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- June 14th, 2023, 10:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 352747
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Two random questions/thoughts on MAC, since the conversation went there: 1. I still think it makes sense to close the Crystal Airport and develop the property with housing. 400 acres of land in a 1st ring suburb, located along the Blue Line extension. This would likely require an infill station as t...
- June 14th, 2023, 10:22 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Chroma - 113 East 26th Street
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26759
Re: Chroma - 113 East 26th Street
MCAD just bought this property to use as student housing.
https://finance-commerce.com/2023/06/mc ... -students/ (unlocked)
https://finance-commerce.com/2023/06/mc ... -students/ (unlocked)
- June 13th, 2023, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Southdale Area - Edina
- Replies: 798
- Views: 249508
Re: Southdale Area - Edina
Macy’s furniture store to be redeveloped with housing and offices. Quite overdue. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/03/16/macys-furniture-store-in-edina-to-be-redeveloped.html Here's the Environmental Analysis Worksheet (EAW): https://www.bettertogetheredina.org/7465/widgets/22453/do...
- June 13th, 2023, 9:40 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Twin Cities' National and Global Image
- Replies: 1024
- Views: 226316
Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image
I really like this one: https://newmnflag.org/designs/letoile-du-nord https://i0.wp.com/NewMNFlag.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/brandon-hundt-north-star.png?w=1000&ssl=1 I'm a tough customer, and I really like this one too. North Star, Snowflake, done. Easy to imagine this being put on hats, t...
- May 30th, 2023, 3:37 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Latest Census Estimates and Met Council Projections
- Replies: 221
- Views: 84132
Re: Latest Census Estimates and Met Council Projections
Happy population estimates day to those who celebrate. Census estimates were out a few weeks ago, but Met Council's are considered to be more accurate since they are based off of additional data points like the exact number of units added since last year, etc. https://metrocouncil.org/Data-and-Maps/...
- May 25th, 2023, 3:21 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 504743
Re: Northern Lights Express
Lower fares would be great, but I can't imagine families with multiple kids being a core market for NLX. Maybe once just to try it out, but I'm hard pressed to see how that would make sense either economically or practically, compared to driving. For college students or singles or couples, etc., sur...
- May 25th, 2023, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Vision Loss Resources Redevelopment - Lyndale & Franklin
- Replies: 48
- Views: 42219
Re: Vision Loss Resources Redevelopment - Lyndale & Franklin
It only turns away from Lyndale/Franklin because all of the old window openings were covered up long ago. There's no reason they can't put windows (and hopefully a door) back in many of those ground floor openings. I actually like saving the main building that fronts on Lyndale and Franklin, but wis...
- May 24th, 2023, 7:20 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Vision Loss Resources Redevelopment - Lyndale & Franklin
- Replies: 48
- Views: 42219
Re: Vision Loss Resources Redevelopment - Lyndale & Franklin
Hillcrest Development paid $2.8 Million for the property and will renovate it rather than tear down and redevelop. the building will be positioned to house commercial tenants seeking retail, creative office, production/light assembly/flex, warehouse, and storage uses. https://finance-commerce.com/20...
- May 17th, 2023, 11:08 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 559257
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The CAC & PAC meetings that were scheduled for this month have been pushed back to "late summer". Can anyone with an insider's view provide a sense for how seriously they are considering a "better bus" alternative? Since the onset of this study in 2017, it's been pretty clea...
- May 17th, 2023, 10:55 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: The Dayton's Project
- Replies: 354
- Views: 256589
Re: The Dayton's Project
Unless United Health or Wells Fargo or Target are moving a division here, I don't see how they'll get the building leased up in under 5 years.
- May 11th, 2023, 3:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 92257
Re: Green Line LRT
My hot take on this area (going on 10 years now), is that this location east of the Lafayette Bridge is where the OMF should've been built in the first place. Taking that idea further, both the OMF and CHS Field could have been built about 1,000 feet further northeast, as that would've opened up the...
- May 11th, 2023, 2:25 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Lowa46 - 46th & Hiawatha Cub Foods Mixed Use
- Replies: 123
- Views: 129850
Re: Lowa46 - 46th & Hiawatha Cub Foods Mixed Use
There's a coffee shop now open in The Shale (apt building behind DQ / south of the old strip mall): Falls Coffee https://fallscoffee.com/ Very cool to have a year-round option so close to the park, even though IMO it would've been a better fit in the Portico condo building on Minnehaha (across from ...
- May 11th, 2023, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Do we really have a massive housing shortage?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7892
Re: Do we really have a massive housing shortage?
IMO the "80,000 units in the next 5 years" is probably somewhat building & construction trades propaganda, not a scientific number. It is true that there's been a bit of stagnation in the metro area's population since 2020, as more households than ever before are able to decouple their...
- May 11th, 2023, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 504743
Re: Northern Lights Express
I know of some Amtrak routes that make use of a wye to reverse into stations that are on dead-end tracks, but that usually happens in pretty close proximity to the station. And in both cases I'm aware of, this is more or less in the middle of the route and is done to serve a major metro's union stat...
- May 4th, 2023, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18058
Re: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
I pulled the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage campus conversation into this smaller thread, as I figure it will be an ongoing conversation for a couple years at least. Biz Journals had an article today (locked): www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/05/03/wells-fargo-south-minneapolis-campus-redevelopme...
- May 4th, 2023, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis 2023 Elections - City Council
- Replies: 23
- Views: 27037
Re: Minneapolis 2023 Elections - City Council
As someone not particularly enthused to add another 25-year old DSA member to the City Council, I hope someone at least gives Aurin a run for her money. If she wins and conducts herself like Andrew Johnson e.g. being a swing vote between the progressive* wing and the more moderate wing, she'll be a ...
- May 4th, 2023, 9:52 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 346959
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
With the US Bank branch nearby, wasn't there something wacky where they had to open the new branch before closing the old one (to make way for Rafter), something to do with federal banking rules? If Wells Fargo is announcing the closure of this branch and we haven't heard anything about a developmen...
- May 4th, 2023, 8:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 504743
Re: Northern Lights Express
So the new Great River route could eventually be Duluth to Chicago, by way of stops at Target Field Station and SPUD? And that would effectively replace one trip of the NLX (in each direction)? Or is it more likely that one trip would skip Target Field Station and head directly to SPUD? While not id...
- May 4th, 2023, 8:16 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis 2023 Elections - City Council
- Replies: 23
- Views: 27037
Re: Minneapolis 2023 Elections - City Council
It's nuts that no one in Ward 2 wants to run for Council against Wonsley. Especially crazy considering that Wonsley doesn't even seek the DFL endorsement. Anyone that had run for the DFL endorsement would have only needed to beat "no endorsement" and they'd have the party apparatus behind ...
- May 2nd, 2023, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line LRT
- Replies: 629
- Views: 250324
Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)
https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Accessibility-Advisory-Committee/2023/TAAC-Meeting-5-03-23/2023-05-03-Blue-Line-Lake-update-TAAC.aspx Renovation of Blue Line Lake St/Midtown Station going in front of TAAC on 5/3/23. Improve customer experience: cleanliness, comfo...