urbanMSP

The next step for this stretch is the north side of the street. The area especially at the intersection with University, where you have a one-story strip mall with the Burger King et. al., is probably the only remaining major development opportunity on the street, but it's a good one for the right p...

The article indicated this was a structural thing, like the extra parking spaces were only needed for support and nothing else. Idk! Which seemed to suppose that you could only start building residential or office above the top of the bluff? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, considering...

Obviously one reason for Amazon's approach to this is to get publicity out the wazoo. Mission accomplished on that front. But it's important to remember that Amazon is fully capable of doing demographic research and weighting the results. While interesting, looking at how US and Canadian cities stac...

Re: Handicapping MSP's chances I think there are two possible interpretations of Amazon's motives. One is that they want a city where they can become kings, where Jeff Bezos gets the key to the city, where local politicians fall over themselves to please the company and state politicians throw tons ...

The location is excellent, and I think I probably reflect the wishes of people on this forum when I say that I think it would be appropriate for a building of some height to go on this site, at minimum five stories. We know already that there will be an office component and it would be baffling to n...

Not exactly surprising. As others have noted, the Portland Tower is located in an area that could charitably be described as "emerging." The KA block will help, but there are still two surface lots across Portland Ave. opposite the Portland Tower and HQ Apartments. Just a block to the nort...

I think Moose has the right idea about what Nicollet Mall ought to shoot for, but I share some of amiller92's pessimism about whether the street will achieve this. I think a good comparison is Philadelphia, which has two primary retail streets in Center City. Walnut Street is a two-lane westbound st...