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- February 13th, 2025, 5:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1423
- Views: 722107
- February 3rd, 2025, 10:19 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 938275
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
You know, actually—how are downtowns doing in other countries? Hard to compare downtown Minneapolis to a nice Western European city center for 1,000,000 reasons but what about Calgary or whatever? Are Perth and Riyadh back to their regular Monday lunch rush? Can you get a skyscraper for 97% off in a ...
- January 28th, 2025, 11:04 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1488
- Views: 651009
Re: Nicollet Mall
So no one's really learning any lessons from the past decade, huh?
- January 27th, 2025, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
- Replies: 272
- Views: 145902
Re: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
A good rule is that you always want to be on the opposite side of whoever is using the term “one size fits all” pejoratively.
- January 14th, 2025, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1145
- Views: 431127
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
I feel like some of the underlying assumptions on this kind of thing don’t always make sense. Is a freeway armpit apartment building with a surface parking lot and water retention pond 30 miles from downtown better than five houses? Ideally, less people would be living that far out, which the five ...
- January 10th, 2025, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: State Capacity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 475
State Capacity
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-need-now-a-capacity-agenda-for-2025/
I thought this report was a pretty good read, and relevant to many of the things that people on here are interested in, e.g. train costing five times as much in the United States vs. Europe while taking five times as ...
I thought this report was a pretty good read, and relevant to many of the things that people on here are interested in, e.g. train costing five times as much in the United States vs. Europe while taking five times as ...
- December 14th, 2024, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington - General Topics
- Replies: 381
- Views: 179408
Re: Bloomington - General Topics
Propping up the grad school industrial complex is in many peoples’ best interest, even if very indirectly. You too could someday be producing lucrative studies no one reads!
- November 30th, 2024, 8:42 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
- Replies: 272
- Views: 145902
- November 26th, 2024, 6:24 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
- Replies: 2062
- Views: 934802
Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
Yeah—instead of having the dumpo temporary fencing around the Government Plaza water feature for five months maybe you can just turn it into an actual ice rink? Not much walk up retail/restaurant potential around that block, though.
- November 21st, 2024, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 74
- Views: 92844
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
There was no "other side" because no one wanted to point out what direction the wind blows. Minnesotans!
- November 21st, 2024, 5:44 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 74
- Views: 92844
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
I'm also deeply skeptical that Democrats would have performed better in the world where our local elected officials routinely told activists "the thing you're concerned about is stupid."
I think it's extremely clear that this would have, in fact, helped. There were double digit swings towards ...
- November 19th, 2024, 7:38 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 74
- Views: 92844
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
It's likely my own broken brain that is making me type this out on the computer, but the HERC situation came to mind for me as a good, relatively low-stakes example of the governance problems common across the blue states. It's an issue where everyone involved knows what they're doing is stupid, but ...
- November 11th, 2024, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington - General Topics
- Replies: 381
- Views: 179408
Re: Bloomington - General Topics
Is there something that could happen that would make you not say that?
- October 30th, 2024, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53131
Re: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
If you look on street view, there's not a curb cut onto 27th, so I don't think it's parking access. It does end at the hotel, but there are a couple ways you could get to Huron through there, through the parking lots on either side. I believe the hotel was a separate (earlier, I think?) project.
- October 29th, 2024, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53131
Re: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
I think we did? It's been a while but I want to say there was a condition of approval for "The Arrow" that they preserve a space behind the building for an eventual connection and it looks like there is a concrete path on Google Maps. It was definitely discussed.
- October 22nd, 2024, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to St. Paul (3/22/2025) and Minneapolis (2027)
- Replies: 521
- Views: 205328
Re: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to Downtown St. Paul (2025) and Minneapolis (2027)
It is pretty funny to shake $20 million (4% of the project cost!) out of couch cushions and make a project three or four times more useful. Good work!
- October 21st, 2024, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
- Replies: 460
- Views: 88174
Re: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
The zip line across the river was fun.
- October 20th, 2024, 11:33 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
- Replies: 460
- Views: 88174
Re: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
Wrong!twincitizen wrote: Quoting a post from 2012 is fun.
- October 10th, 2024, 4:31 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
- Replies: 2062
- Views: 934802
Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
I had heard a rumor that something fell off the facade.
- October 3rd, 2024, 4:20 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Xcel Energy Center
- Replies: 61
- Views: 133511