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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 17th, 2014, 9:57 pm
by seanrichardryan
Doesn't the Strib look great from this angle?

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 17th, 2014, 10:28 pm
by grant1simons2
Beautiful parking lot

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 18th, 2014, 6:04 am
by Minneboy
Wow look at all those cranes. Sweet.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 18th, 2014, 4:43 pm
by Nathan
Doesn't the Strib look great from this angle?
yeah so good :(

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 24th, 2014, 8:54 pm
by grant1simons2
Infill project please...

https://i.imgur.com/wiOJ9Xs.jpg

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 25th, 2014, 12:10 am
by FISHMANPET
Based on the lack of windows I would guess there was once a nice building there, anybody that's good with such things able to find some old pictures?

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 25th, 2014, 12:38 am
by grant1simons2
There might be some in my DT MPLS historical book. The exact address is 806 Hennepin

Grrrr. Yep. Beautiful part of a hotel.
Image

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 25th, 2014, 11:50 pm
by hoffm83n
will/can anything ever be done with that random open area between the post office, hennepin and west river parkway?

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 25th, 2014, 11:57 pm
by grant1simons2
I'm in favor of a park or a restaurant with a river view

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 26th, 2014, 8:22 am
by mamundsen
There is a plan to connect that down to the river. It's been discussed on here before. Keep digging through the threads...

Edit: There are renderings posted in the Hennepin Ave and Gateway Park threads.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 26th, 2014, 8:26 am
by Nathan
it's a part of the downtown councils 2025 plan, but no actual proposal or anything

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 26th, 2014, 10:39 am
by mullen
i remember all of the candidates vowing during a mayoral debate when RT first ran they would make that vacant lot below the post office a priority. obviously very difficult to get anything going when the feds are involved. and as has been said it needs to be part of cohesive plan to connect downtown with the river there.

there also was a plan to open those spots below the post office fronting the parkway to various vendor concepts. then 9/11 happened and the feds freaked out about security. now we have these spaces sitting empty behind gates. a waste of space imo.

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Posted: August 26th, 2014, 11:49 am
by MNdible
I think it was actually the OKC bombing that scared them off from opening them.

Pretty sure that our best bet for getting this area improved is to have the Minneapolis post office consolidated out of existence. Does anybody remember if the Eagan distribution center was designed to accommodate future expansion?

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 3:08 pm
by grant1simons2
Developer Harshal Patel and a group of investors paid $1 million for the 100-year-old Federal Plaza in downtown Minneapolis and plan to turn it into a small boutique hotel.

Read more: http://finance-commerce.com/2014/09/fro ... z3CNpdcG5r

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 3:35 pm
by HiawathaGuy
Developer Harshal Patel and a group of investors paid $1 million for the 100-year-old Federal Plaza in downtown Minneapolis and plan to turn it into a small boutique hotel.
Very cool infill project.

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 3:46 pm
by grant1simons2
This is exactly what was needed here. I'm a bit confused about location though, is it going in right next to the Minneapolis hotel?

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 4:00 pm
by Nick
Yo dawg: Literally just look at the picture on the link you just posted.

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 4:02 pm
by grant1simons2
Ha! That's what I thought but it just didn't make much sense to me... I mean, the Hotel Minneapolis sign is attached to their building..

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 6:13 pm
by Wedgeguy
Why I seriously have to wonder if this will ever come to fruition. Having a hard time seeing any Hotel business plan making much money with that location and floor plates and lack of views. Having the caliber of hotels that exist, are in the pipeline, and proposed that have more workable plans, I just don't see this project ever opening up.

Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Posted: September 4th, 2014, 6:37 pm
by Silophant
Ha! That's what I thought but it just didn't make much sense to me... I mean, the Hotel Minneapolis sign is attached to their building..
Not necessarily a problem. They're not necessarily aiming for the exact same market as the Hotel Minneapolis. Even if they were, you only have to go a few blocks to see the Radisson and the Marriott across the street from one another, (almost) directly linked by skyway. Since hotels have almost no walk-up business, placement relative to each other doesn't matter as much.