urbanMSP

Hot damn

[throws tomato]

If this project isn’t at least a B- I’m moving to North Branch.

Party barge

That pool looks very fun? Why have I not heard of this?

Very cool of them to get rid of the Nicollet door and put booth backs against the windows.

Damn really? I thought that was next month. Wanted to go one last time.

An 11 story, 84 unit building sounds kind of fancy?

Sure does look exactly like the rendering.

From reading three or four Post-Bulletin articles about it, the opposition to this seemed like a classic case of local media turning a handful of seemingly unwell people into a big narrative.

Well, it worked, so some reason.

Drive-throughs are banned as of August 8th. However, if their application was deemed complete before then, they proceed through regulatory review under the previous regulation. I'm not sure if there's any way for the public to find out when the application was deemed complete. Hopefully not way bac...

I assume Multimodal is insinuating that a daycare is too boring/inactive of a retail use to bless the sidewalk frontage of this building (Please do correct me if I'm wrong and that's not what you meant). That's patently absurd. This area and most of downtown is an absolute dead zone with vacant gro...

Being in St. Paul is disqualifying, yes.

Can’t seem to find the comment now, but something that was weirdly singed into my brain five or six years ago was someone commenting on one of my streets.mn posts where I referred to us as a “medium-sized” metro area. The name on the comment was something like “mpls/stp 16th biggest” and the comment...

The Embassy Suites on Hennepin was a big one.

LowVee?

Did you really describe it as “visionary and complex” Matt

Yeah, this one was kind of out of left field? Out of all the places, who would have guessed that parking lot would be getting a new building (let alone a 40 some story tower) a couple years ago?

How many years do we have left until we hit the 2ºC temperature rise that is a tipping point for climate change—11 years? How long will this building take to build? When will transit come online? How long will this building last? Last year we were warned we had 12 years. Now we have 11 years. Next ...