urbanMSP

I think the cobblestone in the north loop is great. It deters people from driving too fast

Ding!

With the new talk about the Vikings stadium having a baseball alignment "squeezed" into it... has it ever been discussed to add a retractable roof to the Saints ballpark? Not sure if you are serious are just making fun of the comments on the Strib article. But if you are serious, a roof w...

It's funny but those who object sound like those who objected to the LRT. Trains or bridges to nowhere. Yea maybe they are different but the complaints are the same. Now lets see what the bridge rewards will bring. Not to mention replacing an outdated dangerous bridge. Well the complaint may be the...

I wonder if Off-Sale liquor stores will spring up on the Wisconsin side, and filling stations on Minnesota side. Are our (MN) clothing tax savings enough to attract WI shoppers? It's difficult to enforce exactly where a car is licensed; if one state or locale is less expensive you can drive with th...

The Duffy's own the two Victorian structures that sit next to each other behind the pizza shop. I was a tenant in the one next to Duffy's. I'm pretty certain they subsidized the pizza business with the four flats and a studio that are in those two buildings. Even if that is true, is that a problem?...

That's exactly what he said. It's 24 minutes to go south from Stillwater to Hudson, cross over on 94, then north to Houlton. Is that worth $22 per crossing? Nope. This is the point. I guarantee you if charged a $6, $10, whatever toll each time you cross it (you and the other "many" MN pla...

Ok so a few positives of this project (there are few): BRT station/Lake St bus bays will likely make for better pedestrian use and connections of current/proposed transit lines. The connection to the greenway reinforces this. Mild streetscape improvements seem to be proposed. Other than that... I'm ...

Yep. My hope is that, eventually, we can get to the point where every private business in Minnesota has been taxed into oblivion, and the only remaining employer is the government. Only then can we all be assured of having President's Day off, as God intended. We can't go from one extreme to the ot...

As long as they charge slightly less for a unit that faces something like that, fine. There is clearly a tradeoff and a property developer shouldn't be able to charge the same. Choose: more money in your pocket with possible hearing damage (...) and mild annoyance, or the flip. I, lived near the tra...

The Duffy's own the two Victorian structures that sit next to each other behind the pizza shop. I was a tenant in the one next to Duffy's. I'm pretty certain they subsidized the pizza business with the four flats and a studio that are in those two buildings. Even if that is true, is that a problem?...

This new bridge will cut an hour off my drive to my cabin in WI. Money in my pocket.

Money, or time? How much money? Would you say the collective savings of every cabin-goer is the cost to build the bridge?

Well keep in mind that not everyone's goal in life is to open a restaurant and have it be under continuous growth planning. SOme people want to run a restaurant, not become a CEO of a chain store. Mesa took the Ian's pizza idea from Madison (didn't the owner work there?) and done a good job expandin...

Well they replace the 120 spots with 42 in the arcade. Not too bad. The UTEC site will lose more. I'm not in disagreement that the area still needs parking for visitors/shoppers/etc. But how much? Where else can parking exist in the area? Most of University and 4th have no on-street parking. Road di...

A toll would certainly help pay for this thing's cost, but it would be drops in the bucket. Honestly, is there ANY way to get the politicians who were behind this thing to see the light and reverse the decision? If anyone is truly serious about "fix it first" as the SOTU made so clear, we ...

That triangle will never be developed. Access (pedestrian and otherwise) would be a huge pain in the ass, and also it's a drainage inlet. I don't know much about the drainage requirements about the given site as I'm not a planner or civil engineer, but it seems like the surrounding area has far mor...

This is just me, but I would really love to see some traditional "civic architecture" in this stadium. As someone said (maybe in this forum, maybe in another), wild and crazy art is fine when it's on display in the Walker; when it's a public building that many of us will see every day, it...

I think part of it has to do with zoning (parking minimums and either the space or cost that comes with it) and land-tax vs improvements tax. I think the other part is the law prohibiting people from investing in their own community through real estate. Big brokers and developers are the only ones w...

I'm surprised so many people think tourism is a big contributing factor to decisions we make. I've seen on this thread from a couple people that a streetcar would be better for tourists. First, I support streetcars if only slightly. But let's be honest about our town. Tourism is not a major draw. An...

Any chance of some small projects going in some tiny infill areas? In my (humble) opinion one of the things that makes a street or area fun/great/interesting is the variety of buildings - age, # stories, width, materials used, architectural style, etc. Adding tons of housing along with more ground-l...

When quoting someone it is no longer very clear where their text ends and where the new post text begins.. Not sure if this was a bug or done on purpose... I liked the boxes around the text in quotes before. Any update on this?