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Not sure why anyone would max out parking for retail here when Edina spent so much money to build free public parking across the street. But whatever, at least it isn't required anymore. Pro tip: If your own a car and it is covered with frozen crust during the winter, park it for free in the new hea...

The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing structures (9 single family homes) in order to construct a new five-story, mixed-use building with 45 dwelling units and 16,506 square feet of retail space. The proposed building would have two floors of underground parking, accessed via the publi...

I realize this wasn't a development hot spot 20 years ago like it is now, but it's wild we have such a low-use low-employment land use along prime riverfront property.

It would be a shame if people sent emails to all the officials on the bottom of that letter from MVTA's Dorsey flack with three points: - The link to the original letter and that this is a response to the denial of facility use. - Links to tweets showing this is a transit barrier that has literally ...

Are they plants to make the Frey Slate look just ever so slightly appealing by comparison?

It would be better to have the BRT stop and freeway ramps at different locations anyways. Having them together at 46th is nasty.

IMO the most interesting possibilities in this corridor would to be focus on the eastern half, via a short extension of the existing Blue Line connecting MOA to one of the future Orange Line stations, or perhaps York or France. .... The trickiest part would be potentially reconfiguring the existing...

It should be criminal how Xcel Energy dropped that new pole in front of Grand Ole Creamery instead of connecting them from the interior of the site. There are also three poles that only exist to serve Caribou and a single streetlight. The same sort of thing happened when Carbone's remodeled the old ...

The Snelling bridge is not new - it just got some renovation. It still has outer supports in addition to the median support. Not as much clear span as newer bridges often have. Plenty of space to add another lane with shoulders, maybe two more lanes per direction with substandard shoulders, but not ...

It would be better to sunset all the special taxes and taxing districts - food, liquor, lodging, entertainment, tickets, etc. It's quite the list. Maybe it could be an easier sell for Greater Minnesota(tm) legislators because it could be said those extra taxes target outsiders.

Re: U-Haul... Wasn't that old Mobil/Taylor Auto remodeled a year or two ago? Brand new storefront system? Did anything ever move in there?

C is for Cedar. Extend it south.

Lunds is posting pictures of their progress here: https://www.facebook.com/Lunds-Byerlys-Nokomis-103669665119270 Also, a Hennepin County PW engineer told me the city was (at a minimum) planning to restripe the 4700 block of Cedar but that plan seems to have escaped into the void. This block was stud...

Pre-project street view https://goo.gl/maps/SUkB3DgnwpGXp2ot7

Tesla is hiring in... travel demand management? Seems so weird given their outward corporate culture.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2488393533/

Starbucks has cleared out of their Nic on Fifth space, so RIP to the leasing team for that building.

That was my fav Starbucks downtown because it wasn't in the skyway.

Reminder: A tunnel from where the 7th Stroad (easy median ROW) ends near Plymouth Avenue to where the Bottineau Stroad (easy median ROW) starts near the city limits is about the same distance as the tunnel built for the Blue Line under MSP airport . There are also significant areas that could be cut...

If there's going to be any circulator, it's going to serve Downtown-Riverside-Campus-Northeast one that runs in a Washington-University loop. Gondolas radiating out from a downtown hub, maybe on the near-block of surface parking between Warehouse District LRT, Butler Square, and Glueks.... gondolas...

On another note, is there any *accountability* for actually performing according to a travel demand management plan? I used to work for another large institutional employer on the greenway who had TDMPs for their greenway campus in the public record (old planning documents, etc). And then you could ...

Those downtown tracks are likely to just go away in a few years. Most of the customers have closed recently.