University of Minnesota - News & General Topics

[rhettcarlson]

Hadn't seen this angle of the rendering. Looks like it's showing demolition of the Dinnaken and Argyle student housing buildings, both built in the early/mid 90s. And is that a building on top of Oak St ramp? Build it!

[Silophant]

Yeah, that almost looks like they're proposing to rebuild both missing blocks of Delaware and connect it straight through from Oak to Huron, with a new tower on the north side where the north end of the ramp is now. Been a long time since I've been in the Oak St Ramp, is it actually laid out in such a way that they could cut it off at the Delaware Row and still have the remaining half be usable?

[MNdible]

I'll buy you all a beer if the buildings actually have that cool terrace stepping.

[Not a legally enforceable promise.]

[SurlyLHT]

I understand why they are placing this on East Bank, but It would be nice if they put it on West Bank just north of Mondale Hall and take out the parking lot and softball fields. Maybe even take out the West Bank Office Building or build where the ramp is. Also get rid of that office building on Washington Ave

Place some major density right near Downtown. I also think it would be easier for drivers being not as centered in the campus. Also it's close to the LRT stop. (The area on the Southside of 35.)

I don't mind the campus, but I think Downtown East/W. Bank also might be a place more comfortable for medical staff and students. There even might be an advantage to being so close to HCMC.

Also they could give Eleven some friends and include a tower like the HUB for grad students and etc.

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[martykoessel]

Land ownership. The U has been accumulating land for the East Bank medical campus for years.

[BigIdeasGuy]

I would also speculate that that area is more likely to be used an expansion of the law school, Humphrey School or even Carlson vs medical space.

A medical center expansion on the West bank would more likely be down by Riverside park, across from Augsburg or even a large demo/rebuild of the current rats nest of building they have. Interesting after doing a bunch of looking a property tax map the City owns a decent amount of houses by Riverside park, I would guess the U would have instead.

Also yes The U vacating and selling all of their west of 35W would be a big win for the Mill District

[Silophant]

Guess they're prepping to get started on the East Gateway project. I had completely forgotten about it.

[HuskyGrad]

Guess they're prepping to get started on the East Gateway project. I had completely forgotten about it.

Burger King going to stay open until they get demolished?

[Silophant]

Must just be that eastern building being demolished for now? Haven't been there for a while, but the BK, Caribou, and Kung Fu Tea are all still open according to their websites.

[Bakken2016]

Guess they're prepping to get started on the East Gateway project. I had completely forgotten about it.

https://themixmn.com/

It has a new development name and website. It's called The Mix.

[Didier]

Clarification: It's not just the Mix, it's the the Minnesota Innovation Exchange — aka "The MIX"!

Seems like kind of a major project that kind of snuck past us here? According to the website there are three phrases that would redevelop three entire blocks in the heart of Stadium Village.

Phase 1 is listed as 2024-2029 and appears to have a woonerf.

[thespeedmccool]

Clarification: It's not just the Mix, it's the the Minnesota Innovation Exchange — aka "The MIX"!

Seems like kind of a major project that kind of snuck past us here? According to the website there are three phrases that would redevelop three entire blocks in the heart of Stadium Village.

Phase 1 is listed as 2024-2029 and appears to have a woonerf.

I think it snuck past because everything I've seen about it looks like those "what could be..." aspirational drawings consultants get when they write up a suburb's TOD plan. I assumed it was just a placeholder image for a potential redevelopment, not a real-life plan.

It would be awesome if the MIX actually looks like the renders when it's built, but I somehow think it won't be the monument to innovation that the drawings suggest.

[Tom H.]

I imagine the current work is simply to clear the site. Any actual new construction would have to go through all the usual approval processes I assume, which we'd have visibility to.

[Tcmetro]

If it's a project by the university would it be exempt from going through the city?

[BigIdeasGuy]

Personal pipe dream but I would love it if the new building, or nearby development, included enough office sq ft so that they could tear down the ugly University Office Plaza building on the north side of University and expand the park on the south side of the stadium all the way 23rd.

Also Stub & Herbs must be protected at all costs.

[thespeedmccool]

Personal pipe dream but I would love it if the new building, or nearby development, included enough office sq ft so that they could tear down the ugly University Office Plaza building on the north side of University and expand the park on the south side of the stadium all the way 23rd.

They are planning to tear down that building eventually. I think their plan is to extend the plaza that direction, but I'm not sure.

[BigIdeasGuy]

Does anyone knows if the the tracks from like Lions Research Building north of Huntington Back Stadium to the 10th Ave bridge actually serve any customers, it doesn't look like they are connected to anything. According to a quick Google it looks like the power plant by the river no longer uses coal so I'm guessing the tracks don't serve anything.

[Anondson]

Last I recall hearing, when a conversation came up about taking those tracks out since they were no longer used to serve customers and folks were imagining replacing with a parkway and quality bike infrastructure, it was said that the railroad used those tracks to hold train cars out of the way.

[DanPatchToget]

Minnesota Commercial Railway also uses some of those tracks for transloading (transferring freight from rail to truck).

I was going to ask what's happening with the strip mall that had the Burger King, but the posts above answer my question! It's now vacated and fenced off, so I'm guessing any day now that's going to be demolished. Assuming Block 1 of The Mix is actually built, how certain is it that Block 2 and Block 3 will be built since that's 5+ years away and a lot can change in that time?

[MNdible]

So, I after looking at the Nicollet Mall redesign options, I had to look up what a TEP score was. To save you all some googling, it stands for Transportation Equity Priority and is a way to direct transportation investment based on the demographics of the population living in different areas.

What struck me was that the heart of the East Bank UofM campus is shown as a Tier 1 zone, showing that it has the same population needs as the poorest and most historically disadvantaged parts of north Minneapolis. Which feels, frankly, like a bad misreading of some basic census data. When will we get smarter at realizing that college students look very poor on paper because they're not working full time but, in most cases, are not actually poor? This is definitely not the first time I've seen data like this warping analyses.