urbanMSP

More than three-quarters of the jobs are being created in the suburbs. That’s a fairly tremendous economic suction away from the city. So if expanded transit options help stem some of that money flow by making it easier for people - and their incomes - to remain in Minneapolis, that’s a good thing,...

It's a difficult dilemma. There absolutely needs to be more affordable housing (i.e. less zoning restrictions in the suburbs) and more public housing (investment into the PHA's) in the suburbs. The main obstacle are those suburbs themselves. Unwilling to provide opportunity for lower-cost housing t...

Well, there's a few things: I'm not sure why the housing can't be relatively proximate to the jobs, since most of these suburbs aren't actually that physically large. And while some transit is obviously still going to be necessary, figuring out ways to move people around a smallish suburb is just a ...

Yeah if industrial mainly stayed in the center cities, places like the North Loop or the Mill District would not be the way are today. Though I think that we should still try to keep the majority of the blue collar jobs inside or at least near the 494/694 beltway. I agree. I think what confounds ur...

Apparently the vast majority of new jobs, especially blue collar and service jobs, are being created in the suburbs. And lack of transit to those jobs is a growing problem. http://www.startribune.com/local/north/266955181.html The problem is real but everyone in the strib is taking a terribly blink...

The logo for this place looks exactly like a scrotum, which I guess sort of sums up the expected tenants.

Glad to get some commerce on the streets but I'd be a lot happier if Uptown didn't feel destined to become a wealthy white urban enclave.

Prison is currently inaccessible to me as a place to move to, which is fine because I in no way want to live in prison. You're talking about not concentrating poverty, but dispersing immigrant poverty wouldn't be desirable to that immigrant community. There's certainly people that want to live in t...

As I tried to stress before. The 20 something's are the ones who are willing to spend a larger part of their paycheck on food and alcohol than old folks who have mortgages and kids to have to budget for. If you are trying to turn over tables and get big tabs then this is the target audience that ne...

Aren't liquor laws a big part of the reason dives are so long lasting? Since they were grandfathered in, they don't have to adhere to the stricter liquor to food ratios that newer restaurants have to work around. Anyone know any more about this? I too wonder about this. Anyone? Edit: it really feel...

The dive places that exist have figured out their niche and once you've survived 40 years you should be able to keep trucking. But I can't think of a single dive bar that has opened in the past 10 years, so of course they won't be constantly closing if they never open up in the first place. I'm gue...

In all seriousness I don't mind having the space filled but it's weird that practically every new restaurant and bar is targeted at the exact same (frequently detestable) social and economic demographic.

>$10 is pretty standard for a quality cocktail in this town (or any town, really). See Marvel Bar, Icehouse, Eat St. Social, Butcher & the Boar, etc. Just because you don't appreciate what you goes into a drink doesn't mean others don't. Good point: it's pretty standard when you compare it to a...

Because Rye was apparently in Uptown, I'll leave this here- the space is already spoken for: http://www.vita.mn/crawl/261737931.html I almost hope this fails hard, out of pure vindictiveness. 12 dollar cocktails and 15 dollar "small plates"? Give me a break. Rye wasn't the greatest, but i...

With an immigrant community, the main concern for someone in gut wrenching poverty isn't access to jobs, it's access to services and community. A lot of these people can't get any job, because the don't speak any English. They need to be a part of this community while they learn English (a service ...

If you were poor would you rather be able to take a train for 20-30 minutes to your job or spend 2 hours on suburban bus routes that operate infrequently and don't operate for 2nd or 3rd shifts? This is what I mean by transit fetishism: you've framed the question so that quality of available public...

So does 'publicly financed in a broad sense' include everyone who claims a mortgage interest tax deduction? I hadn't thought of it like that, but I guess it would, wouldn't it? And hey, I'd love to get rid of the mortgage interest tax deduction -- both because of its regressive nature and because i...

I think at this point it would be helpful to have a discussion of the facts, just so anyone interested has the chance to know what is actually being done on this project. For those interested, CPED's staff report for the Community Development Committee has a breakdown of the funding: http://www.min...

Just so I understand, when you say "virtually all of it public money" are you saying that literally almost all of the cost for this development is coming directly out of public coffers? To ask it in another way, are you saying that "virtually all" of the $52M for the project is ...

A "failure" of what exactly? Obviously we have a transit corridor that connects downtown Minneapolis, UofM, and downtown St Paul, which are, I believe, the top 1, 2, and 3 job centers in the state. The existing transit service was not sufficient to reliably serve the transit needs in the ...

It kind of feels like the goalposts are moving all over the place here, but look, this is an obvious failure. The Met Council is awarding money to developments on the assumption that they can find commercial tenants to support them. They have not been able to. In the meantime, the projects are stall...