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Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'

Posted: February 10th, 2021, 12:20 pm
by Cinzano71
A Nicolett [sic] Mall trolley/street car would help with that. Similar to Denver’s 16th street street mall. It could use Marquette and Hennepin to make a loop in front of the Post Office.

Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'

Posted: February 10th, 2021, 12:49 pm
by uptownbro
To bad the city has all but killed a similar plan for a street car.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 10th, 2021, 3:13 pm
by uptownbro

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 11th, 2021, 7:48 am
by alexschief
The pandemic is bringing all the 70's-90's bad urban ideas back to the forefront. Now I see we're onto the "downtown circulator."

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 11th, 2021, 8:44 am
by Silophant
The biggest advantage of the 16th St Mall, IMO, is that it's solely a pedestrian mall (with a circulator bus). The major bus route spine is a a one-way pair on 15th and 17th. If we routed the Nicollet buses onto 3rd Ave instead (with bus lanes, since it's still a four-lane street), they would be sped up, access to the east side of downtown would be improved, and we could close Nicollet down for events without making it harder for people to get where they need to go. We could then run a circulator bus as well. I don't think it'll single-handedly save downtown or anything, but the MallRide is a nice option to have in Denver.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 12th, 2021, 12:45 pm
by grant1simons2
If there's going to be any circulator, it's going to serve Downtown-Riverside-Campus-Northeast one that runs in a Washington-University loop.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 12th, 2021, 3:52 pm
by mattaudio
If there's going to be any circulator, it's going to serve Downtown-Riverside-Campus-Northeast one that runs in a Washington-University loop.
Gondolas radiating out from a downtown hub, maybe on the near-block of surface parking between Warehouse District LRT, Butler Square, and Glueks....
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 11:26 am
by Cat349F
What is going on 1 block south of 240/Gateway on Hennepin? I got told to gear up for a partial demo, drill and set retention, and a bunch of foundation shotcrete work.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 12:41 pm
by Nathan
What is going on 1 block south of 240/Gateway on Hennepin? I got told to gear up for a partial demo, drill and set retention, and a bunch of foundation shotcrete work.
Hmm I know that there's been a lot of talk and need of work on the 90s... but haven't seen anything specific lately. What else is there? Senior high rise and the library?

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 12:44 pm
by COLSLAW5
could be the start of the second half of the 365 Nicollet Block

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 1:06 pm
by SurlyLHT
could be the start of the second half of the 365 Nicollet Block
Only thing I can think of. Which is good news? This building was a bit more handsome then the other Opus projects? Also they skyway was put across there and is dead-ended.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 1:29 pm
by GILBball
Has the Rockler Fur renovation started yet? That would fit the general area and would probably involve a lot of that type of work.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 1:43 pm
by uptownbro
Demo makes me think that its 17 N Washington but it could really be any number of projects but thats north not south.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 2:43 pm
by Cat349F
Demo could mean anything coming from the office. I’m not sure if they meant East Hennepin, not Hennepin. 420 is the address. Glam Doll donuts may want to gear up, if it’s East Hennepin.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: February 15th, 2021, 3:06 pm
by COLSLAW5
420 East Hennepin would make sense I pretty sure there was an apartment building taking up the top triangle area of that block that got approved not to long ago

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: March 2nd, 2021, 11:45 am
by SurlyLHT
Okay, time for them to build a 900' tower. I'm half joking, I know one great and unique year doesn't mean they need a new office tower. But, that Target is healthy and growing and has adapted to the COVID and Amazon.com age does make it more likely they will need something at some point. I'm also wondering if companies would be more willing to share their tower with residential units given COVID and work from home and mobile workforce trends? Maybe what a HQ Tower is needs to be re-imagined.

https://www.startribune.com/target-s-sa ... 600029246/

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: March 2nd, 2021, 1:30 pm
by COLSLAW5
Unfortunately they already have almost entirely empty buildings up in Brooklyn Park. It also sounds like they will be giving some of their employees the option of permanent remote work. They do occupy a large chunk of the city center building so if anything they might be leaning towards abandoning that space.

Target is also one of the biggest supporters of the Blue Line extension as it is basically going to be connecting their 2 major campuses together.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: May 14th, 2021, 9:56 pm
by grant1simons2
Lines out the doors tonight, people are packing Hennepin again. Downtown is going to be fine.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: June 4th, 2021, 10:22 am
by uptownbro
Catholic charities and Aeon are planning a 20 story 500 unit affordable housing at there parking lot of 8th and 3rd. Very good news. This is still in the planning phase but they have worked with ryan co on this so far.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Posted: June 8th, 2021, 1:43 pm
by twincitizen
There's a topic for that: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4596&start=20