Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby seanrichardryan » August 17th, 2014, 9:57 pm

Doesn't the Strib look great from this angle?
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby grant1simons2 » August 17th, 2014, 10:28 pm

Beautiful parking lot

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby Minneboy » August 18th, 2014, 6:04 am

Wow look at all those cranes. Sweet.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby Nathan » August 18th, 2014, 4:43 pm

Doesn't the Strib look great from this angle?
yeah so good :(

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby grant1simons2 » August 24th, 2014, 8:54 pm

Infill project please...

https://i.imgur.com/wiOJ9Xs.jpg

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby FISHMANPET » August 25th, 2014, 12:10 am

Based on the lack of windows I would guess there was once a nice building there, anybody that's good with such things able to find some old pictures?

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby grant1simons2 » August 25th, 2014, 12:38 am

There might be some in my DT MPLS historical book. The exact address is 806 Hennepin

Grrrr. Yep. Beautiful part of a hotel.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby hoffm83n » August 25th, 2014, 11:50 pm

will/can anything ever be done with that random open area between the post office, hennepin and west river parkway?

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby grant1simons2 » August 25th, 2014, 11:57 pm

I'm in favor of a park or a restaurant with a river view

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby mamundsen » August 26th, 2014, 8:22 am

There is a plan to connect that down to the river. It's been discussed on here before. Keep digging through the threads...

Edit: There are renderings posted in the Hennepin Ave and Gateway Park threads.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby Nathan » August 26th, 2014, 8:26 am

it's a part of the downtown councils 2025 plan, but no actual proposal or anything

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby mullen » August 26th, 2014, 10:39 am

i remember all of the candidates vowing during a mayoral debate when RT first ran they would make that vacant lot below the post office a priority. obviously very difficult to get anything going when the feds are involved. and as has been said it needs to be part of cohesive plan to connect downtown with the river there.

there also was a plan to open those spots below the post office fronting the parkway to various vendor concepts. then 9/11 happened and the feds freaked out about security. now we have these spaces sitting empty behind gates. a waste of space imo.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis - General Topics

Postby MNdible » August 26th, 2014, 11:49 am

I think it was actually the OKC bombing that scared them off from opening them.

Pretty sure that our best bet for getting this area improved is to have the Minneapolis post office consolidated out of existence. Does anybody remember if the Eagan distribution center was designed to accommodate future expansion?

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby grant1simons2 » September 4th, 2014, 3:08 pm

Developer Harshal Patel and a group of investors paid $1 million for the 100-year-old Federal Plaza in downtown Minneapolis and plan to turn it into a small boutique hotel.

Read more: http://finance-commerce.com/2014/09/fro ... z3CNpdcG5r

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby HiawathaGuy » September 4th, 2014, 3:35 pm

Developer Harshal Patel and a group of investors paid $1 million for the 100-year-old Federal Plaza in downtown Minneapolis and plan to turn it into a small boutique hotel.
Very cool infill project.

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby grant1simons2 » September 4th, 2014, 3:46 pm

This is exactly what was needed here. I'm a bit confused about location though, is it going in right next to the Minneapolis hotel?

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby Nick » September 4th, 2014, 4:00 pm

Yo dawg: Literally just look at the picture on the link you just posted.
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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby grant1simons2 » September 4th, 2014, 4:02 pm

Ha! That's what I thought but it just didn't make much sense to me... I mean, the Hotel Minneapolis sign is attached to their building..

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby Wedgeguy » September 4th, 2014, 6:13 pm

Why I seriously have to wonder if this will ever come to fruition. Having a hard time seeing any Hotel business plan making much money with that location and floor plates and lack of views. Having the caliber of hotels that exist, are in the pipeline, and proposed that have more workable plans, I just don't see this project ever opening up.

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Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects

Postby Silophant » September 4th, 2014, 6:37 pm

Ha! That's what I thought but it just didn't make much sense to me... I mean, the Hotel Minneapolis sign is attached to their building..
Not necessarily a problem. They're not necessarily aiming for the exact same market as the Hotel Minneapolis. Even if they were, you only have to go a few blocks to see the Radisson and the Marriott across the street from one another, (almost) directly linked by skyway. Since hotels have almost no walk-up business, placement relative to each other doesn't matter as much.
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