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Didn't you notice the banner of a robed and capped person hanging on the tower in the renderings?

I did, but I didn't expect that to literally be the name of the building any more than I expect the new stadium to be called Adrian Peterson Stadium.

Thanks for that image, mister.shoes!

Looking at the map, it looks like this is those three houses on Essex closest to Huron, across the street from the Stadium Village Apts, as well as the house on Huron and the northernmost of the three identical apartment buildings on Huron between Essex and Fulton.

Mod note: Jump ahead to Page 3 for updated plans; the hotel project moved across the street. Looking at the CoW agenda for next week , it looks like Doran isn't the only one who thinks the University area needs another hotel. This one would be "a five-story hotel with 123 rooms and one floor o...

According to the new 1/30 CoW agenda, this project is now called "The Graduate". Weird.

Wow. Given that it's about 30 more units than 222 Hennepin, but 4x the height, I'm guessing this is only about a quarter of the block, presumably the unused grassy area on Hennepin. Are there normally preliminary renderings at CoW meetings? Edit: Missed the "multiple properties" part. I'm ...

If the Opus development got through the old council, I'm optimistic that this one will get through the new, more pro-development council.

Saw a train of Bombardiers roll through downtown today, the first vehicle of which had been retrofitted with the new destination signs. The blue square was a darker blue that more closely matches the blue on the signs, not the eye-searing bright blue that the Siemens vehicles have.

Amtrak's starting date will be announced next week.

As mentioned in the Green Line thread, don't read the comments. They're extraordinarily vile, even by online commenting standards.

Argh. More surface parking is the last thing Dinkytown needs. Though maybe it'll help blunt some of the SD fury? They do love their surface parking.

Cool! If that second-level patio gets used a lot, I think this will be a cool addition to 4th. I'm wondering why the house on 13th needs to be demolished, though, since the first rendering doesn't show the building extending east of the Post Office property line at all. Not that I'm particularly att...

Came down at 7:15 this morning.I actually woke up at 7:45 and was planning to go over and watch at 8:30, but, luckily, checked Twitter first.

That was my thinking. I can't imagine Doran would want to try to get another demo permit in a separate meeting.

Nope. One of the apartments burned out, but the fire fighters saved the remainder of the building. It's open for business.

In his most recent post to the FB group, Matt Hawbaker says: "Its become fairly clear that his plan will also include buying and demolishing Espresso Royale to create an alley-way entrance into his proposed hotel, so there is likely a lot more at stake than appears at the moment." Has anyo...

There was a post from ThePumpGuy,if I remember correctly, a couple months ago saying that his company was about to finish pouring LPM, and that their next project was 400 Marquette. So there's that, I guess. As far as the Xcel building goes, the Xcel internal website says Ramp Demolition in 3Q 2014,...

Lockout's over! Hopefully this beautiful space will get used for its intended purpose soon.

I can't imagine she would read it.

There's other people who think 3A should be built ASAP, rather than delaying it by 5+ years, (including me, if the stupid tunnel(s) get scrapped) but I think David is the only person who's actually argued that 3A is actually a better routing than 3C, disregarding external constraints.

Yeah, if Target (or UHG, or Medtronic) out of the blue decided to abandon their new suburban campus, we could get what Seattle's getting. #boundlessoptimism

The Blue Line runs until ~1am on weekdays, and later on weekends. I could be wrong, but I'd assume the Green Line will run that late as well.