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Besides the obvious heat loss problem, is there some other reason *not* to run heat pipes in an exterior wall? I mean, the original builder did it. Maybe water condensation in the wall when you have a hot metallic pipe that close to the cooler exterior portion of the exterior wall? Or, maybe a rupt...

So anyone have experience moving radiant heat pipes? I'm not talking a whole sale move but rerouting an approximately 6 ft section closer to a wall and then running along ceiling a few feet. I don't mean how to do it (way above my skills), but cost and feasibility? I'm sure it's feasible I suppose ...

4. Hope such a widening would also be an opportunity to replace the 14th Ave inaccessible ped bridge with an accessible bike-ped bridge at 12th Ave. I don't know this for sure but someone told me that as part of the work being done on the Bloomington Ave bridge, bike-ped lanes are being added. If t...

4. Hope such a widening would also be an opportunity to replace the 14th Ave inaccessible ped bridge with an accessible bike-ped bridge at 12th Ave. I don't know this for sure but someone told me that as part of the work being done on the Bloomington Ave bridge, bike-ped lanes are being added. If t...

Thanks for the pointer. I created an account and posted a site I'd love to see redeveloped.

62 badly needs 3 lanes as well. Minimally from 100 to 77. Ideally from 169 to 5. Is any of that on MnDOT's radar?

Any rumors on what's going on just north of Cinco De Mayo Mercado on Nicollet Ave? There was a 3 bedroom house with an attached commercial brick building right on the curb: https://goo.gl/maps/poqZg The house has been demolished and the brick building is still standing but I'm guessing it's coming d...

Page 4 has the re-opening of Nicollet information. Slated for 2020.

Uhg... 2020 is a long ways to go...

There's no construction cam for this one, is there?

Will we soon hear cries of "Save Stadium Village!" and "It's Stadium Village not Stadium Megatown!"?

It begins:

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... -stay.html

Hey, Minneapolis has a handy new Off-Sale Liquor spacing map- http://cityoflakes.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Edit/index.html?appid=e2e7ce74b04440aea87f6549c03ae0b8 Sorry, sort of a ignorant question. So the area in the blue does NOT need the 2000 buffer? But everywhere else does. Correct? New liquor store...

There were no plans to connect Custom House to the TPT building via skyway, was there? I'd imagine it would take significant internal changes to Custom House in order to do so in a convenient and usable way for the building as a whole (it would have to connect several floors up). However, the only c...

"US Internet plans to offer cable TV in Minneapolis"

I really really hope that they won't require their own set-top box. What I'd really like to see is an option for some sort of small ethernet->coax transceiver box so that we can run coax to our existing hardware (eg. TiVo).

"US Internet plans to offer cable TV in Minneapolis": http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2015/05/20/us-internet-cable-tv-minneapolis.html "If the City Council blesses Minnetonka-based US Internet's plan, it will immediately offer TV in pockets covering between 25 percent and 3...

Excelsior and Monterey, 1966. Undergoing a widening project. Another from the SLP Historical Society.

I'm trying to figure out the parking convention on the right hand side of the photograph. It kind of looks like the wild west...

Travis, what's the average lag time between when the main trunk line gets laid in the street in front of a house and when that individual house's NID box gets connected to it and goes live? Does the trunk need to get run down the entire contiguous north/south span (10+ blocks) before any of the NID ...

Great article on the opening this week:

http://minneapolis.eater.com/2015/5/5/8 ... choenefeld

It's nice to see the sidewalk seating! Once the 40-seat patio is done in the fall, this corner will really be happening outside!

http://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/about/improvements/sip/11_AppendixJ_NewAnnualRidesandResources.pdf Lots of great improvements! My favorite though is the addition of the following for a number of routes: Add late night and early morning trips to facilitate connections to nontraditiona...

Any idea where USI is installing these days? I can't wait for them to get over to Northrop!

http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/fiberusi

Green is existing service and purple is 2015 build-out.

Only the first port of the 8-port switch is usable for Internet. If you subscribe to USI's VoIP/phone service called Ravon, that is usually then connected to port 2 of the switch. The remaining ports are not usable for Internet. Ah, ok. I'd imagine that USI will supply an IPTV service similar to Ce...