urbanMSP

If Amazon is willing to foot the bill to have the rail stop at their doorstep, that'd be cool since they can afford it. Otherwise I think we'd be better off investing our transit dollars elsewhere.

Uptown isn't as much of a destination anymore, and that's fine. So long as the property owners shift their focus from catering to people seeking a destination retail experience to one that caters to the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. In this scenario, a new 15 story apartment building i...

It's a bad trend for luxury retail in Uptown. It could be the start of a trend towards more neighborhood and community focused retail if the people who own the properties don't get caught up in chasing luxury leases or chains that have no logical reason to be in this neighborhood.

Imagine if we refused to build international airports because the futurists of the 50s had convinced everyone that there was no need, because flying cars were just around the corner. And how about that fusion reactor that's just around the corner? Or everything being made out of graphene? I'd rather...

A mural would be an improvement, but I agree that if they were to just paint it a solid color it would be worse.

The difference is capitalists never care about negative externalities that are created in the process of their profiteering. We need regulations to help fix the world from being one giant garbage dump at the convenience of Pepsico and Exxon. Using regulation in order to preserve an obsolete business...

You can purchase a car however you prefer. Doesn't mean we need to protect people who solely exist to make vehicles more expensive anymore. If they truly provide a value, let's remove their state mandated place between me and the manufacturer and see if they can prove their value without regulatory ...

It's easy to take in big profits when you're in the middle man business.

Just think of what University and Snelling would look like if they'd been this willing to invest in grade separation when Dubya was president.

They were, it just had to be in service of getting suburbanites to sport games and not transit users to work.

So what kind of travel times for a high speed transcontinental line can we expect vs just taking a plane? I have no illusions that taking a high-speed train from New York to LA, or even Chicago to LA, would ever be competitive with air travel. But that's not really the point. The point would be hig...

I know Biden regularly used Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor, but does he have experience with Amtrak service outside of there? If his plan is taking away from long-distance service and making minor improvements to corridor routes then that's no better than the status quo. His infrastructure plan i...

If only there was someone running for president who regularly rode Amtrak and understands its value to the American people.

It doesn't matter how much op-ed ink is spilt claiming that "The Millennials" are on the verge of abandoning cities. The financiers are the ones who continue taking the risk and putting up the money for construction, so I'm going to listen to them instead of suburban real estate boosters or develope...

I was referring to Jacob Wetterling, broadly circling the northwest metro exurbs into one "area".

I just get tired of hearing about "crime" as if it's exclusively a city issue and that moving solves it.

One of the worst and most well-known crimes in MN history happened in the St. Michael area.

New proposal, 7 stories and ugly.

Plans coming before the Planning Commission Committee of the Whole

Is there any real precedent for an active politician later being selected to the supreme court? I remember people were toying with that idea for Obama, but that was clearly more West Wing fan fiction than something that could actually happen. Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court post-presidency ...

If it was Hyvee, it wouldn't be their first. They have an urban format store in Downtown Des Moines.

It sounds like it's not something they push for on every property, but if the property is working well and the area conditions are right, it's something they pursue. https://www.insider-trends.com/leading-the-way-how-jll-is-helping-create-the-shopping-centres-of-the-future/ There is such a car cultu...