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by Nick
February 13th, 2025, 5:22 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1423
Views: 722107

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Febuary :(
by Nick
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 ...
by Nick
January 28th, 2025, 11:04 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Nicollet Mall
Replies: 1488
Views: 651009

Re: Nicollet Mall

Silophant wrote: January 28th, 2025, 9:03 pm a good reality check from the Bluesky consensus
So no one's really learning any lessons from the past decade, huh?
by Nick
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.
by Nick
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 ...
by Nick
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 ...
by Nick
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!
by Nick
November 30th, 2024, 8:42 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
Replies: 272
Views: 145902

Re: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics

I…er…is that a bot?
by Nick
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.
by Nick
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!
by Nick
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 ...
by Nick
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 ...
by Nick
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?
by Nick
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.
by Nick
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.
by Nick
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!
by Nick
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.
by Nick
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

twincitizen wrote: Quoting a post from 2012 is fun.
Wrong!
by Nick
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.
by Nick
October 3rd, 2024, 4:20 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Xcel Energy Center
Replies: 61
Views: 133511

Re: Xcel Energy Center

Well, the hotel thing specifically.