urbanMSP

Can't wait to sit waiting for lights at the extra eight grade crossings, secure in the knowledge that wasting all the time of all of the thousands of Blue Line riders is saving a couple dozen homeowners from the unthinkable horror of having the speeding traffic on Lyndale be replaced by a quiet elec...

Or, more likely, just let it decay for years like their other riverfront holdings.

LaSalle Plaza has sold for a fire-sale price , which will apparently allow Hempel to make all sorts of improvements, some of which are good, some of which are terminally car-brained. I'm hoping they're motivated and able to fill in the retail spaces (and that the pickleball courts and whatever are ...

It did happen when 35W was closed, though. Park and Portland got their buffered bike lanes turned into overflow lanes, and even so I heard a lot from my south metro coworkers about how bad Lyndale and Blaisdell were for those years.

Psycho Suzi's is closing on August 19th. End of an era, but I've gotta imagine someone else takes a shot at running a restaurant with the only riverfront patio in Northeast.

Hey, that's only 25 more leases. They just need a closer's mindset.

It's nice to see that the Route 17 improvements are happening with this pick. They had previously said that the changes wouldn't go into effect until the 3rd Avenue Bridge was complete.

Yeah, I got the impression that the change was primarily to get Northstar funding stability, and a hedge against the other suburban counties doing the same thing with the Red/Orange/Gold lines. (Unless BRT lines are funded differently?)

Yeah, same. Concordia/St. Anthony are already just two lanes, converting them to two-way roads (and opening up development lots between them and the narrowed freeway) would go pretty far towards calming them.

Right, the absolute best case scenario for the at-grade proposals they showed is basically Olson Memorial Highway, but it's more likely to be Hiawatha with no Lake or Franklin overpasses. I really like the Local/Regional concept. Assuming that the local two-way streets shown are the currently-existi...

Yeah, HERC is massively overblown as a pollution source relative to the freeways and Riverside plant, etc. Other power plants in Minneapolis include the Main Energy Plant on the East Bank campus (natural gas) SE Steam Plant by the Stone Arch Bridge (barely ever runs) and a hydro plant on each of the...

Yeah. I'm guessing they weren't able to get financing secured so they're trying to sell to someone who can.

Which worked with HenCen, so it's not unheard of.

Says 2022 on the PW website. Guess they forgot?

LaSalle Plaza has sold for a fire-sale price , which will apparently allow Hempel to make all sorts of improvements, some of which are good, some of which are terminally car-brained. I'm hoping they're motivated and able to fill in the retail spaces (and that the pickleball courts and whatever are s...

Downtown is back, baby.

ETA: Unironically, though, this is extremely good news. The store has been absolutely packed right up to the 6pm closing time any time I've stopped in there after work in the past couple years. Hopefully further extensions to 9 or 10 are also in the cards.

Really good to see some of these regional center downtowns filling back in.

Here's a Strib article on the same project. I doubt they're thinking of this, but they should relocate the Amtrak station to here from downtown Fargo, which doesn't appear to have enough space between the cross streets for the Empire Builder to stop without blocking at least one of them. Not that it...

According to this report on the Wisconsin passenger rail program, Great River service is expected to start in September 2023, though it also mentions further down that Minnesota is still attempting to secure state funding for NLX, so it may not be fully up to date.

The most recent analysis on the MnDOT website leaves it up in the air whether the maintenance facility would be in Sandstone or Duluth. Presumably a layover yard would need to be built in Duluth anyway, so hopefully the maintenance facility ends up there too. Not sure about additional layover facili...