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That's not that big of an imbalance, considering that people in Dakota County benefit from core city transit by having transfer options when they arrive (either by taking the transit that does exist (especially the Red Line which is specifically designed as a transfer route), or by driving to a par...

Doesn't hurt that there are plenty of Delta flights between MSP and ATL too.

The first bit is about Dakota County's interest in transit, which of course they recently demonstrated by causing the CTIB to collapse. Yeah, because we were getting a lousy deal. Dakota contributed 13 percent of the funding and only got 7 percent of the spending. Sure, I get that the money doesn't...

Really sucks to lose Curran's, but the apartments seem as good a use as any for the property.

I've been WFH for four months now; I've gotten used to it but part of me does want to get back to the office eventually. I live close by, so the commute was never an issue. My colleagues who have long commutes love WFH and want to keep doing it as long as they can. I'd probably like it a lot more if...

Initially my company made it be a requirement that the home office had to have a door that could be closed off from anyone else in the house, but that of course went out the window in the recent exodus from the company offices.

How would they know, though?

As long as they're limiting attendance at the ballpark and mandating spacing, which it sounds like they're doing, it should be alright.

I also do not understand what the purpose behind this would be, unless they eventually decide to extend it all the way across the river, what with there being no crossing between the Wakota Bridge and Hastings. Building a highway to GCI seems strange when there's next to nothing there anyway.

I remember when the Gordman's stores went out of business (the first time) with an everything-must-go sale, and then reopened less than a month later after being acquired by another company. Of course, now the ones that are left are closing again.

Is anyone else starting to worry that Lake St is going to become empty for years? West Broadway, wasn't hit nearly as bad and is likely to bounce back with more of the damage on chain businesses. Only two mom and pop places burned. Lake Street, the scale is so much larger and with businesses not ha...

Walz seemed today like he was fed up with both City Hall and the MPD for they both handled (or didn't handle) things.

Putting this here so it doesn’t get lost in the busy general thread. Great read overall, lots of choice quotes from developers and politicians. The Downtown Minneapolis vibrancy conundrum: http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2020/may/the-downtown-minneapolis-vibrancy-conundrum Interesting read; thanks ...

I find it interesting the asseveration that Chicago's vibrancy comes from in part traffic congestion being so horrific that office workers are stuck after work buying overpriced food an beverages rather than being able to get home to their family in the suburbs. I wonder if he was referring more to...

Bachelor Farmer must have been going under before all this. Their family is worth almost $2B. They could have saved it if they wanted to. Still a shame. Their family might be worth that much, but they personally certainly aren't. Maybe things were tight already, but it also didn't seem like a place...

At least in my neighborhood, the 55+ buildings are the ones that generate most of the police calls too, due to medical issues.

"Probably built like crap, has amenities you'll only use once or twice, and the cheapest granite counters and stainless steel veneer appliances we could get at a bulk rate, but hey, you can stumble home from the bars."

Many restaurants struggle in the best of times. It might be different if they knew this was only going to be for a certain amount of time. But with the shutdowns being open-ended, they probably saw the writing on the wall and decided to call it quits now.

I'm in an apartment, but on the ground floor, so I only use the elevator if I am bringing up a lot of stuff from my car in the garage. Management is doing extra cleaning and have closed off the amenities. That said, we have a secured package room that everyone uses, so that's probably the weakest li...

It will last much more than a month.

More, maybe. But not much more. People are only going to put up with it for so long; there is already pushback against it. The current restrictions are probably necessary to buy time, but they are not sustainable over the long term.

I'm assuming they've considered this (at least a little) but the wealthy kids in kenwood that they think will save north won't save north....because they wont go to north. They will move or go to private school. Or go to a charter school, or open enroll in another district -- Minnesota is one of th...