urbanMSP

Couple of towers too, is what I heard.

I see it, but it's for 813 University, an old apartment building, not the new luxury ones. However, The Station appears to be having some trouble filling up for its first year as well. This bodes pretty poorly for the luxury student housing market, if the existing ones are having trouble filling, an...

I hope you were a level above the "That's cool, I guess," said Chemistry sophomore Bob Loblaw. level of like 75% of quotes used in Daily articles. Might not matter. I was interviewed by the Strib about the Sally's development a few months ago. I made several insightful comments about the ...

I agree with Cam Winton's position on reevaluating 3c, but it's hard to know whether he's interested in better transit or just derailing the train all together. This might fall into the category of the Cato Institute (etc) arguing for buses over trains, and then turning around and working to cut fu...

It isn't on the ballot yet. The CC will vote whether to put it there on Friday, I believe. Soon, in any case. The problem with having it on the ballot for this election is that this is the only chance the public has to vote on it. After that, it's entirely in the hands of the city council. And the e...

Doing some research, it looks like SMUD, the Sacramento Power utility, charges about 10 cents per kWh in the summer, whereas my recent electric bill shows that Xcel charges about 11 cents/kWh. SMUD charges a $12 base fee, Xcel charges ~$15 in base fees. Your 50% cost savings must be coming from decr...

For those that want to participate, it sounds like the hearing is at city hall next Thursday at 10 am. The Minneapolis Chamber is encouraging people to come and voice their concerns as they, themselves are opposed to this and will be expressing their concerns for (in their own words) this needless ...

Full Disclosure: I'm interning at Xcel Energy this summer. I don't like the concept of a for-profit utility, though, and I'd probably support the municipalization if it made any sense for Minneapolis, which it doesn't. All opinions are my own, and I can't vouch for the absolute accuracy of my data....

Given that Xcel is the largest wind provider in the nation, and just proposed a new wind farm as big as the Monticello nuclear plant, to start construction, I'm curious exactly what strides you want them to make, especially keeping in mind that they have to be able to power the system even when the ...

I can answer those questions, but not on my phone. I'll edit this post to include them when I get back from work today.

It's not about the midrise, it's about the 8th largest employer in downtown. And about the stability of the city power grid. And about whether the city can afford to buy billions of dollars worth of infrastructure. But that's best saved for the new thread. On this topic, I'm wondering if the city co...

http://www.minnpost.com/two-cities/2013/07/winton-offers-plan-break-minneapolis-st-louis-park-stalemate-over-light-rail As much as I don't like his "Just put a heater in every bus stop instead" plan for the streetcar, He's got the right idea here. Between this and the way he appears to be ...

I was going to ask you guys on the bridge last night if you knew about UrbanMSP, but I got sidetracked by something (probably a bus) and never did. Looks like the answer was yes.

Like, tomorrow Friday? Or today, now that it's past midnight?

Yep. I went to an informational meeting about the municipalization debate today, and they mentioned that no major utility has headquarters outside its service area, for obvious reasons. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Since the full editor is down, I'll just post links to a couple pictures I took of the first run here: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1074519_598069523547849_76605420_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1085154_598069553547846_525453169_o.jpg Hi, LRV ...

For anyone waiting, I asked a metro transit guy, and he said they should run at about 11.30.

Standing on the Washington Ave ped bridge, waiting for the train... The tripod guy(s) are set up at Washington and Church.

Do we know yet when this goes to the full council?

Honestly, I'm mostly psyched that it's more than six stories. I'm sick to death of six story stick structures. Or SSSSs, if you will.