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Cars will be used as terrorism here. Keep the square open to the community. I haven't had a chance to go over there, but from the pictures and videos I've seen, it looks like cars space will be pretty constrained, with the memorial space blocked off by jersey and other concrete barriers, so maybe i...

. Metro Transit buses will return...soon (probably as soon as they can get the word out to riders and take down the detour signs). They are detoured farther north for D Line station construction, so maybe not. Hopefully they can re-add the D Line stations back into the construction contract without...

So the taller proposed building in this rendering starts at Lake and Girard and crosses over Fremont and goes all the way over to Emerson. I don't think that's gonna fly. Also if Lunds goes in on the ground floor of the southern half of this other proposal, I don't think it would be a wise decision...

I'm thankful for Lisa, when I watched her tour of the Dayton's building she seemed to have a deep insight into the realities and needs of Downtown businsesses That seems like literally the easiest thing for a councilmember to learn about (because they make their thoughts known). The question is whe...

Don't know but I also have to say that it's not hard hard choice to pick French over Forney.

I have a lot of respect for Meyer, in that I think he has good positions and doesn't get involved in the stupid games that some of them seem to be playing. He's endorsed Tom Olsen for at large, which in the stupidly murky depths of Park Board politics is enough to get my vote. I'm not convinced that...

Please don't let the DFL Senior Caucus pick the direction of Minneapolis for the next 4 years.

Yes, this.

yes work started this past monday

There was a sign on northbound Chicago around 42nd saying "Chicago Ave closed at 34th starting April 5 (or whatever)." Which is funny because it's been closed at 28th for about a year.

Hiawatha Golf Master Plan should have passed tonight, as the vote was 4-2 in favor (French and Severson opposed), with 2 abstentions (Vetaw and Bourn) and one absent (Hassan). However, one of the friendly amendments (by Vetaw) earlier in the discussion was to rename the clubhouse (after Solomon Hug...

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That's a look

Am I the only one who sees "Live Shows!" and thinks strip club?

Was it ever an option to try to change the zoning (or whatever) to try to encourage more mixed use in the rebuilding here? Specifically the giant parking lot just north of Lake that had a Wendy’s and AutoZone. That space is begging for something bigger, and if so there would almost be a little urba...

Agreed. I live about equidistant between the Mall of America, Southdale, Burnsville Center, and Eden Prairie Center. It's been at least five years since I've been to any of them. Most people in the suburbs shop for their daily needs and wants somewhere else. They could all completely disappear (Som...

It's certainly bad all over, but the impacts are far more noticeable downtown (as in impactful on the quality of life). Basically the draw of downtown is the things that have been crushed as a result of the pandemic (walkable vibrancy). The 'draw' of Eden Prairie doesn't change all that much even i...

Now leasing for move ins in July (I know someone moving in).

Should been two stories taller, but looks good.

Unless you change the road or have far greater speed enforcement changing the "legal speed" doesnt do anything to change someone's driving. The limit is 45 mph around downtown st paul but how many people slow down to even close to that if there isnt traffic. Not that I do it very often, b...

That is true but the reason people treat it as a suggestion is due to our enforcement practices and the culture of lowering it we'll below safe design speeds. If we're serious about speed enforcement we need speed cameras. I'm not personally a fan of them but that's the solution. Keeping a speed li...

I mean, maybe. But wouldn't the offsetting argument be that since offices just aren't as important, you'd get as cheap an office as possible? I think if the office isn't particularly to impress employees or visitors (which there will be less of), it's mostly a place to collaborate. And like you say...

Sora Apartments fully wrapped up. I can't imagine walk-up units along 5th Ave are leasing well, but who knows.

Seems like a good time to have a private entrance so you can avoid shared spaces...

Interesting that they are rebuilding (I assume) the Holiday at 46th and Hiawatha to be oriented toward the sidewalk.

I don't know that water storage capacity is really the issue here, since there's an easy path down the creek for water to get to the Mississippi -- I just think the elevation of the golf course is too low relative to Lake Hiawatha. As I understand it, they're proposing to raise the elevation of the...