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This looks a little meh.

Right now it looks like they're building a skyway between this building and the one immediately next to it.

Filling in the space over here makes the eastern part of campus feel a lot different.

Still wish I'd been able to graduate in here instead of Mariucci.

One of our better uses of bonding money in recent memory.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206984145910503912318.0004c1c3e6260a705af8b&msa=0&ll=44.975333,-93.236761&spn=0.012736,0.01929 Key.jpg I went and did quite a bit of picture snapping at and around the U of M today. It's nuts how much this school has changed in just a couple years, a...

I drove down Penn today (with Paula Pentel , a candidate for County Commissioner that you should vote for if you live in District 2) from Olson to West Broadway and counted 90 houses on the east side of the street, about the same amount on the other side. Not sure where the "130 homes" num...

¡Three bedroom units! Even if it's just in the townhomes, good stuff. Also, check out the photoshopping of 412 Lofts on Doran's website. They put it out in the country, from the looks of it.

For all of the knee-jerk folks out there who instinctively holler boondoggle when they read these falling ridership stories, need to understand demand for the system would be much greater if trains ran every hour until 10 or 11pm. Currently, they run in the morning and then sit idle for a large chu...

YTD ridership on Northstar is down 7.25%, sparking the fare reduction idea. If ridership doesn't increase, lost revenues will be funded through savings in Professional and Technical Services and reserve fund balances.

Booooooooondoggle.

I preferred the old plan that included apartments / hotel above the library. My guess is the economy put that project on hold. Personally, I'd like to see this corner add some more residential to the neighborhood. A good way to do that might be to have the City of Minneapolis act like a developer, ...

I'm pretty sure people were just using Lucas Oil Stadium as a stand-in for scale purposes. It was new and being used for the Super Bowl last season so it was a good reference point for people who aren't quite as hooked into the NFL as Larry Spooner. I would be very surprised if we consciously copied...

Spent two great years living a block from this project. It's crazy how different Stadium Village is from when I first moved there in 2008. Getting off the bus by TCF Bank Stadium to go to Stub and Herb's it looks like there's a little skyline...

I mean, if all else fails, we can just do what they did with it in Contagion?

Shawn you probably have Photoshop right? If he does a PNG file (or whatever that thing is where you don't need a background), I wonder if we could screengrab the background from the website template and plop the logo on top? That would look nice

That shade of red looks great with the blue! I do kinda like the way it trails off with the bridge but I guess it would make sense to include St. Paul. Probably the Capitol and two other buildings?

I believe that's Mill & Main, another Doran project. That guy knows what he's doing.

Whatever they want to do with the upper levels is fine IMO. They have to make the complex work financially as an investment. The main issue for me is to have the street level relate well with Hennepin Ave and the surrounding theater district. It should open up to the city, engage with the pedestria...

Here's a link to a really good article on "entertainment districts" by someone I'd seen on Minnescraper in the past, he writes for Strong Towns , also a really good website. http://nathanielhood.com/2012/05/06/avoiding-the-allure-of-entertainment-districts/ The lesson being that very, very...

This still looks pretty sad (it could use a logo), but here's the Facebook page for the new site as well:

http://www.facebook.com/urbanMSP