DTE: Wells Fargo, Radisson Red, Edition Apts & Millwright Building
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Nailed it! Your interpretation of what I said is spot on, once again.What this development could have been.Still, I'm not a fan of the look or layout of this office space -- compared to what could have been, I guess. JMO.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Aside from the first- and second-floor magic-paks being the complete wrong color, these are turning out great.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
What's with the patios?
Q. What, what? A. In da butt.
Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
They have really awesome textured granite (or maybe concrete, I drove by quickly) Plinth Blocks that give them a good sense of privacy.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Respectfully, there is definitely a different site plan that would have been more permeable.I don't think any other site plan would have provided any more actual permeability of this block, but there is something about the appearance of these as you look north that looks like some kind of wall. So there's a perceived edge even if it's no different than anything else that could have been here.
Take all of the square footage from these two shorter, bulkier buildings put it in a smaller footprint and make it taller.
Whether or not it was "feasible" or the right thing to do economically for the client/developer is up for debate.
As usual, I'm describing a preference or an ideal for the city. I don't care about the client or the developer.
I'd also say that evaluating these things doesn't fit into neat little boxes but if the current design meant a fully funded, full amenity "Commons", I might see this new edge/not fantastic buildings as a welcome trade-off but that is NOT the case so I have to evaluate it given the current circumstances.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Was in the Haaf ramp yesterday and I just walked to take a look and did see the signs for the 29th. The strangest thing I saw was the skyway sign in the old section of the skyway is old, while the skyway sign where you turn to head over to the WF tower has the new Skyways to the stadium and brought back the skyway to the Nic on 5th. But they did not have the skyway to the Xcel building on the new maps. Those 2 maps are 25 yards apart and you would think that if they made one new one, that they would have made new signs for all over the skyway system. Especially when changing both of them out would have been so f**king simple, they were already there and if they had 2 signs which they better have. they could have saved themselves some future work and money by getting it done once instead of twice. But that seem to be the problem, the city is full of simpletons that can't think past one project at a time and saving the taxpayers money.Opens on Monday.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Maybe that could be change if our skyway advisory committee wasn't nearly 100% vacant (17 open seats)
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Hold on. Why does the skyway advisory committee have anywhere near 17 total seats? That's way too many. Am I missing something or could they get by with 7?Maybe that could be change if our skyway advisory committee wasn't nearly 100% vacant (17 open seats)
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Wait, they didn't appoint anyone? I thought about applying, but that vaguely-worded "Regular members shall be owners or occupants of a property connected to a Mpls skyway." requirement made me unsure if I qualify as an employee of a business in a skyway-connected building, so I didn't. I also can't tell if I still can - most committee pages like that have some wording about the positions being open until filled, but that doesn't.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
I've been traipsing through the skyways as an employee for nigh on two decades. That makes me an occupant of a property, no? Come on, let's do this on Monday. Who's with me? There's room aplenty...
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I'll have to wait until Wednesday to see what they have done. A thumbs up or down!I've been traipsing through the skyways as an employee for nigh on two decades. That makes me an occupant of a property, no? Come on, let's do this on Monday. Who's with me? There's room aplenty...
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Skyway Advisory Committee
The Skyway Advisory Committee is a group of 17 regular voting members...
Vacancies:
There are currently seventeen vacancies.
I needed that deep belly-laugh!
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
The ground level is much more interesting than the skyway. I hope it can stay that way. The skyway does give you some history of Minneapolis in aerial photography, so that's neat.
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Will hopefully get a chance to do some looking around and checking this out on Wednesday.
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Western 3rd of the last floor of the Rad Red is now making ti's way up. NO ROOF TRUSSES YET. Looks like once they have this project topped off the Millwright Building will be breaking ground so that will be under construction by summer. Will be happy to see both those blank walls of WF towers covered up for the most part.
Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Noticed yesterday that there is a new cube being built on top of the 2 story entrance section of the old Whitney Hotel. I'm thinking it is a club room for the residence of the building. I think their group outdoor terrace is also on there too.
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Re: Downtown East - Wells Fargo / Radisson Red / Edition Apt
Went by the Wells Fargo Towers in the bus on my way to class and noticed that they took off the coverings and started to fix up what looks like concrete decorations or seals of some kind. They're rather nice looking and add some character to the lower levels of the building.
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