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I totally agree with you in principle, but you're not likely to see any small-scale developments (anywhere, really) because there are no more small developers. I think there's an economy of scale here, where you get a lot more bang for your buck to redevelop a full half-block, rather than a small 45...

This is just me, but I would really love to see some traditional "civic architecture" in this stadium. As someone said (maybe in this forum, maybe in another), wild and crazy art is fine when it's on display in the Walker; when it's a public building that many of us will see every day, it ...

I think the proposal is to increase the tax from 0.25% to 0.5%. That, along with the sales-tax broadening scheme of Gov. Dayton, would increase annual incomes for the CTIB to something like ~$250M per annum. I belive this comes with the stipulation that the CTIB would take on 100% of operating subsi...

I'm pretty sure I saw one of the Type IIs in service this morning, as the front car of a 3-car northbound train downtown (around 8am or so). Either that, or it was an old car repainted with the new METRO livery.

Long term, I'd love to see a line like this continued on to Worthington and Sioux City and/or Sioux Falls (my hometown). The state of South Dakota has no passenger rail service (except for a tourist train near Mt. Rushmore).

(I know that Sioux Falls isn't technically outstate Minnesota, but it's not far from the MN border, and shares a lot of cultural similarities with MN, kind of like Fargo. I couldn't find any comparable forums to this for SF development.) I grew up in Sioux Falls, and I saw that they are moving forwa...

Sorry for sparking off a firestorm here. My reply was a bit off the cuff, and I agree with all of the criticisms of it offered above. I don't live in the neighborhood, but I do frequent the area and play softball at the Commons occasionally. The article linked above seems to indicate that the concer...

And I think there is going to be a big gathering for people to oppose this project.....according to an snippet I saw in the Strib or Biz Journal..... Which is just stupid. Presently, this lot is completely vacant (except for, I believe, weeds and a picnic table). Prime location, fits the context of...

Gosh now I feel old for graduating in 2008.

Heh. Try 1996

Try that's when my mom was born!

Is this a typo? This is seriously blowing my mind. If you really mean this statement literally, you cannot possibly be more than like 4 years old.

Am I missing something here?

I first saw the new LCD messages last Thursday (on my way to the Hobbit midnight showing).

Big News!

http://www.startribune.com/local/minnea ... 42191.html

Hmm. That link is broken now... but a Google search shows the same headline, although it is broken too. Did the Strib take this item down? Was this news not ready to be announced?

I think HCMC is Brutiful.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but in my mind, calling Brutalism "beautiful" or lauding it because of its historic significance is just another false equivalence. Barren, hulking, and hostile should never be words used to describe civic structures.

This is general thread for the CTIB. I believe we had one on the old site, but I couldn't find one here. Anyway... Recently, news broke that Governor Dayton and the DFL legislature will consider an increased sales tax, to fund transit. The quoted amount is 0.5%. Does anyone know if this would be add...

The fact that Rosedale is so financially successful makes it all the more puzzling to me that they couldn't fill that huge Borders space with something better than a furniture store. The lack of a bookstore really makes it a much less attractive mall to visit, in my opinion.

Sounds like none of you have had to deal with wheelchair loading on a coach-style express bus. I ride on SW Transit often, and to get a wheelchair on, the bus driver has to: 1) Get out of his seat, walk to the middle of the bus, and collapse the seats near the wheelchair door. 2) Get out of the bus ...

Floating slab is being installed in the U of M transitway this week. (Tcmetro mentioned that this was in place last week, but I think he just meant the 'trenches' into which the floating slab is being seated.) The slabs themselves are ~20' long by ~4' wide by ~6" thick, with solid rubber pads s...

This MN Daily article says that the lower level will be a church -- the same congregation that used to meet at the old church on this site.

Walked past the site this morning, and the old Mercil's building was being torn down. I assume the old Noodles building and the house on the south end of the site will follow suit soon.

The concrete roadway has been poured on the Washington Transit Mall as far west as Church Street. The only remaining unpaved portion is from Church St to the Washington bridge. The East Bank station is close to being structurally complete, and the station signs went in earlier this week. Rail has ye...