urbanMSP

I don't believe they can just make the area a parking lot and it is not on the Land Use Application portal as of today.
But it could be it is on pause
Here is the project in question. It was approved for grant money last year.
http://lupedevelopment.com/projects/lak ... ling-west/

https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/file/2022-00504 Grant funding requested for 600 W lake st. It will be renovated and reopened as a restaurant space. Urban Outfitters will close next month officially ending the chain retail phase of Henn/Lake. I can no longer find the ground level retail space for the ...

New Bde Maka Ska pavilion will break ground next week
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/news/2 ... next-week/

TDT posted a picture last Friday of the wall for this development. A poster on Skyscrapercity posted it this morning https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/900-marquette-440-feet-31-stories.2366365/#post-178700344 Overall this is a big bet by Hines on the future of downtown. Between this and north l...

Demo for the former grocery store on the kmart site has been approved and will be demolished this year before the post office moves out of the other building.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -demo.html

Glad this is back!
Hopefully 800 Washington Ave(if it breaks ground this year) proves to be a success and inspires other developers to build mid sized condo developments

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... lease.html

"Canteen One has signed a lease for around 44,000 square feet in North Loop, where it will relocate to from its current office in Golden Valley."

See if they can host an event like the lynlake street art series. They could make a large mural that reflects downtown and the city vs a bland wall. That or make a green wall as they will never be able to keep it "like new"

YTD Minneapolis has permitted 2,547 units with April having 1,521 permitted units

https://www.startribune.com/and-boom-su ... 600170112/

Wells fargo has a min number of 3 days a week in the office.
Im going to guess target even if it doesn't have a company wide min days in office different departments or teams will.
I fully expect there to be a soft(or not soft) push by Target for get alot of people back in more then once a month

CB2's last day will be April 24th. Hopefully this means the redevelopment will start soon.
https://www.startribune.com/cb2-to-clos ... 600164627/

A sneaker shop is opening at 2835 Hennepin ave https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2022/04/04/black-owned-sneaker-shop-opens-in-uptown.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_46&cx_artPos=2#cxrecs_s TDT is also claiming cowboy slims is plotting a return to there space in uptow. Uptown ta...

I think compared to other large metro areas this isnt bad. From the NYT: "New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco lost a total of over 700,000 people from July 2020 to July 2021" Sadly the comment section of the star tribune currently is and im sure FB soon will be feasting over t...

It did not. Much of it was attributed to covid closures of college campuses in both counties as well as early retirements. Crime in both counties was given as a possible reason but not the driving factor

https://m.startribune.com/population-de ... 600158882/

Very large declines in Ramsey and Hennepin county populations last year. 13000 for Hennepin alone

This was very common among larger metro areas last year from San Fran to NYC

Emerson and lake

Cheba hut is opening in the Asher’s retail space

I doubt they could really pull anything off without the cities help right now. It seems like they are consolidating there plans to MOA after the failures in other markets
https://tcbmag.com/too-big-to-fail-mall ... challenge/

Uptown pourhouse has closed indefinitely due to unforeseen circumstances. uptown tavern has also paused operations citing crime concerns for there staff but have stated they expect to re open in the late spring. Cowboy slims have renewed there liquor license but have no plans to re open. https://www...

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -mpls.html
The Minnesota Department of Education will relocate to Northeast Minneapolis from Roseville. They are leasing 95,086 square foot space in Stinson Office Park.