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With ample opportunities to transfer to LRT or other BRT, ideally yeah I would want this hypothetical Cedar-Johnson route to skirt downtown. A northbound Cedar BRT rider wanting to go downtown could hop off and get on the Blue Line at Franklin (bit of a walk), or Green Line, H Line, or 22 at West ...

Get your comments in by Friday April 25: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNORGMETC/bulletins/3dca591

Nicollet is obviously a slam dunk pick. However I think it should go "somewhere" and not just dead-end/turnaround at American & 2nd Ave.

It's hard to not pick Johnson-Lyndale too since ...

Improvements to crosswalks at Hiawatha & 46th and a new signalized pedestrian crossing at 45th: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/hiawathaavempls/


Meeting tonight at Nokomis Community Center, 5-7pm. No formal presentation, so I think it's one where you can just drop in, look at the ...

For those that haven't been thinking about how to rework this area for a decade or more, we have an old thread with links and maps (both fantasy and from an actual study): https://urbanmsp.com/viewtopic.php?t=466

Even with the shift in the vision for Shepard Rd (parkway, not highway), it still ...

Sounds like they are trying to keep up with the Quad Cities River Bandits: https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-101040800

MnDOT is interested in turning back West 7th to city or county ownership. It could be that just the portion east of 35E gets turned back or possibly the whole corridor from downtown all the way to the bridge.


Would this involve re-routing MN-5 onto Shepard Rd? This has always felt like such a ...

I went to the first public meeting tonight. Learned a couple things not apparent from the project website.

This project would actually replace MnDOT’s planned project which was just a “mill & overlay plus” and not a full reconstruction. That does lengthen the timeline by a few years but ...

Bill to change the definition of “blight” include “vacant or underused properties”.
https://finance-commerce.com/2025/04/minnesota-office-to-residential-conversion-bill/ (unlocked)


As these bills are being discussed to create additional incentives for conversion, I'd urge the legislature to be ...

Some new additions to the project site since the announcement 3 weeks ago. Meetings are coming up next week.

1. Interactive map to post comments: https://app.publiccoordinate.com/#/projects/West7/map?point-categories=0a7f1270-a0fe-ef11-90cb-000d3a634eba

2. PDF map showing potential bus lane ...

What's interesting is closing and redeveloping HERC could be the shared interest that binds urban environmentalist progressives and rich sports team owners/Chamber of Commerce booster/Rybak-Frey types.


Yeah I agree that tying the arena approval to the closure of HERC might be the only way to ...

Without getting into the minutiae of MN liquor laws, it likely has to do with who holds the liquor license and whether that same entity also owns/operates the restaurant(s) directly. If the business entity owning/operating the food hall holds the liquor license but doesn't operate any of the ...

Improvements to crosswalks at Hiawatha & 46th and a new signalized pedestrian crossing at 45th: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/proje ... haavempls/

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2025/03/19/downtown-minneapolis-office-property-values-2025.html

Biz Journal reporting on big drops in tax assessed values for office towers:
Capella Tower: 2024 value was $147.7 million; 2025 value is $131.6 million, representing an 11% drop
IDS Center ...

That could be a really great addition to downtown. I wonder what this bill would do, unless it's just to allow for a special liquor license.

State Rep. Katie Jones, DFL-Minneapolis, introduced a bill earlier this month that seeks to allow LaSalle Plaza to operate the food hall.

Possible, but not super likely. I don't think the votes are there in the Senate to give up on NLX, even if temporarily and as a part of a greater negotiation package. Even if this bill were to pass the house it's unlikely to pass the Senate and Governor's office even as part of a conference ...

I just noticed that there are no Ramsey County logos on the presentation. I suspect Saint Paul & Metro Transit are going about this in a strategic manner to draw Ramsey County back in as a major funding partner. St. Paul of course has no money for any of this, aside from perhaps owning/maintaining ...

Interesting that the reconfiguration of [494/34th Ave] to a DDI with LRT in the middle not only made LRT service less reliable than before, apparently it failed to create positive conditions for the 54 as well. IIRC, that was a MAC-funded project, but still...


It does seem contradictory that ...

New concept released, public input meetings planned.

https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/transportation-and-transit/new-west-7th-corridor

Presentation:
https://www.stpaul.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/2025%2003%2010%20West%207th%20Corridor%20Concept_Public.pdf

PiPress: https://www ...

Didn't GSA spend like 200m renovating the Whipple a few years back? It would make more sense to consolidate federal offices there from downtown. Still served somewhat well by transit.


MSP Biz Journal: "Originally budgeted at $115 million as a stimulus project led by the General Services ...

https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Committee-of-the-Whole/2025/02-19-25/BRT-Openings-and-Readiness-Update.aspx
I posted too soon! The Presentation was updated with more B and E line information, specifically in regards to local bus service, which diverges from the network now ...