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The only feasible place to put a skyway is along the Southern facade. Do you really want to bust a hole in the most prominent part of the building for a skyway that would be in an area that has most of the traffic coming from the riverfront?

Carlye isn't skway connected, neither is Rivergate, either of the Towers and essentially the entire North Loop and Mill District. That's who it will be serving.

are they putting in a canoe slide!!! That would be pretty fun!

Yeah, it would definitely be a mistake to mess up the main facade of the Post Office with a skyway connection, and I don't think it's critical. Just need to improve the public access to the skyway that already exists at the Churchill.

The post office would make a very nice indoor market along the lines of Cleveland's West Side Market.

The West Side Market is fun.

The Post Office building could be incorporated into somthing really big. Keep the facade as is and build something up from within that complements the existing structure, not detracts from it. Make the Post Office building part of something really big here that creates a destination that will draw people in, like a very tall tower that sits atop a Chelsea Market style space full of restaurants and retail shops. Being next to a beautiful new riverfront park would be a big plus as well.
It would be nice to see a new tallest building.

I'd love to see the old loading docks turned into "outdoor room" patio space.

Yeah, it would definitely be a mistake to mess up the main facade of the Post Office with a skyway connection, and I don't think it's critical. Just need to improve the public access to the skyway that already exists at the Churchill.

Yup, but long term they could build a skyway connection to the Carlye's parking ramp and then build a skyway connection via the space between the two post office buildings and connect through the existing skyway connection and continue onward to the riverfront. Is it likely anybody would be interested in that now? Nope! How about 20 years from now? When our transit systems are mostly built out, making giving up a few parking spaces not as hurtful. When the now post office is redeveloped into a grand public space area, and the riverfront is built out and is a place where people want to go. Then not having to cross a big intersection on 1st. and having a direct greenway to the riverfront might just be worth the investment..

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/millcityt ... 1034274326

gawd flickr is the worst.

A great, in depth article on the Water Works project progress from The Journal.

It includes this wonderful historical aerial of the milling district, which is so big and detailed that I can't link it in here.

Really illustrates how cut off from the rest of the city the mills were by the railroads. Which was probably a good thing given the mills' propensity to exploding.

It amazes me how much of the milling infrastructure was already gone when that B&W aerial was taken. The pictures in "Minneapolis and the Age of Railways" are a revelation. I had no idea that the Washburn Mill originally had no view of the river.

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Very detailed plans for Pavilion at Water Works Park- http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups ... 210007.pdf

Finally some action here. The Fuji Ya building is fenced off and backhoe is on site digging up the parking lot.

BoA donates $1 million
Have other big banks donated? If not, could this propel them to push this fundraising past the last $600,000 they are seeking?

Updated Pavilion plans from HPC:
http://minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/pub ... 215719.pdf

The Stone Arch Bridge received all funding necessary for repairs.

http://www.startribune.com/full-funding ... 505226102/

Equipment and orange construction fence has gone up on site. Sign at West River Parkway and N 4th Ave (near North Loop Playground) says West River Parkway will be closed July 29 through late Fall 2019.

Pretty amazing proposal!

Hennepin County Board to hear proposal on a wishbone-shaped promenade spanning the Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls

I don't really get it. Well, I get it, but I'm not sure how it's going to work. Why is someone going to go out there more than once? Is it just a place to go for a walk/run and look at the falls? Don't we have them with parks on both sides and the Stone Arch Bridge, except that those things connect to other places and things to do? What are we going to do when people from the suburbs start complaining that there are "undesirable" people out there?

I'm not opposed, but I will want to hear how they're going to keep this an active space that people want to come back to before I think we couldn't find better uses for that much money.