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Mercedes-Benz will have a pop-up space open later this month. The following article notes that it will open only for two months.

https://carbuzz.com/news/mercedes-benz- ... l-near-you

Speaking of jersey barriers, NE corner of Rice and Como has them surrounding the old Stahl lanes footprint. Anyone have info on what's going up? Combination coffee shop and dialysis clinic. Whenever the coffee shop opens, it won't be Tim Hortons. The franchisee that operated them closed all of them...

Skyscape location is not on this list of closures put out by CVS today:
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3649440002

Route 62 service will be reduced in August according to this: https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetin ... pment.aspx

Heads up for anyone wishing to visit the Brew Hall, there are only a few actual beers available. That's the bad news. The good news, none of them are Michelob Golden Light.

Forepaugh's closed unexpectedly on Saturday, following the death of their chef last month to the flu.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/loc ... 20d3d0874e

While MOA is losing more tenants, it is gaining more events. Yesterday, MOA was announced as the host for the 3X3U National Championship. It's a 3x3 basketball tournament where the champion conference will split $100,000. FTR, the B1G Ten is the "defending" national champion, so I know who...

what? no way! I know they had weird hours but it was really neat to go there and eat a sub and watch the trains go by and the airplanes land overhead. Was such a neat spot to have lunch, even if the food was just Subway. I hope they have a little fast casual restaurant there. It's a nice location t...

Metro Transit changes for March 9:
https://www.metrotransit.org/these-rout ... on-march-9

The big one is that Route 83 service after 7 PM is being eliminated.

The Wild, Twins, Wolves, and Vikings all have stadium operated team stores operated year round, open all week except Sundays for most of them.

I know the Wild store isn't open on Sundays except during games, not sure about the Wolves, the Vikes and Twins have their stores open seven days a week.

American Girl is closing their store on March 20.

Per MSPBJ, Big V's, will become the Midway Bar and Saloon in March.

Sears store will close in March, this announcement coming on the same day that all other Sears(and KMart) stores may join them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/28/sears-c ... ation.html

Sears Holdings is likely to go into Chapter 7 tomorrow which will result in mass liquidation. So we may get a resolution on what will, if anything, replace not just the KMart here, but also the one in St. Paul as well.

April 13th is the debut of Allianz Field as Minnesota United FC hosts New York City FC. Remainder of the schedule will come out after Christmas(and possibly New Years').

I'm pretty sure the people at U.S. Bank Stadium would rather have the CFP National Championship game, rather than have a bowl that might not have a B1G team available.

Was not particularly impressed with the new Walgreens. It just isn't the same without a full-service pharmacy there.

The loop to the Lyngblomsten Senior Home on the 84 is interesting. Hopefully that can help ridership; it seems well suited for the local route to make that loop (and for the senior home to be on the local loop) if they have to cut it back to roughly there anyways. I'm not sure how much life is left...

Speaking of jersey barriers, NE corner of Rice and Como has them surrounding the old Stahl lanes footprint. Anyone have info on what's going up?

The Walgreens at MOA will not have a pharmacy. Fhat the wuck?