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Upcoming Hennepin County HSIP project should eliminate most of the sharrow zones on 42nd St. The only ones likely to remain after this are at 28th Ave and the nasty drop at Hiawatha/34th Ave. https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download/Agenda/2171/003_19182022HSIPPreliminaryLayout.pdf/57552/2523/003_191...

how it started how it's going

South Burnsville Cub Foods rebuild/redevelopment could include apartments: https://burnsville.civicweb.net/document/32290/Sketch%20Plan%20Review%20for%20Cub%20Foods%20Site%20at%201800%20C.pdf?handle=9131FFD8D01F4993BA22A0A7CF161435 This was originally a Holiday grocery store (anyone else remember t...

ah good thing Kraus Anderson forced them to route around Lucky 13s and all..

Does anyone actually walk into a dealership and decide to purchase a car same day? That seems like a yikes move when purchasing an overpriced depreciating asset. Back to Orange Line... Let's say a giant grocery store replaces the Herberger's/Toys'r'us site at Southtown... any chance the Orange Line ...

The Fridley problems are more about the station layout. The platform was designed as an island platform, but only serves a single track. The two existing mainlines are east of the platform. There are also some yard tracks through there but none serve the station. The west side of the island platform...

I’ve long had a wild idea in my head in which 77 gets the flyover and 62 gets widened — but in exchange for supporting freeway capacity, Minneapolis gets a calmed and pleasant Cedar Ave. 7762.png That was similar to this idea of mine from years ago. The idea being the mainline of 77 would flow righ...

It is honestly bonkers that Hastings isn't an Empire Builder stop. A suburban stop on each end of the metro would make sense.... Coon Rapids/Foley (once the Foley Blvd P&R gets platforms) or Fridley on the north... but SPUD is already not that far from Hastings. If SPUD didn't exist and EB stop...

Would be kind of a cool photo op if they had backed into Hastings to unload passengers at the old Milwaukee Railroad depot.

Do they ever get passengers off in those situations? It would be maddening to sit on a track in Cottage Grove if SPUD was your final destination.

We have a thread for that sort of thing, Amtrak...

I can't imagine that corridor getting tracks again - it's a long gap from Reedsburg to Sparta. A little more likely would be some new tracks along the Hwy 12 freeway corridor from Wisc Dells to Baraboo, where it could then get on existing tracks to Madison via Waunakee. But neither of these options ...

That's how hospitals work, and Mayo has extended that paradigm to their research/lab facilities too. And with the accelerated pace, it seems like they announce expansion even before construction starts on the original.

$200 million / 110,000 sf expansion announced for the Jacobson Building (proton beam radiation at the Methodist Hospital campus downtown) to open by 2025. https://www.postbulletin.com/newsmd/hea ... -expansion

It looks like that service center concourse should flow right into the old Thrivent cafeteria across the street.

I now live in a similar small town in a touristy area of rural Minnesota, and I can understand why there's an issue with affordable housing - I'm probably contributing to the problem here just like the remote workforce in Grand Marais. People who can work remote are moving out of the metro to these ...

This project (named The Berkman) will be getting the first Red Cow outside of the Minneapolis metro.
https://www.postbulletin.com/business/r ... aint-Marys

You're just not going to see a lot of spec commercial space in affordable projects, except in places where the city absolutely requires it and would deny a project without it. Same thing with the RS Eden Amber Apartments at Hiawatha and 45th. Alas, on-street parking on Hiawatha and a crosswalk to t...

So when does the DNR file an injunction regarding pumping?

Unfortunate there's been no discussion of MSP-Rochester passenger rail with the latest round of Amtrak dream maps and infrastructure deal plans. I realize the HSR might be dead, but I still think there could be a market for connecting MSP to Rochester via Owatonna and the existing Canadian Pacific t...