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This is more “central 38th Street” than the eastern stretch covered in this thread, but the city is doing something called “Thirty-Eighth Street THRIVE Strategic Development Plan”, covering Nicollet to Bloomington. Page: http://www2.minneapolismn.gov/cped/projects/WCMSP-226449 Plan: http://www2.minn...

Based on the Strib comments, Twins fans are almost universally in favor of this move. I've never seen so much agreement in a Strib comment thread, ever. Especially when said topic is regarding a pretty big change. People are generally wedded to the status quo on everything, no matter the subject.

Not sure where else to post this, but the Twins and MLB are continuing in their pursuit of the Saints leaving independent ball and becoming the Twins new AAA affiliate. This has been talked about since late '19, when MLB announced a massive realignment and contraction of minor league teams. It's bee...

Ugly building, but losing a medical clinic probably not a win for the neighborhood, right? Thank you. Honestly I've never thought that hard about the building being ugly. I barely notice it when going to Riverview Theater or Cafe or Mother Earth Gardens. It's pretty blah, but to act like this is th...

I got my flu shot there a couple weeks ago, in the small pharmacy. The pharmacy had *everything* 20% or 30% off then, and the discounts could go higher as the closing date approaches. If you want to stock up on anything from Nyquil to Advil to candy and pop, go for it. Looks like it's scheduled to c...

To Monte's point, even if they make a nice chunk of change on the property sale, assuming it's a family-owned/run business and they aren't independently wealthy, this scenario probably only happens if/when they're ready to retire or get out of the business. Retirement probably is the case for the ca...

Tick tock for Falls Liquor and Falls Dentistry on the SW and NW corners of Minnehaha-46th. Either would be wise to think about moving into this project or the available commercial space in LoWa or MN46 (NE corner). Of course they could plan to return to commercial space in development of their own s...

I don't know if others are feeling the same, but I'm actually glad the police charter question was ultimately not included on this year's ballot. And this is a change from how I felt at the time! I still agree with those who think the Charter Commission overstepped their role by blocking a unanimous...

Were the journalistic articles really the main point of City Pages anymore? I get that in the past, alt weeklies (and City Pages specifically) had a reputation for doing some good investigative journalism and/or stories that the mainstream print press ignored, but that really wasn't a big part of th...

City Pages to shut down immediately, citing loss of ad revenue (primarily from bars/restaurants): https://www.startribune.com/city-pages- ... 572897771/

This is tough news on the heels of Southwest Journal shutting down.

If the Blue Line is routed away from Olson Hwy entirely (e.g. heads north from Target Field on 7th), the C Line is a lock to stay on Olson to continue serving that corridor. Shifting the C Line to Glenwood was only conceived because Olson would've been overserved by transit if it was carrying the Bl...

The governor still needs to sign it (and he has announced that he will), but the bill just passed the Senate 64-3. Bus Rapid Transit Lines $55,000,000 For design, engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of the B line bus rapid transit line between Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the D ...

I kind of gasped at that 2033 timeline too, but mostly because just ~3 years ago when they completed the AA, they were saying 2027/8, or about 10 years out at the time. It’s one thing when a project gets delayed for reasons (see: SWLRT, Bottineau), but it’s another when the schedule is already slipp...

I visited twice. As someone who already loves and appreciates the "Lower Trail" you can access from those couple sets of stairs along Main Street, I found it awesome. Took a bunch of photos. I hope people got great drone shots from above that show the locations of the lowered water line, etc. Disapp...

Now why can't developers do the same for downtown Minneapolis? Instead we get buildings with either one huge retail space that would involve companies having to spend money to divide it up, or no retail - only "walk up" units, which to me - would be highly undesirable and doesn't add to street life...

mod note: Posts about the river lowering / locks were merged with Downtown Riverfront topic (in the Downtown subforum).

Nah, let’s extend the C line down Cedar and reclaim the “Red Line” designation for either Riverview or Midtown. With Ramsey County looking to call the Rush Line “Purple” (it should be Silver IMO), we’re basically gonna be out of colors, unless we’re gonna go Chicago style and do Pink & Brown. Yellow...

I posted this 6.5 years ago! (edited for length & clarity) I never noticed before that you are not allowed to make a left off of southbound Hennepin during either AM or PM peak. I knew about the no-left-turn restriction onto Franklin, since that one is a no brainer. From a recent drive, I observed t...

It was fun watching all of the "pods" go past my house on a truck. They'd come up 34th Ave three at a time (one per semi truck), then stage on 34th just south of 42nd, until it was time to lift each into place. I'll have to take a peek as they install the siding and finishes over the next month+. If...

First apartment building revealed, for the SE corner of Ford & Cretin: https://myvillager.com/2020/06/24/five-story-230-unit-apartment-building-with-grocery-planned-at-cretin-ford-pkwy/ 5 stories, 230 units, 50k sq. ft. grocery. Has to be a relocation for Lunds, right? Seems sort of unlikely anothe...