: 27
Views: 20933

Re: The Great River Passage Plan

I hope someone with the Port Authority is actively pursuing the site with the County.