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Well it looks when you search "CyberTaxi" and "Minneapolis," two of them were sighted at Tesla in Brooklyn Park about a month ago. Doesn't seem any clearer why today.

Sorry to doubt you! When you assume...

Without a photo it’s hard to say definitively what you saw, but considering Tesla is barely operating their robotaxi service in the Texas cities where they are in operation and the gold CyberCab isn’t yet for sale, I think there’s a chance you saw a Musk fanboy’s Model 3 with a gold wrap.

This particular example of mid-century architecture isn't worth spending any money to save.

Any would-be data center developer would need to move quick because once the proposed zoning amendment for data centers is passed, they won’t be allowed to do data center operations on the first or second floor of a property downtown, nor would they be allowed to use a building solely as a data ...

I think the problem with this argument is it's intentionally setting up the bare minimum effort Fidelis has put forward against a made up standard of packing the entire property with apartment buildings, as if the lack of a developer rushing in to propose a Roseville version of West End is proof ...

Are Roseville residents, Roseville government, and random internet commentors suggesting they know better than Fidelis what the market will support and how much parking is needed, and that it would actually be viable to pack the site with mixed use 5 over 2s or something?


Putting aside the ...

Sounds like a bait and switch to me. Especially saying that 20MW is their “initial” plan and not the actual scale of the project they ultimately foresee.

Now I am rooting for the city council to block this and Legacy selling the property to someone else. To try and play the mixed use development ...

Some discouraging news on the HarMar front.

Big takeaways for me are:

- The property owner clearly does not have a vision beyond carving the building open to put more parking spots next to the existing retail, apart from a few new restaurants on the periphery of the property.
- Fidelis knows ...

I guess I'm not so much worried about whether they can fit 20MW in the building, or how much of the building they'd need. I'm more wondering whether the new ordinance would require them to keep the existing building as is (it allows minor additions, doesn't say anything about removing 3/4 of the ...

I understand the concern to some extent, and if we were still in 2018 at the height of boom where 10-30 story apartments were getting proposed every six months or so, I would probably lean more in that direction.

Having said that, I also don't think we're in danger of actual good sites for Transit ...

Developers are looking to build nine 3 story row houses on a small corner of land across from the Holiday station's car wash.

Rowhouse Minneapolis

Would be neat if it's a success and we see imitations elsewhere throughout the city.

Thinking about this project with respect to the new Data Center ordinance that's making it's way from Planning Commission to City Council right now.

Doing a quick Google Maps measurement of the building, there's about 270,000-300,000 square feet of space between the exterior walls. What that ...

We can't build major projects in this country anymore because Robert Moses and freeway planners did it in an awful way and we overcorrected with elaborate planning rituals and byzantine scoring rubrics.

I would really hate to see us overcorrect from mistakes like demolishing the Gateway District ...

making parking easy (unpopular I know) and improving the skyway wayfinding/access


Generally I agree with your post but the problem is that parking is already easy. The people who complain about parking being 'difficult' either mean "I have to pay money" which isn't going to change, or they mean ...

If the leadership of the city wanted to use their cozy relationship with downtown leaders (and donors), leaning on them to finally set standard skyway hours would be a major improvement. If half of the retail and restaurants downtown are only open for four hours a day, five days a week, that’s a ...

Like, if Denver, Portland, Seattle, heck even Pittsburgh can have some of this sort of retail post-COVID, Minneapolis should be able to as well. Those are not downtowns known for having great post-covid recovery either, but they still have smaller places to shop in their CBD.


I looked up what ...

Would love to see those benefits guaranteed in writing. The data center ordinance was a good start, and a vindication for the council members who fought for a moratorium to study the issue.

But it's also clear that the Sleep Number and Wells Fargo data center properties are not models for good ...

I know their new store formats are open to unique and ranging space sizes, but even if we assume a 7500 sq ft Barnes and Noble, I don't see that happening. Even if we're extremely generous and say they can find a space on Nicollet Mall for $15 a square foot, that's still $112,500 a month before any ...

It's true that a lot of buildings have terrible frontages, but many of the bad frontage buildings are already capable of meeting this very low bar. City Center in recent memory had a Sports Authority (or whatever came before it), Marshalls, and Office Depot. Marshall's was technically in the ...

I think what's so mind boggling about the situation with Nicollet is that you can go walk down the street to Washington and see that Downtown Minneapolis, and Minneapolis at large, is not having a retail crisis. It's just having a hand-wringing crisis that they keep throwing money to change the set ...