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- January 31st, 2025, 8:30 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935787
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
I think 6 cents on the dollar means it lost 94% of its value, not 99.94%. But in any case, I still maintain that the value was lost awhile ago, it's just only being realized now. It is indeed terrible that we're losing such property values, but it's a done thing at this point - optimizing among bad ...
- January 31st, 2025, 8:11 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1357
- Views: 935787
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Agree with BoF above. If you take the loss of office demand downtown as a given (which I do), then a private sale at a loss to a creative, local owner is not a bad outcome. No bankruptcy, no foreclosure sale - this is just the market resolving a valuation reset via market mechanisms.
While this isn ...
While this isn ...
- January 24th, 2025, 10:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Hiawatha-Minnehaha Corridor - General Topics
- Replies: 281
- Views: 278197
Re: Hiawatha-Minnehaha Corridor - General Topics
Wow, way to predict the Cybertruck design years before it was a reality! 

- January 24th, 2025, 10:36 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 880439
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Wish there was a schedule or map.
Glad it's 7 days a week, but it looks like they are using repurposed prime minibuses rather than normal transit buses which is kind of disappointing (take a look at the contest page). 45 to 60 minute headways is better than I was expecting to be honest, but I ...
- January 20th, 2025, 8:15 am
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: UrbanMSP Patreon live - please consider supporting
- Replies: 12
- Views: 493
- January 20th, 2025, 8:14 am
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Dark Mode?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8771
- January 14th, 2025, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2025-2026 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 22
- Views: 705
Re: 2025-2026 Minnesota Legislature
It's certainly an arguable position. Will be fascinating, as a civics nerd, to watch it play out.
- January 14th, 2025, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2025-2026 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 22
- Views: 705
Re: 2025-2026 Minnesota Legislature
Are Republicans really pressing forward, purporting to conduct business in the House and conduct business despite not having a quorum? This is gonna be a chapter in some AP Government textbook in a few years.
Are they claiming that only 133 members were elected, and so 67 is a quorum, not 68?
Are they claiming that only 133 members were elected, and so 67 is a quorum, not 68?
- December 31st, 2024, 8:56 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 415
- Views: 191996
Re: Interstate 94
Is the ventilation mainly for exhaust removal? I wonder if standards could be revised in the future as emissions standards and/or EV adoption improve.
- December 27th, 2024, 10:03 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5418
- Views: 1462763
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
What is the issue with signal priority in St Paul? Is it the case that the technical capability exists to improve the running times through St Paul, but for some reason the city government won't give the ok to flip the switch?
- December 13th, 2024, 10:30 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5418
- Views: 1462763
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Great question - I wish I knew the answer. I seem to recall hearing that when it was axed, they would design the terminus in such a way that it could be extended to Mitchell in the future, but that feels very dead at this point.
- December 11th, 2024, 8:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 880439
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
You’re not imagining it. More transit construction is snarling travel in the Twin Cities.
Byline: "As Metro Transit’s network expands, major transportation projects are tearing up roads across the metro. Businesses say there’s not enough help to weather the disruption."
Very disappointing choice ...
Byline: "As Metro Transit’s network expands, major transportation projects are tearing up roads across the metro. Businesses say there’s not enough help to weather the disruption."
Very disappointing choice ...
- December 5th, 2024, 2:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10694
Re: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment
Also, I just read Mcastle's write-up of the history of the intertates in MN, and it sounds like, at least once upon a time, the original plan was for 35W to follow Lyndale Ave, so that's probably why this exists.
A History of Minnesota’s Interstates, Part One
A History of Minnesota’s Interstates ...
A History of Minnesota’s Interstates, Part One
A History of Minnesota’s Interstates ...
- December 5th, 2024, 2:10 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10694
Re: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment
does anyone know why this area down here seems to be so overserved by on ramps and off ramps?
I think this sort of thing was just the cool thing to do back in 1957 or whenever.
ETA: Looking at HistoricAerials (1957 aerial view, ironically), it looks like 35W essentially terminated here, I'm ...
- November 11th, 2024, 10:17 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington - General Topics
- Replies: 381
- Views: 178739
Re: Bloomington - General Topics
It's interesting to me that the article doesn't mention 494 rush hour gridlock, which would be a big concern for me if my office were located along the strip (especially with the multi-year construction project going on right now). I've had friends who worked at different points along the strip from ...
- November 7th, 2024, 8:34 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Sprawl
- Replies: 124
- Views: 17489
Re: Sprawl
Certainly Burnsville and EP have their sprawl issues, but IMO nothing really compares to the sprawl along 65 up in Blaine.
- November 1st, 2024, 8:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
- Replies: 268
- Views: 156040
Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings
Kinda sounds like you could the same benefits without the corporate socialism by just nationalizing the railroads.
- October 25th, 2024, 8:36 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Sprawl
- Replies: 124
- Views: 17489
Re: Sprawl
And I think we'd all agree that's a choice you should be free to make, but we should each bear the costs of the externalities we impose on others through our lifestyle choices. It just so happens that, here in America, car-dependent / suburban lifestyle choices are heavily subsidized at the expense ...
- October 2nd, 2024, 8:11 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1848
- Views: 1110475
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Blue Line LRT extension clears critical step despite opposition
Robbinsdale and Crystal voted to give municipal consent during meetings Tuesday night.
Robbinsdale and Crystal voted to give municipal consent during meetings Tuesday night.
- September 25th, 2024, 9:01 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 205038
Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
Convenient + certain, in my opinion. I think it's why "shuttle" is such a buzzword in suburban transit planning - people like to know exactly where it's going to go and when, so stuff like Ren Fest shuttles and downtown express busses fit that perfectly. They run every X minutes, and go direct from ...