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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...


Absent a more detailed route map ...

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 ...

Continuing a conversation from the O2 project thread:

Hoping they can get moving on Harmonia soon, though I fear that with *waves hands* everything happening right now they're just going to sell the old data center to someone who wants to turn it back into a data center.


I had heard (barber ...

Continuing my knack for being Nostradamus on this forum:

https://www.startribune.com/trump-admin ... /601228749

Are you saying the water taxi would have issues with low clearance going under the new bike bridge to reach the marina?

It's too bad that a bike-ped bridge between France and 100 is not part of the plans for the massive 494 expansion project currently underway. Even worse, I don't think anyone even asked for one. A bike-ped bridge connecting Computer Ave on the north to Stanley Ave on the south doesn't seem that ...

Hempel should try to relocate Punchbowl Social into the long-vacant Toby Keith's space and knock that portion down while they're at it, since it's adjacent/connected to this proposal.

I have been watching the construction on this bridge and screaming to myself that they should just be doing all the work for blue line so its good to see someone else thinking ahead


Yeah I would think they could have added this work onto the change orders for Southwest, given how large the ...

MSP Business Journal has a story up about federally-owned real estate. With remote work it was inevitable that the GSA would start looking at consolidating offices and selling off surplus buildings. That will probably be accelerated by the current administration, despite somewhat conflicting with ...

Nick Halter with Axios wrote about the Ameriprise building today: https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/02/03/downtown-minneapolis-office-tower-discount
UrbanMSP member Rhett Carlson found some concept renderings of a residential conversion: https://x.com/rhett_carlson/status ...

In 15 years of being into planning stuff, that is easily one of the coolest interactive maps I have ever laid my eyes on.

Comments on Segment 4, from south to north:

A roundabout at Franklin/27th/ERR is how the intersection should have been rebuilt ~15 years ago, but people were too unfamiliar ...

This building was always going to sell for a fraction of it's previous value, just as Wells Fargo Center and other buildings have recently. But there are two other major factors driving this building's sale price down even further, well below its actual valuation:

1) It was built for a single ...

- I think people who are used to the Nicollet buses detouring for a few blocks at the drop of a hat are underestimating the legibility/usability hit that comes with that. It's bad enough with the local routes, it'd be absolutely unacceptable to have the F Line (or future Rt 18 BRT) move away from ...

I also like the idea of a public/quasi-public use at 20 Washington. It would be an easier conversion than hotel and it would be ideal for the grounds to be publicly owned. I assume/hope there are easements across the property today that allow the public to use the lawn area and walk between ...

So why is this under serious consideration now but was not a decade ago when the state and city spent $5 million per block to rebuilt Nicollet?


Reason #1 is there was no capacity to add local buses on Marq2 in ~2014 when the rebuild was being planned. Metro Transit was struggling to get express ...

I swear I remember seeing concept drawings for that stretch of Pennsylvania Ave within the past few years, maybe shared on this forum. Road diet, some realignment and maybe closing some of ramps off Pennsylvania to Jackson. Does that ring a bell for anyone else? I'm at least half sure it was an ...