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Sorry, I must have missed that post then. I was just curious on how much more it would cost.

Anyone know an estimate (just a simple ballpark estimate would do) on how much more an Uptown alignment would cost compared to it's current alignment cost of $1.25 billion? Would residents there be angry at LRT construction in the neighborhoods along Hennepin, Lyndale, Nicollet or whatever street it...

I just saw that right now as well and was about to post the article on here :lol:. The MSP urban area is the main developed/built-up core region in the 7 main counties all in MN, while the MSP Metropolitan Area has been 13 counties in MN and Western WI for awhile until now. Urban and Metropolitan ar...

That would cool to see the West End have a LRT station and have it connected with the 9 bus line so it could connect people to the retail and businesses like Allianz Life along the I-394 strip. I would have the Dan Patch line go there if it ever got built (in an alternative universe probably), and i...

^^ is it cheaper because the majority of the building is condos? I would imagine all the finishings can be passed on to the owner to decide/supply/install and would cut down on the cost to the developer..? Could be, I just compared the overall costs that I found on Google with only looking at new-i...

I looked up some examples of skyscrapers and supertalls to analyze and compare the construction costs vs. the overall height. The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago cost around $850 million to build and is 1,170 ft high (not including the spire) with 98 floors, but a nearby tower called ...

Convention centers.... http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/7/11/convention-centers-its-a-race-to-the-bottom.html The Bemidji Convention Center is absurd for a community of 15,000. And the article is good in presenting the writer's opinion. But its very raises a lot of unanswered questions for m...

Oh my god, they are building student housing in the middle of a business district geared towards the University crowd. Oh the horror! A 6-story building is way too tall for Dinkytown, I mean it's not like there is a 18-story residential tower nearby at all, right?.....and my precious parking! With a...

It probably wouldn't needed to be, but I just added that in along to see what it could look like.

It's similar to the streetcar route in Toronto on St. Clair Ave, as it runs in the median of the avenue but it's track was upgraded to it's own dedicated ROW 2007-2010. The Central Corridor is basically a LRT version of it, albeit a few differences. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum...

300K every 10 years is LOW, if anything, for the Twin Cities metro. In the 90's we grew by 450K and in the 2000's we grew by 350K. It's just a estimate. To be honest, I think it's fine. I don't think we are going to hit 5 million by 2040, more like probably 4-4.25 M in the core 7-county metro (poss...

OK, a little more on topic. I noticed in the Yale University narrative for the Hines Competition the phrase "the Metropolitan Council projects Minneapolis to grow by 294,000 residents...by 2020." Really? Where did the Met publish that figure? That seems crazy. That would put Minneapolis a...

I'm pretty sure that no one here would regard equating urban infill with greenfield McMansion development as "being fair". Given that this area is going to grow significantly over the next 20 years, whether we like it or not, I think it is imperative that Gateway Corridor BRT get built so...

Ahh the "Wood-hood" my old home. It will definitely keep growing but they have never been big in diversifying the tax base beyond shopping and houses. I wonder if some of the land that is left (meaning that along the interstate and future Gateway corridor) would be better put to use for b...

I'm 31 and have one child and another on the way, and we don't want a half acre home with a white picket fence. We want a place that's safe and where there is SOME green space for kids to play, but we don't need very much. Currently (and we're not happy with our current living situation), our backy...

The Wells Fargo Mortgage is headquartered in Des Moines. We just happen to have one of the large regional offices which I believe was a part of Norwest before the merger. Oops, my mistake. I always thought it was the HQ given it's a large complex and Minneapolis still has a large WF presence. On th...

Even though USB is HQ'd here and Wells Fargo is not...Wells has more employees in the Twin Cities by a significant margin. That's weird... IIRC, Norwest Bank acquired Wells Fargo and decided that Wells Fargo would be a better name for nationwide bank. I could imagine that highly paid banksters exec...

So basically something like this along Highway 10?

I got bored and photoshopped what a Downtown Shakopee station could look like. Since Big Lake has only one side platform, I figured Shakopee could have the same layout, so then 2nd Ave E still has access to a parking lot north of the station. http://imgur.com/8tDFtK4l.jpg Larger image Station locati...

I wonder what the daily ridership of entire network would be if they built every line shown in Phase 2 (maybe not the CP Spur though). 50,000-75,000/day? By the time they would actually build the system, they could use ground-level power supply tracks instead of overhead wires to power the trams lik...