urbanMSP

yall are arguing like there's not tons of overlapping analysis and solutions between your perspectives. maybe stealing should have guaranteed consequences that don't involve overly harsh prison time, address theft rings and get help for the people who are stealing out of need. That can be independe...

Lol Target closes at 6pm, I literally couldn't support them when I LIVED downtown. Get out of here with all this pro-corporate shit. Target Lake St. was looted and they rebuilt the entire store to make it better. This whole store has been a middle finger to our downtown.

Defund Target!

Wow. The situation must have been dire indeed for them to consider that alternative.

The implication there is that the Vikings he cooked for were the actual Vikings and not the football team. Which would be kind of cool if so. It would be kind of cool, but if that's the case, I give these places only 6 months. I'm just not sure how large a market exists for porridge, dried fish, an...

Did anyone attend the “Warehouse District Live” event this weekend? https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/warehouse-district-event-aims-to-bring-more-people-to-downtown-minneapolis/ No, and from that second picture in the article, it doesn't look like anyone else did either. Just about everyone in th...

give em' 18 months

My thought exactly.

I mean, great that things are opening, but the ‘gimmicky-mess’ of that concept almost sounds like something out of the Onion.

...I'm not sure if the industry has matured and standardized much, but a buddy of mine bought an e-bike a few years ago with a 'swappable battery' only to find such a battery could no longer be purchased when he actually needed to do it.

That one is in a landfill I'm pretty sure...

Can anyone estimate how much business the downtown Target did between 6 and 10 PM pre-pandemic compared to the Lake Street Target?

I’m guessing the answer to reduced store hours lies somewhere at the confluence of lower traffic and higher crime.

Thrift/shoe store Urban Jungle is expanding from Seven Corners to Uptown, in the old North Face location . Speaking of thrift/vintage stores - that’s some welcome news Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk That is indeed great news, and perhaps a first clue on the extent to which rents are resetting i...

...actually, this one sounds like a 'success' for Metro Transit (setting aside, for a moment, the obvious tragedy of a teen losing their life). From the details released, I think it's tough to call this a 'transit crime' as to me it appears likely that it would have happened anyways just somewhere e...

This problem will get better when the community retaliates. After years of compassion, people who ride every day will eventually look the troublemakers dead in the eye and say "Get out of our car, get off our platforms." I truly believe the only way this will change is for riders to make ...

Not to downplay real concerns, but I found that article to be lacking data on the actual crimes being committed against these employees. "By the time I finish the text [for help], I could be bleeding to death," Hansen said. "There just aren't enough police on the trains." Readin...

Clearly a pro-active attempt by Target to blame their obviously failing business model on crime and 'undesirable behavior'.

...I have no doubt there will be plenty of people ready to whitesplain' to the community how great a light rail line will be!

Very good news! This one will be interesting to follow as it sorta falls into the “so crazy it just might work” category. My first thought is that it looks like it’s not so much a bet on return to office (which seems <very> risky), but a bet on what the post pandemic office will actually be (which s...

At least initially, COVID mandates were billed as efforts not to stop the spread of COVID, but to slow it down in order to ease the burden until healthcare resources and vaccines were more readily available (remember "flatten the curve") . Both conditions of which have now been met. There ...

Sure looks like they are rebuilding the Hub with an apartment building and a bunch of retail that will be effectively mooning the streets. It's pretty craptacular in my opinion..

It definitely doesn't help that MTPD sits in their vehicles waiting for things to happen instead of riding the trains. I can only imagine the response to the first video of a transit cop trying to get an uncooperative ‘unhoused’ person to leave the train. I think I’d tend to sit in my vehicle too, ...

It definitely doesn't help that MTPD sits in their vehicles waiting for things to happen instead of riding the trains. I can only imagine the response to the first video of a transit cop trying to get an uncooperative ‘unhoused’ person to leave the train. I think I’d tend to sit in my vehicle too, ...

Without getting into moral judgements, the value proposition for private school in terms of dollars and cents has never made sense to me. Just the cost of Grades 9-12 at Minnehaha Academy is $107,220. K-12, it's $284,715. Is the marginal value of an education there worth the money? If you can affor...