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- July 11th, 2014, 9:04 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington - General Topics
- Replies: 332
- Views: 137547
Re: Toro Headquarters Expansion - Bloomington
The expansion was completed a couple of days ago in a flurry to try to make the deadline for the unveiling Wednesday and the century celebration yesterday. Here's a link to the Strib story with a photo of the building.http://www.startribune.com/business/266692351.html
- May 15th, 2014, 10:49 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Mowers: manual reel push vs. gas-powered vs. electric
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3430
Re: Mowers: manual reel push vs. gas-powered vs. electric
My wife and I have a reel mower and an electric. The reel is 21 inch wide and works really well on my small lawn. Obviously it can not mulch leaves in the fall so the wife got an electric mower for a $100 from her employer - Toro. I've only used it a couple times and it doesn't have the oomph moder...
- April 17th, 2014, 10:20 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Latitude 45 - 301 Washington Avenue South
- Replies: 374
- Views: 87020
Re: Latitude 45 - (301 Washington Avenue South)
They really are cruising. I was working 10 days ago and took pictures from the roof of my building and they weren't even finished getting all of the dirt out.
- April 4th, 2014, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
That was more a commentary on the mayor saying it multiple times whenever she talks about the situation. It's like Kevin Nealon doing his subliminal man bit. Eventually everyone will believe.
It's nice to know though, that because the situation might affect me, my opinion is invalid.
It's nice to know though, that because the situation might affect me, my opinion is invalid.
- April 4th, 2014, 2:12 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
If the mayor says it enough, I guess it must be true.(and I believe it really was -- because the freight should have been in SLP, and the reasons why have nothing to do with wealthy Kenilworthians)
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- April 3rd, 2014, 10:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
[ BUT, what I am saying is that if a "Move the Bikepath" cohort emerged that included "the bicyclists", then wouldn't that be cutting the legs out from under the Kenilworth crowd? As interesting as that could make things, I think that the Kenilworth group would just refocus liti...
- March 25th, 2014, 11:39 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Thanks.The Xcel letter can be found at https://www.facebook.com/download/65500 ... 202014.pdf
- March 25th, 2014, 10:46 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
I would love to go to the meeting, but a coworker is out and I can't get off work. I have been looking to try to find a copy of a letter to post from Xcel Energy to James Alexander in regards to the substation in SLP that would be affected if the reroute were to go through. It was pretty clear that ...
- March 2nd, 2014, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 206567
Re: Minnesota Multi Purpose Stadium
Nice pic!
I was amazed to see the amount of demo work that was done over the weekend.
I was amazed to see the amount of demo work that was done over the weekend.
- February 26th, 2014, 11:18 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Does anyone have any idea on where McLaughlin stands on this? In the October CMC meeting all members (except Rybak) voted to recommend the shallow tunnel option, including McLaughlin. Recently McLaughlin seems more dismissive of the shallow tunnel option (note the "little cities" comment ...
- February 23rd, 2014, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 206567
Re: Minnesota Multi Purpose Stadium
It seems the charges took a little more than just the remaining ring beam. Do you suppose the corner portions that came down were planned?
- February 20th, 2014, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Hodges and Mclaughlin have their minds made up I guess. It doesn't seem to matter that the railroad company that plans on using the track has the same concerns about this re-route plan as it has had with all of the others. The risk for derailment is a real concern with the curves and the length of t...
- February 17th, 2014, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 206567
Re: Minnesota Multi Purpose Stadium
Top of the back wall of the Dome just collapsed. Construction workers on the webcam are all standing around and talking- looks like it may not have been intentional. I had noticed the same thing after checking out the webcam when I returned from lunch. I called up my brother and told him it looked ...
- February 13th, 2014, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
I was there last night and it was great to hear so many voices getting to have their say. The article in the Strib by Doyle was disappointing and the crowd estimate was absurd. The auditorium was about 90% full and had to be 3 times what Doyle stated. Terry from Tran Systems was just a good ol' boy ...
- February 11th, 2014, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Vikings Stadium Miscellaneous Discussion
- Replies: 1660
- Views: 224690
Re: Minnesota Multi Purpose Stadium
Yep, everyone was loving "the worse venue in professional sports." Even ESPN and Fox play off the dome's horrible rep, including counting down the 10 worst Metrodome moments earlier this year. How many of those moments were football-related? I'm asking honestly. No one I know of seriously...
- February 4th, 2014, 6:42 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
IMO the Met Council/Governor paid to get the study that they wanted. Now that's just silly. This study makes their job MORE difficult, not less. I expect the cost of the TranSystem plan is going to come in around $125 million. It'll be close enough to shallow tunnels to be a coin toss, budget-wise....
- February 3rd, 2014, 10:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Here is a little perspective from TC&W. It sheds light to the "promises" supposedly made by SLP. http://www.southwestjournal.com/voices/ ... -on-sw-lrt
- February 3rd, 2014, 4:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1281056
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
If this new freight re-route thing is actually viable, how the hell did we ever arrive at the whole 2-story berms situation? (Which, in turn led to the tunnels through Kenilworth situation) In retrospect, that is just really embarassing. The bottom line seems to be that a whole bunch of animosity (...
- January 30th, 2014, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nic on Fifth - (290' - 26 Stories)
- Replies: 1033
- Views: 222885
Re: Nic on Fifth - (290' - 26 Stories)
Funny, their Nic's Penthouses pic is taken from the top of the Churchill apartments. The Nic's views will be nothing close to that.
- January 22nd, 2014, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MN Highway 7
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14505
Re: MN Highway 7
The new Wooddale intersection is TERRIBLE. If exiting onto Wooddale from 7 West, you basically have to take over the crosswalk in order to see if traffic is coming from the left. The center left turn lanes onto 7 are very quick and not well designed. Who in the world designed this thing? The initia...