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It will be interesting to see what becomes of the MN Orchestra, but orchestras throughout the world have been and will continue to struggle (see below). As far as the Orchestra Hall and the renovations are concerned, I wonder what the board has in mind. Are they hoping to only attract visiting acts?...

We are a agribusiness center (especially with Cargill), but Chicago does have better global connectivity. That we are. Minneapolis-based companies are market leaders in beef and pork packing, turkeys, animal feed, terminal grain handling, corn and soybean exports, flour milling, soybean crushing, e...

The company has announced that it plans to move about 100 top executives and add another 100 jobs at a technology center the firm will develop in conjunction with its new headquarters. There is plenty of room in either downtown Minneapolis or downtown St. Paul for 200 ADM employees. This would be a ...

I hope they provide new space for the Tea House when they redevelop. Though its quality has declined a bit since it opened, Tea House is still the best Chinese food within walking distance of campus. The Tea House is redeveloping? That's a bit surprising as their business seems to be going downhill...

I don't totally agree with that. Take charlotte for example. When Bank of America was completed in 92, it was followed by several towers over 600 ft. Their skyline is impressive to me and full for a city in the population realm of cleveland. Anyway, does anyone know the latest info on what the clas...

^Yes, but retiredbanker is not speculating. He is directly involved with multiple developers. And it takes much more than one year to put together these projects. Thanks for the response Avian. My question is why does it have to take so long? We have had multiple proposals presented to us over the ...

I, like the majority of people here, would love to see additional towers added to the Minneapolis skyline. However, all the speculation over the past year has boiled down to nonsense. While I understand there is a process, there has been nothing reported, no timetables, and no tower renderings relea...

Forbes recently released its list of the World's Most Inventive Cities and Minneapolis came in at #9. The intellects at Forbes should have put a little more effort into finding a better photo of Minneapolis. Their population numbers are wrong too. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efee45jeje/9-minneapo...

I think it's safe to assume that we all saw this coming , right? Property owner Minneapolis Venture LLC filed suit late Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court against the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, claiming that negotiations over the land next to the stadium site have been “perplexin...

I've tried posting comments over at http://savedinkytown.com/ and they have been deleted every time. That being said, how can these people take themselves serious if they can't even have civil dialogue? These people are very obnoxious and because of their attitude(s) I will never do business with th...

It's time for Gordon, Hofstede, Tuthill, and Goodman to move on. I want MPLS prosper and it won't happen with those four around.

"Minneapolis is a miracle place," he said, praising the city's receptiveness to diverse architectural influences. "You have an architectural center here, but you don't know it." - Philip Johnson, Star Tribune: Sunday, May 6, 1990 It's too bad that neither Ryan Companies nor Hump...

But architecture junior Jake Benecasa said Dinkytown’s “unique charm” is more important than building more student housing. “It will be a big, sore thumb in the middle of town,” he said. Unique charm? :? Maybe this area is unique to some suburban kids or to those who come from rural areas, but hone...

I have almost zero respect for my elected officials.

Only almost zero..?

Oh I'm sorry. I have zero respect Minneapolis officials.

the cities will never merge...there is too much history and parochialism for that ever to happen. maybe in 100 years when everyone is using flying cars or something. Hence the reason we will continue losing ground to our peer cities such as Seattle, Denver, and Portland and be surpassed by the like...

Just look at how well running its own utilities has worked out for Detroit! Red Herring alert! Seattle has a municipal electric utility, its just like Detroit too. Yes, Seattle does have a public utility, but it's not like it started last year or 10 years ago. It started over a century ago when Sea...

Many cities have municipal owned systems......basically they "buy" the infrastructure along with people and equipment. All I can say for the last 13 yrs I have had "public" power and I have saved 50%....yes 50%. How many of those cities had a Fortune 500 utility company already ...

I have almost zero respect for my elected officials. There are pot holes on every street and downed trees throughout the city and these morons think the the city can afford to run utilities. There will be major repercussions if this happens. Even if this doesn't happen, Xcel should move its headquar...

Looks like MPLS-STPL has lost another Fortune 500 company. Spartan Stores Inc. has bought Nash Finch Co. in an all-stock deal valued at $1.3 billion. The Twin Cities area has recently been on the losing end of retaining corporate headquarters. We have lost Bemis, Northwest Airlines, Travelers, ATK, ...

So, I don't know if this affects the towers and Wells deal, but a friend's brother was just laid off from WF yesterday along with 200 other people from the Home Mortgage office. Signs of anything bigger in their future staffing?? 200? It's odd none of our local media outlets have covered these layo...