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The charging stations are definitely municipally owned, but I'm not sure about the cars themselves. I would like to know what's going to happen to all of them, they've been continuing to get new ones until fairly recently.

You're probably right about there not being a specific niche that they fill ...

Thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to do that survey.

I think that's for the best. I think the mixed use concept is a good one, but Legacy made it clear that they weren't ever really going to do that.

There is (or will be) even precedent: the F Line is going to have ~quarter-mile stop spacing for its busiest stretch from University to Lowry.

Actual lol at "large buses will sideswipe more parked cars than they already do" as if the current Rt. 3 buses are taking out side mirrors on a daily basis.

I saw one on Hennepin downtown a couple weeks ago. Two doors, probably gold if the sun had been out but kind of a gross brown in the overcast light, Florida plates. It did have a driver and a steering wheel, but I couldn't tell if he was actually actively driving.

A lot of moving parts, etc, but it's a little weird that this is happening right as apartment construction seems to be starting again. No downtown towers, of course, but there's a couple midsize buildings that have broken ground in Northeast in the past month or two.

I think the demos (the dumpster building, the portion of the doggie daycare building south of the 16th Ave centerline) matches what was approved back in the day. I think approvals expire after two years but can be extended administratively, so maybe they've just been doing that over and over?

Looks like an apartment building proposal for 1516 Marshall St NE (currently a dumpster service, across the street from Fletchers) was proposed at the Sheridan Neighborhood Org meeting last week, according to their minutes .

- 184 units with 184 parking spots
- Some kind of commerical space ...

The square footage limitations are a bit of a red herring. Modern data center architecture is extraordinarily power-dense: per this staff report on the conversion of the old Wells Fargo Ops Center , they're getting ~26MW of service but not expanding the existing data halls, they can apparently jam ...

I know Fridley was working on a way to remove the station platform but keep the tunnel, and possibly extend it so it ramps up to surface level on each end so they don't have to maintain the elevators. Not sure how that's going, though.

Kind of wonder if they want Big Lake as a place to park and refuel Borealis trains after a stop in Minneapolis and possibly Anoka? Wasn't the original hang-up about ending in Minneapolis that there that there's no fueling / layover infrastructure at the station?


That's my guess. I suspect they ...

Per someone on Reddit, who says they have a source close to negotiations: MaceQuantex
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Amtrak is in talks to acquire Target Field Station, the Anoka Station, and the Big Lake Maintenence Facility. They are not interested in any of the other stations. I'm not clear on their intentions for ...

The DGX closed a year or so ago, but the corner space has now become a gallery/marketplace for the Roho Collective . Annoyingly, the ostensibly community-focused space still refuses to unlock its door on the corner of Nicollet and 5th.

The other retail space was leased by Xcel for an Innovation ...

At this point approvals would have expired, and I believe it would have to go through the whole process again, which I'm a little concerned about since the site is zoned Transit 10.

A (much smaller) development did just manage to close on financing less than a mile away, though, so maybe there's a ...

One factor is that parallel transit routes to the Green Line have also seen pretty significant improvements over the last few years, which is probably pulling back riders that otherwise would have made a longer trek to the less convenient but more frequent and reliable Green Line. I'm specifically ...

601 W is retaking control of the building. This time it'll work, for sure.

Converting an existing data center into something else? In 2026? Wild.

I wonder if anyone's attempted to tease out whether there's been an actual measurable benefit to the carpool exemption. Are people actually carpooling when they wouldn't otherwise be to take advantage of the lanes?

I was wondering if they were comparing it to the initial projections for the original Downtown-Uptown-West Lake line originally pitched back in 2015(?!) instead of the Rt. 6 replacement that was actually built, but 2800 riders would be low even for that.

Extremely good to have a "Transit ridership ...