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K, great news, but this does make me more nervous about 1368 LaSalle.....I want that one more than any other project right now! Magellan is a powerhouse developer, and I will be very surprised if they don't get financing for their project. I also think 1368 Lasalle could very easily be a future con...

Log in to your Google account, if you do not have its easy to create one. The very top of the page will have a "Documents" link, click on that. On the left hand of the documents page there will be a create button, then a menu, select spreadsheet. An Excel like field will show up. Copy and ...

It's almost completely up-to-date but not very pretty. I can provide the spreadsheet and make it public or just provide frequent (monthly?) updates. I'm unaware of how to post a spreadsheet though...

Use Google Docs.

This may not be the best looking project, but PTL that we're not in Indy. This is in their downtown.



Horrifying

Mod note: The beginning of this conversation was clipped, so forgive the somewhat abrupt beginning. Crime has fallen off since the 1990s. It provides a good place for immigrants to get on their feet. It is actually one of the only successful high rise housing projects in the country. We just happen ...

Isn't part of Uptown's cachet that it's close to so many businesses? Is Meg concerned more with a Trader Joe's than with the national chain bro bars coming in? Can you be more specific about "bro bars"? Some bros drink MGD and workout, some bros smoke weed and play Madden. Tons of diversi...

I wish Meg would stop saying she is a small business owner, her balloon shop shop closed ages ago. She is just the worst in my opinion. She is too in favor of the incumbents and status quo. I can get that you do not want 20 story towers in Uptwon. Trying to shut down patios, taking pride in the fact...

I'll be the first to add something, below are shots from Europe summer 2010 http://i.imgur.com/exRfD.jpg A serious rail bridge in Germany http://i.imgur.com/ExEoJ.jpg A fancy convention center http://i.imgur.com/sz6vv.jpg Watching soccer in front an iron sculpture http://i.imgur.com/RDEQx.jpg A rail...

ha, great you linked to same ones I was thinking about.

Not so much the design, but the fact that the set back is irregular. Unless it sits on an odd parcel it is likely a poor use of land as well. Referring to the first photo. I think the Le Corbusier style tower in the park and blank wall urbanism is what really sucked about the 70s. But you see lots o...

I'm all for more density. As long as you do not have irregular facades like the dwellings above. Just make them normal and face the block. The 1970s were a bad time for new housing design, do not bring it back.

Isn't this the section that Molneau implemented her "shoulder lanes" to increase capacity without putting real money into it? How has that held up, 10 years later? As someone who drives this stretch every day I think it's still a bit better than it was, but that can change on a day to day...

Why do you guys think there is some sort of pent up demand for more restaurants and bars downtown? You can't just create an entertainment district out of nothing.

Eastside of Downtown.

This would be spendy, but why not a covered plaza/bar/nightclub block with gas heating and venting. This would piggy back the later part of the football season and make a super bowl bid probably an automatic yes. I like this idea. If done correctly meaning it could be scaleable, serving thousands d...

It's not fair to pigeon hole the entire north/northwest metro as frugal/cheap/drab. Anoka, for example, has 12+ million in city funded projects plus a few other private projects this year alone. $12 million in one year isn't too bad for a city of 17k sitting on a whopping seven square miles.. Anoka...

Hasn't McGladrey always been headquartered in Chicago.

Suburbs ethos is exclusion. After reading Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth Jackson I have a profoundly different view of the suburbs that I once did. Although suburbs did exist before WWII, the main thrust came after and what it did to the nation's urban cores ...

I hope they don't build something that puts up blank walls toward the street.

But how is this a "bust"? Yeah, some projects might not get built. Rents might go down. You might get some condo conversions. Why is this such a looming problem? That's a good question. If too many buildings/units are built, then it'll simply cause vacancies to rise and rents to fall. Unl...

From what I have heard is that the Twin Cities are too isolated for the Midwest League Western Division teams. Grand Chute is at about the same latitude but 250 miles east. Every other teams located south and east. I think the travel distances via bus are too much for A level ball. This project has ...