The Three Nine Four - Golden Valley
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http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/p ... ntals.html
This would entail 308 units of rental housing and 118 units of senior housing in a $30+ million development by Global One, scheduled for committee reviews this week or next. It would be located in the NW quadrant of the Hwy 100 and I-394 intersection in Golden Valley, next to the Good Day Cafe.
This would entail 308 units of rental housing and 118 units of senior housing in a $30+ million development by Global One, scheduled for committee reviews this week or next. It would be located in the NW quadrant of the Hwy 100 and I-394 intersection in Golden Valley, next to the Good Day Cafe.
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Hey Min, Thanks for the info, but I think this is the same as the Colonade apartments. Can anyone confirm?
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Sounds like a different project on a site in the same general vicinity as the Colonnade.
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Cool. Thanks MN. I was confused because when I opened the like the picture looked the same as in the Colonnade article.
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The article has gone subscriber only. This project is behind the Collonade project. There was a rendering....
Q. What, what? A. In da butt.
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Here's a rendering and site plans:
http://gv-img.ci.golden-valley.mn.us/Pu ... age73.aspx
I'll be curious whether the city requires the height be reduced in at least the part that is very close to the single-family homes. From a land use perspective, dense housing seems more compatible with the surroundings than the existing very low density housing. From an aesthetic perspective, a six story building would better match the 60' ROW of Circle Down better than the existing ranch homes. So maybe the solution is to rezone Circle Down for high-density residential.
http://gv-img.ci.golden-valley.mn.us/Pu ... age73.aspx
I'll be curious whether the city requires the height be reduced in at least the part that is very close to the single-family homes. From a land use perspective, dense housing seems more compatible with the surroundings than the existing very low density housing. From an aesthetic perspective, a six story building would better match the 60' ROW of Circle Down better than the existing ranch homes. So maybe the solution is to rezone Circle Down for high-density residential.
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I agree with this sentiment and think it could be applied to a lot of arguments about density/height around the city. Rather than critiquing a proposal for being too big, maybe a reevaluation of what should be there is more appropriate. Just because something was built first doesn't make it the "correct" scale for the area.From a land use perspective, dense housing seems more compatible with the surroundings than the existing very low density housing.
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Man.....I was hoping since the #of units jumped by 100 to 300+ from the original proposal I was hoping the height would change, but apparently 6 stories is the tallest developers will build outside of the downtown core.
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The 36th and Park Center project was 11 stories, Bloomington Hotel 16 stories, American and Penn 8 stories, UHG HQ is pretty tall from what I remember...
I would like to see something tall here, so it fits in with the office towers.
I would like to see something tall here, so it fits in with the office towers.
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I know this......it wasn't meant to be taken quite that literally, but thanks.The 36th and Park Center project was 11 stories, Bloomington Hotel 16 stories, American and Penn 8 stories, UHG HQ is pretty tall from what I remember...
I would like to see something tall here, so it fits in with the office towers.
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I have some time to kill, so I'd like to use it to clarify that my above comments shouldn't be interpreted as an endorsement of this specific proposal, but rather of the general land use and intensity. On the contrary, I think the proposal exhibits some of the worst characteristics of suburban development. The buildings are massed in a seemingly arbitrary manner, without consideration of the effective pathways that will be created by the users of the space. Putting the main section of the larger building in the center of the site makes no sense as it forces the recreational area to be right on the freeway- who's going to want to have a picnic or even a swim right next to thousands of roaring cars? If they instead grouped the buildings on the south side of the site, they would not only have the option of a sheltered green space, they would more easily someday be able to build more buildings on the parking lot space. And if the positioning of the two buildings were flipped, it would better approximate a useful block pattern that could be made into a small grid with the redevelopment of the Circle Down ranch homes.
Of course, Golden Valley has no policies encouraging developers building on their own initiatives to engage in this sort of forward thinking. This site is included in their 394 corridor planning effort, but the recommendations there are vague and weak, specific only in the vague toothless scenarios that tend to pepper this sort of planning but never result in anything tangible. Golden Valley and other munipalities should get specific about clustering buildings to recreate street grids and allow space for future infill, get tough about obsolete land uses like ranch houses a block away from office towers, and get real about the likelihood that a transportation system based around single occupancy vehicles will be unfeasible and undesirable in the near future.
Of course, Golden Valley has no policies encouraging developers building on their own initiatives to engage in this sort of forward thinking. This site is included in their 394 corridor planning effort, but the recommendations there are vague and weak, specific only in the vague toothless scenarios that tend to pepper this sort of planning but never result in anything tangible. Golden Valley and other munipalities should get specific about clustering buildings to recreate street grids and allow space for future infill, get tough about obsolete land uses like ranch houses a block away from office towers, and get real about the likelihood that a transportation system based around single occupancy vehicles will be unfeasible and undesirable in the near future.
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This thing is moving forward and has received approvals from the Housing and Redevelopment Authority in Golden Valley:
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... rward.html
I really like the Senior portion of the building......reminds me of some of the kinds of architecture I see here where I live in Shaker Heights, OH!!
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... rward.html
I really like the Senior portion of the building......reminds me of some of the kinds of architecture I see here where I live in Shaker Heights, OH!!
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I totally loled when I saw this thing. Pretty sure I went on this ride at Epcot when I was 3 years old.
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It's like a European chalet!
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Now that's Architecture!
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Do we have a name for this wonderful new form? It's not brutalist, yet it tantalizingly is...
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How many window styles can you count?
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This looks like Oaks Station place and 222 Hennepin had an illegitimate child.
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They named it after the freeway. And they spelled it out, because that's classy, I guess.
I think we've reached the nadir of bad project names.
On a constructive note, it seems like a lot of the suburbs seem to have tougher and more lengthy approval processes than Minneapolis. Is that the case, or am I off base there?
I think we've reached the nadir of bad project names.
On a constructive note, it seems like a lot of the suburbs seem to have tougher and more lengthy approval processes than Minneapolis. Is that the case, or am I off base there?
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This isn't the project, is it?
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... ments.html
"The Xenia" will have 373 units and 5 floors.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... ments.html
"The Xenia" will have 373 units and 5 floors.
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