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- March 4th, 2016, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Revel / Target Store- 1300 West Lake St
- Replies: 195
- Views: 33012
Re: Revel / Target Store- 1300 West Lake St
Excited to see this taking shape. Why, I bet you could even say I'm RevelStoked.
- February 25th, 2016, 4:54 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 371436
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
They said the number one question (or hostile accusation) they got from residents and passers-by was if the building was 100% low-income housing. (It is not) This should come as a surprise to none of us, but in the minds of a lot of people there is a perfect 1:1 correlation between density/apartmen...
- February 25th, 2016, 4:39 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Presidential Election 2016
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 91264
Re: Presidential Election 2016
Oh... so now biology is destiny.I'm sorry. What's sexist about arguing that women should support women?
- February 25th, 2016, 1:57 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: The Commons - Downtown East Park
- Replies: 687
- Views: 133196
Re: The Commons - Downtown East Park
...Eden Prairie Must Die?!?Elliot Park ... Mill District ... EP ... MD ...
EPMD!
Edited to add one that notes the large portion of the area taken up by North Central's campus: Entrenched Proselytizers Minimize Development.
- February 17th, 2016, 10:39 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 494
- Replies: 103
- Views: 18169
Re: Interstate 494
Not unrelated to this problem is that these cities failed to develop a rational arterial grid to get between neighboring cities and neighborhoods. They built up around on the assumption the highways would always be the useful arterial. This. So much this. The results include massive amounts of &quo...
- February 16th, 2016, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Stadium LRT Station, Ped Bridge & Plaza (MSFA block)
- Replies: 466
- Views: 79868
Re: Stadium LRT Station, Ped Bridge & Plaza (MSFA block)
Co-sponsored by 89.9, KMOJ!The People's Station.
- February 12th, 2016, 2:14 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Mayo Clinic Square
- Replies: 512
- Views: 91061
Re: Mayo Clinic Square
This is what happens when you fail to yield... to your hunger pangs! Jack Link's(TM): Not An Everyday, Pedestrian Experience.And on the hour, every hour, a body goes flying across Hennepin Ave.As long as the complex includes an animatronic Hall of Sasquatches, I'll be happy with this addition.
- January 27th, 2016, 11:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Revel / Target Store- 1300 West Lake St
- Replies: 195
- Views: 33012
Re: Lake & Fremont Apartments (Cheapo site) - 1300 West Lake
What's really amazing is that this nimbitude is manifesting itself in one of the most sprawled-out metropolises in the country. There are literally almost two hundred distinct suburban jurisdictions, of varying densities and distances from the core, that one could choose if one were really so easily...
- January 23rd, 2016, 4:17 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Rice Creek Commons (TCAAP site) - Arden Hills
- Replies: 105
- Views: 232378
Re: Twin Cities Ammunition Plant - Arden Hills
LOL @ the notion that Arden Hills was "stretching" (in mindset) to accommodate even the lower of the two densities. If you're going to have to maintain a given amount of infrastructure, why wouldn't you want a larger well of taxpayers to aid you in the process? Have these people never even...
- January 21st, 2016, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Motiv Apartments - 2320 Colfax Avenue S
- Replies: 846
- Views: 110581
Re: Motiv Apartments - 2320 Colfax Avenue S
PleasepleasepleaseGod, let their marketing department choose the tagline "Motiv Means Opportunity".
- December 22nd, 2015, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 164839
Re: Gold Line (Gateway Corridor BRT)
Hate to break it to you guys, but transportation has pretty much always been motivated by land development. That includes transit and railroads as well as highways. The TCRT company never made a profit on fares alone, Thomas Lowry was a real estate magnate who profited from opening up and connectin...
- November 28th, 2015, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Traffic Enforcement
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6211
Re: Traffic Enforcement
If we do add / re-prioritize officers toward traffic enforcement, we'll also have to ensure that they truly focus on people driving dangerously... rather than using their newfound ubiquity to selectively harass racial minorities over minor violations.
- September 29th, 2015, 3:18 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1404
- Views: 642318
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Re: the Dan Patch bridge, another area of concern would involve how the crossing would dump out into Savage. Vernon Avenue (the approach road for the south end of the bridge) currently hits Highway 13 at a T-intersection just east of the railroad overpass. Not only would this generate visibility iss...
- September 16th, 2015, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Motiv Apartments - 2320 Colfax Avenue S
- Replies: 846
- Views: 110581
Re: Motiv Apartments - 2320 Colfax Avenue S
Lhena, in the parlor, with the historic designation.
- July 14th, 2015, 3:07 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
- Replies: 349
- Views: 109705
Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Sometimes, when post-workout hunger gnaws at me, I go to Arby's because it's quicker than getting all turned-out for something downtown...
- July 14th, 2015, 2:57 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 371436
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
Perhaps the factual distinction underlying Anondson's exception is the physical irreplaceability (within current human lifetimes, anyway) of large, truly aged trees? If we mistakenly knock out beautiful and/or functional older buildings, their styles and functions can at least be imitated when we re...
- June 11th, 2015, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Revel / Target Store- 1300 West Lake St
- Replies: 195
- Views: 33012
Re: CPM Cheapo Site proposal - 1300 West Lake St
Jesus H. Christ. "Several at the sparsely attended meeting objected to the way the towers would dwarf pedestrians, arguing that it would create an unpleasant sidewalk environment." In a metro with over 200 independent suburbs at varying levels of density, how and why do people with this s...
- May 29th, 2015, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Minnesota Transportation Funding (General)
- Replies: 731
- Views: 103695
Re: 2015 Transportation Funding Proposals
The traffic volumes at 17 and 42 do raise eyebrows why they built an interchange there I'm an office temp by day with a Shakopee delivery gig as my evening/weekend "insurance policy", and I definitely concur with regard to low traffic volume. This one owes to a combination of the county's...
- April 3rd, 2015, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 583454
Re: Nicollet Mall Reconstruction Project
This is why one should always travel with a Bear or two. Paws on parade are a powerful deterrent to problem humans.Nicollet Mall's problems is mostly having to endure some lame insults, such as gay slurs
- April 3rd, 2015, 10:16 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 583454
Re: Nicollet Mall Reconstruction Project
I also see “blacks are more likely to make a ruckus; there pretty clearly is a behavior issue; a bit of it is mental illness, but most of it's not” and “a mild fight-or-flight response kicked in.” And yet the argument still seems to be that Betty Burnsville is the one who’s nervous and narrow-minde...