urbanMSP

Very much so. As far as I know, all we've got for actual public bathrooms downtown are at Target Field Station (intermittently open, don't seem to have posted hours), the library (open decently late on weeknights, not so much on weekends), City Hall/Government Center (business hours) and the Commons (24/7, but Portapotties).

Thrivent has (had?) quality bathrooms accessible to the public on street level next to the auditorium and skyway level near the cafeteria.

Very much so. As far as I know, all we've got for actual public bathrooms downtown are at Target Field Station (intermittently open, don't seem to have posted hours), the library (open decently late on weeknights, not so much on weekends), City Hall/Government Center (business hours) and the Commons (24/7, but Portapotties).

The Haff Ramp has restrooms. The portable toilets at the commons are locked except for game days as far as I know.

New donut place opening this spring in the City Center skyway.

http://www.journalmpls.com/news/biz-buz ... ty-center/

The Common's bathrooms are open during "park hours." You think all those Super Bowl fans coming would need to use the restroom?

Recently I took my grandma on an outing (she's wheelchair-bound) (her first time taking the light rail), and while she enjoyed it, as someone who doesn't live or work in downtown Minneapolis, it was difficult trying to find a bathroom she could use anywhere. Luckily we found the bathrooms at Target Field station, which were a floor down, underneath a bridge, and between two buildings.

Tiller, you should send this as a letter to DID and copy the Mayor and the downtown CM's. I know this would be a fairly expensive undertaking and require constant maintenance and supervision, but it's a really critical baseline livability concern for downtown visitors.

Indeed. As far as maintenance and supervision goes, the DID ambassadors already exist, and seem to be performing that function at the Commons.

My building has a public bathroom, but it's tucked away in such a way that you wouldn't know it exists unless someone told you.

Downtown is in serious need of actual public bathrooms. I worked at the DT Target for a brief window during college and that bathroom was a microcosm of society's ills and our failure to address them.

Can you PLEASE tell us? It's so difficult to visit downtown without having a place to use a bathroom without having to go a very long distance.

My building has a public bathroom, but it's tucked away in such a way that you wouldn't know it exists unless someone told you.

Downtown is in serious need of actual public bathrooms. I worked at the DT Target for a brief window during college and that bathroom was a microcosm of society's ills and our failure to address them.

Can you PLEASE tell us? It's so difficult to visit downtown without having a place to use a bathroom without having to go a very long distance.

I’m in US Bank Plaza. There’s a bathroom tucked in a hallway by the Atlas restaurant. It’s kind of weird because it’s a hallway that also includes doors for a business or two, but there is another set of doors that lead to a bathroom.

There is one in 333 7th St too.

Pretty sure there's a similar one on the skyway level of IDS by the Bank of America branch, but I've never tested it since Barnes and Noble and Macy's are (soon to be were, I guess) both a skyway away.

100 S Washington has a public restroom on the fourth floor.

Unless I'm in a sit down restaurant or crunched for time I walk to lifetime target center.

Target is planning on adding a liquor store at it's downtown store.

http://m.startribune.com/target-applies ... ection=%2F

Nordstrom Rack is coming along. They've gutted out the space along Nicollet and added some escalators.

Target is planning on adding a liquor store at it's downtown store.

http://m.startribune.com/target-applies ... ection=%2F

I wonder where that'll go. In the space of the current Pizza Hut/café? Further south on Nicollet?

State law would require that it have a separate entrance accessible to the street (or skyway perhaps...I'd have to read the exact wording of the statute). It can also be accessible from inside Target, but must be fully enclosed & have doors that close it off from the store, etc (see Uptown Kowalskis, Midway Target, etc)

I'm sure this is not the plan, but how cool would it be if they opened the liquor store in one of those forever vacant (possibly fake?) retail spaces at Lasalle & 9th or Lasalle & 10th?

It will almost certainly go in the Target Cafe/Pizza Hut space. AFAIK, they're kind of phasing Target Cafe out of their stores in favor of healthier-looking brands (The NE location at the Quarry has a Freshii), so the space would likely need to be updated with the redo anyway. Starbucks continues to be a Target staple, so I don't see them going anywhere (and moving Starbucks to the main floor would seem to be a mistake given traffic patterns and its ease of access for corporate employees that want coffee).

That would be great to see it on LaSalle, but xandrex is probably right. A greasy Pizza Hut doesn't​ really fit with their new image.

The Target Cafe/Pizza Hut is already closed off. Unfortunately, I'm sure Target sees that space as a nuisance due to the people that hang out there, so I bet they're pretty excited to get rid of it.