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The Treasure Island logo is just so bad.

What suburban MSP corporation has the oldest headquarters?

As far as I know, UH and GM have recently expanded or refreshed their suburban offices, so it's unlikely that either would move into the city any time soon.

Or perhaps the second floor will be offices? Fred Melo isn't one to mix that up, but maybe it was confusingly described. Glad that Big Daddy's will be a tenant in the new building, but presumably they're not going to operate somewhere when their existing building is demolished. All told, this projec...

Neat photo of the HCMC Gala at the Armory on their facebook page.

Thanks for sharing. Prospect Park/Tower Hill is the smartest neighborhood in MSP in terms of planning for the future. Instead of opposing changes and losing, they chose instead to better shape those changes and improve their surroundings. Smart NIMBYism.

That editorial is like a fine wine. Just a work of art.

The only new ideas are the new Gold Line, the connection of Midtown to Ford And it's not the first time a Riverview-Midtown through-route has been discussed on the forums. Great ideas that keep coming up. Yes, you're right of course, I meant "new" as in "not formally proposed or stud...

This is the "7 Minute Abs" argument. If we have money to do all that, how come we don't have money to do X, Y, and Z, too? I mean, if making a kickass transit system was our only object, then this'd all be a subway, and we'd have lines running N/S through Minneapolis, and so on. But my map...

alexschief, I get it's a fantasy map and you did a really nice job with the professional design, but it's not clear who would use some of these lines. For example, who are the intended users of the Gold or Cyan lines? Seems like they'd require double transfers to provide that much use. My Gold and ...

It's definitely not the world's most pressing priority, but it's a pretty global convention that primary colors are used for the most central and important routes. Having a lines that are more similar in color (i.e. "magenta," "violet," and "plum") is a lot less confusi...

The holy grail for downtown St. Paul's restaurant scene would be a Gavin Kaysen restaurant. I know, good governance and all that, but seriously, all the tax breaks for a Gavin Kaysen restaurant in Lowertown.

I guess it all depends on your frame of reference, but I'd argue that Minneapolis really is not "booming." It's growing steadily, and the population is shifting around geographically, but it's not comparable to a Sun Belt city like Austin or Dallas, a shelter for global capital like New Yo...

Last month I wrote an article for the main site , criticizing the current METRO projects and suggesting three new lines which would sorta ameliorate the system's issues while still mostly relying on legacy freight ROW, much of it abandoned. I made my own simple map to accompany the story, but obviou...

Do people really not care about what the exterior of the building they'll be living in looks like? Odd that the website only has shots from the interior units. I mean, it's the one thing you can't see from inside. There's a great apocryphal story about French intelligentsia having lunch daily in th...

What a mistake that would be. The D-Line is the best transit project currently underway in the Twin Cities. It will improve travel for an enormous number of people, many of whom do not own cars, and for a fraction of the cost of either LRT route. If the DFL is able to take back the statehouse, secur...

How feasible and likely is it that Hennepin County is able to consolidate the Juvenile Court buildings on 5th and Park? The land they're sitting on with the building and adjacent parking lot is now perfect for residential development overlooking The Commons. Along with the Family Court building, the...

City should focus on the B, C, and D better bus lines, and start pushing the Met Council to begin the formal planning and design process for Midtown rail. All of those projects will do far more for transportation and development than a streetcar. The money collected for the streetcar could be spent ...

Mpls is gonna take an L on this one. That said... 1. At least it's wrapped, the whole way around, at 6-7 stories. 2. I think the design of the apartment portion is pretty decent, actually. 3. This is a great excuse to tear up other nearby lots and demolish other nearby parking structures. Would real...

Not arguing your overall point, but it is a unique project in a unique location. A three story stick-built off of Como Avenue isn't going to be competing with this place on price. Based on anecdotal data, I'll bet this place crushes it with the wealthy-parented foreign student population. Obviously...

If they're charging $3.00 - 3.30/NSF, than there is definitely still not enough housing in this area. That's incredible.