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17 years after it closed, maybe a new use for the Tuttle school
https://mndaily.com/285762/city/como-ba ... partments/

Allowed and visible in Sydney and Melbourne: https://www.dexus.com/dexus-insights/signs-of-the-times
Recently expanded in Chicago: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/04/21/more-brand-names-in-chicagos-skyline-city-opens-the-door-to-additional-high-rise-signs-on-office-buildings/

Generally these ...

I'm curious about this Minneapolis idea that signage on buildings is bad. Like, it's a common feature of towers around the world. What is the problem?

Who knows if it will be NIMBYed out of existence (it seems to meet code except for dumb setback requirements), but moved to next CPC meeting
https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/ ... -bandshell

This one at 715 Lowry Ave NE is also interesting. 7 units, 3 stories. True missing middle.
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... f%20Report

People who note that a lot of the new developments in Minneapolis are studio – 2 bedrooms, except near the U, are not wrong. And to a large extent it is true that a larger number of smaller units are more profitable.

But ... we're getting redevelopment of this form, rather than infill townhouses ...

Construction has started on the Malcolm Yards apartments. It was kinda cold, so I didn't grab a photo, but will do so soon.

With respect to the Franklin/East River Road/27th fustercluck, the situation is that in 2008/9 the county/city/park board studied things, and there were some truly insane things proposed like a two-lane roundabout, and significant engineering to cantilever the bike trail under the Franklin bridge ...

I guess this whole situation is summed up by the phrase: they're in a hole and they're keeping on digging (and asking more money and time to do it)

Obviously it would be a huge embarrassment and our legal/planning system makes it even more time consuming ... but would be really curious if it would in an engineering sense just be quicker to stop the digging, refill it, take out the townhomes, and build at grade with signals to control the ...

alexschief wrote: January 21st, 2022, 9:23 am On another note, the built form district for this property is insane. Why was this designated Interior 2?

Minneapolis 2040 was pretty conservative in a lot of places.

Opening the packet (or Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/JKHnt1VPvavtZdLm6) it looks like the housing in the "church" is actually in the shorter to the right not in the taller worship space.

Yeah, agreed, Northeast has lots of room for this to occur. I kind of get it with churches and their large ...

Things you never imagined you'd see: a church proposing to build housing on their parking lot at 39th and Chicago/Elliot
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... liot%20Ave

Malcolm Yards moving along
https://mndaily.com/269239/news/malcolm ... d-in-2022/

My one concern is that the continuous median (mostly good) blocks turns not only into driveways, but also some streets. This is necessary to keep left turners from blocking all traffic and I understand that. The concern is that weird angles and one ways on side streets will make it almost ...

Huge difference between lots of single track, and one point. And if they were willing to consider the radical railroad operation idea of ... checks notes ... signaling and switches they could double track it on the surface, and do the co-location idea. We are, after all, talking about at most a few ...

Probably too late to abandon the tunnel idea, and lay the rail on the surface.

We are spending more than $100 million dollars on this tunnel to avoid either
* a short section of dedicated single track operation for the LRT, or
* having freight rail share track in the same direction no more than ...

New details on the Stadium Village plans from the U
https://www.mndaily.com/article/2020/01 ... pment-plan

Maybe I'm too cynical, but thinking things through doesn't really seem to have been a huge part of the Minneapolis approach to executing a network of safe biking streets. They literally reconstructed 15th Avenue SE 3 years ago, including curb reconstruction, and didn't put in a protected bikeway then.

One thing that will help the flight is that connecting from Europe via Dublin you do US clearance there. Not as big of a deal flying into MSP to avoid immigration as other places, but a nice thing to get out of the way.