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Yeah, not sure what the office vacancy levels are like in St. Anthony Main, but I could definitely see some of that space getting converted to a boutique hotel.

Does anyone know if they are building out all of the track junctions/switches needed for BLRT as part of the SWLRT project? Although BLRT will now go up 7th rather than Olson, it was always proposed to leave that track junction and cross 7th/Olson at grade. I have to imagine some of that was includ...

Heaven forbid people are able to sit at a bar or restaurant and enjoy a view of the river.

I have no idea about actual vehicle counts, but when 35W was under construction through south Minneapolis (not fully closed), the traffic impacts were very significant on all of the parallel surface streets. It was a major relief for the surrounding residents to have that work completed.

Not to mention all of the impacts to other traffic that you generate by removing the grade separation. Traffic lights are more frequent and cycles are longer, and the impacts ripple across the area. It really does boggle my mind that people think pushing this amount of traffic (or even a fraction th...

Only if they're able to work out air rights with the adjacent property owner to cut in some more windows on the back side of the building.

I don't think the Dinner Theater is any sort of trouble, at least not by outward signs. I've seen decent crowds there and they seem to advertise heavily whenever a new show comes out. I didn't mean to suggest that they were in trouble financially, only that they're sitting on a big piece of land th...

Makes you wonder how much longer the dinner theater will be able to hold on.

I still think that it's profoundly silly that we're even discussing removing grade separation here. If you can't even get half of the people on this forum to agree that it's a good idea, just imagine how this will play in broader constituencies.

Yes, and it sounds like the proponents also could have moved to table the motion, but they didn't. Here's the Strib's write-up. This chunk towards the end of the article seems particularly damning, almost as if the arch-progressive block was more interested in using the issue as an election wedge is...

Frey was absolutely going to veto this, and the council definitely didn't have the votes to override, so it was dead either way.

Based off of the renderings, I'm pretty confident that TAB is right.

https://bkvgroup.com/projects/shelby-commons/

Note also that the Border Avenue extension to Glenwood is located right next to this project. If that's still a thing?

$976 million budget for 28000 students? If my calculator is to be believed then they are spending 34,857 per student. I have no idea what the typical student costs but that strikes me as a bit high (especially so given student performance in MPS). Not sure how that jibes with this quote from the ar...

I looked it up because I was curious, and I was honestly really surprised how few flights were happening at St. Paul -- around 40k per year, which is about 1/3 of what's happening at Flying Cloud. That said, I think that the nature of the flights out of St. Paul is a different mix than the other rel...

I think that the St. Cloud airport is just a little too far out. They've tried for years to market it as an option for people living in the Northwest suburbs, but it's never caught on. Paine Field near Seattle is trying to develop itself as a back up airport option with some success, but it's much c...

Hard to believe that was the outcome, when the teacher's union was negotiating against a board made up of stern capitalist pencil pushers... [checks notes] endorsed by the teacher's union.

I also really appreciate the graphic design of it. I'm not sure that putting a snowflake on the flag so conspicuously is what Meet Minneapolis would recommend, though...

I feel like I've heard talk about FIS moving to the third level near the existing location, so that might be the plan. I also understand that both of the existing trams are approaching the end of their lifecycle, so there may be more ambitious plans for those when they get replaced. With the extensi...

They're no longer proposing the taxiway connector at the southeast end of the parallel runways -- that's a change that could have eliminated a lot of taxiing the long way around the terminal and simplified ground operations significantly.

Looks like Minneapolis added mostly single person households.