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Significant grade changes happening over there so the "first" floor is likely to be partially submerged in places, partially revealed, fully revealed, etc...it is nice to have a sloping site sometimes...

I hope the city/neighborhood pressures them to add plenty of green space. Is there a comprehensive plan for DTE? In order for Minneapolis to do something special and REALLY show other cities how to do forward-thinking urbanism, families need to be considered and designed for. Super-progressive famil...

Grainger is included in the parcel.

You guys are wrecking my utopian dreams with your "realities." Curse you! =^] In seriousness, MNdible has a good point about trucking waste "further" but Avian is right, I am talking about the "green" river corridor proposed for north of downtown. Some material would be...

@john: The angled bumpouts in design development/early renders were designed to be "consistent" in the angle meaning that the squared off lower stone *was* in the same plane as the angle so that the whole piece angled. It made sense with the overall plan and the large, corner element which...

@jet777 and @ fotoapparatic have the right idea, it just needs a bit of fleshing out. We have to stop thinking about "moving the HERC" because that won't happen. BUT,(wait for it) what DOES seem feasible/desirable is also somewhat likely IF we push for a progressive future which the city i...

@Neptune: You are right, this should be called Currie Park, Phase 1 and my understanding is that the historic building at the corner could really put this project in jeopardy. In order to get the rentable square footage that they would need, they would need that corner and everyone wants a corner, v...

The city has a plan for 29th that includes right of way improvements that required a pretty significant setback along the street frontage for the project at 29th and Lyndale. That project has the parking access off of the alley feeding into 29th. As the Buzza and 29th and Lyndale residents start to ...