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Re: The Natural - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 14th, 2013, 1:14 pm
by lordmoke
There is excavation on site today, and permits appear to be pulled for construction:
http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/PIApp/ ... 2924240098

Re: The Natural - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 14th, 2013, 2:19 pm
by mister.shoes
Excellent! I can't wait to see how 5th Street transforms.

An aside: I'm sure I'm not the only one using The Interchange web cams to spy on both The Natural and Junction Flats :D

Re: The Natural - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 14th, 2013, 2:29 pm
by woofner
Fulton's new patio opened just in time!

Re: The Natural - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 17th, 2013, 12:11 pm
by lordmoke
Officially broke ground today. In a smart move, they have changed the name. Now called District 600.

Website:
http://www.district600.com/

Re: The Natural - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 17th, 2013, 12:52 pm
by min-chi-cbus
Awww.....Now I have to take "The Natural" off of the LONG bad-names list!!

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 17th, 2013, 8:20 pm
by twincitizen
The Natural was arguably a better name than any of the ones with Numb3r5 in their names, despite the cheesy baseball reference and the fact that there wasn't a single plant or anything "natural" in within several blocks of here.

District 600 sounds like a bad, direct-to-dvd sequel to District 9, which is a pretty good flick.

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 17th, 2013, 8:35 pm
by Andrew_F
It would be a good name for a club or bar, maybe a clothing store or something, not so much an apartment building.

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: June 18th, 2013, 7:53 am
by min-chi-cbus
It would be a good name for a club or bar, maybe a clothing store or something, not so much an apartment building.
They said it was named "District 600" because it's on the 600 block of the street and it's in the Warehouse District (their words, not mine). So that being the etymology of the name, it actually makes a bit of sense, but I agree that it does sound like a sci-fi movie more than the name of a YUPPY apartment building (I'm assuming it's geared towards young urban professionals).

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: July 30th, 2013, 11:31 am
by twincitizen
This is such a small site. It will be interesting to watch it go up, compared to the much larger Junction Flats across the street. Juction Flats is currently a little further along, but I'd imagine this will go up much more quickly.

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Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 5th, 2013, 9:05 pm
by schmitzm03
They are making slow progress on the sheet piling behind the Fulton Brewery. These are from Sunday.

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Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 5th, 2013, 9:09 pm
by schmitzm03
Also, it looks like the Fulton Brewery patio is almost finished. Take a look.

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Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 6th, 2013, 12:30 pm
by Nathan
Do you think it's slow going because they have some sort of agreement to hours of construction with Fulton? I'd imagine that kind of vibration could effect equipment in the brewery?

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 6th, 2013, 1:14 pm
by Wedgeguy
I was riding my bike thru the North loop on Sunday and Must admit this is the building with the smallest footprint of them all. compared to the one across the street it will look tiny!

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 6th, 2013, 3:46 pm
by min-chi-cbus
Pardon my ignorance, but does District 600 run parallel with 5th Street or is it wedged between Fulton Brewing Co. and the building across from it (where that yellow tractor is in the 3rd to last picture above)? Or neither, and it wraps around the Fulton bldg. (L-shaped)?

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: August 6th, 2013, 4:20 pm
by Nathan
Neither! L-shape.

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: September 22nd, 2013, 5:23 pm
by Nick
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IMG_4487 by UrbanMSP, on Flickr

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 7:40 pm
by Wedgeguy
If this building goes up any slower, it will start to regress backward.

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: October 17th, 2013, 2:54 pm
by lordmoke
A portion of the Weather-Rite building directly adjacent to this site has collapsed. Emergency vehicles were visible on the Interchange cameras earlier today.

http://www.startribune.com/local/minnea ... 07181.html

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: October 31st, 2013, 9:26 am
by twincitizen
KSTP has video and photos of the collapse: http://kstp.com/article/stories/s3194364.shtml

Re: District 600 - (600 Fifth Street North)

Posted: November 3rd, 2013, 8:15 am
by thatchio
I saw a sign on WeatherRite two weeks ago that said no one could go into that portion of the building due to structural concerns.