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https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... pment.html

Proposal for 26th and Bloomington. Most units will be 2-3 bed room units

Saw the plans for this posted to the Planning Commission COW. The variance request for the sideyard setback (8' off of the common property line right next to a house, 6 stories tall) seems like the kind of "developer's problem, not the city's problem" that should be denied.

Saw the plans for this posted to the Planning Commission COW. The variance request for the sideyard setback (8' off of the common property line right next to a house, 6 stories tall) seems like the kind of "developer's problem, not the city's problem" that should be denied.

Here's the packet https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... gton%20Ave

Lydia House planning to expand apartment building onto part of their surface lot: http://minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/pub ... 214022.pdf

This has broken ground, parking lot is gone and excavation underway.

Reuter Walton is proposing an 86-unit affordable apartment building on the north side of the Midtown Greenway between 11th & 12th, near the Midtown Exchange building.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ments.html

This one continues to drive me nuts, because the bike room is located on the opposite side of the building as a major interchange on the Greenway. It's inexplicable to me that they couldn't have put the bike room on the west side of the building, instead of the east side. It's a small issue, but it's totally unnecessary.

Info on proposed development at 4301 East Lake St. Former site of Dragon City Cafe.

https://longfellow.org/2021/08/12/devel ... e-lake-st/

Awesome.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this project yet: http://www.southwestjournal.com/news/de ... g-project/, a senior housing project in the vacant area north of Sabathani Community Center.

This is basically done and looks really good, fits the neighborhood and meets the street very well.

Driving on the West River Parkway, turned on 42nd Street E since it looked open after construction, and noticed that the road is much narrower than before and there is an actual bike trail between the parkway and 46th Avenue (on the side of Minnehaha Academy lower campus). I didn't know that was the project, is this going to be extended up 42nd Street? Is the era of "Sharrows" over so soon?

I also drove through that section last night - looks really good. I don't think there are immediate plans to reconstruct the rest of 42nd quite yet. The County-maintained section (Cedar to Minnehaha Ave) features the highest traffic counts and the worst of the sharrows and disappearing bike lanes, but the pavement isn't in bad enough shape for full reconstruction. The City-maintained portion (Nicollet to Cedar) is in much worse shape and will be coming up for a full reconstruct within this decade. I think it was added to the CLIC docket pretty recently, so it must be around 5 years out at best.

What would you all prefer to see on those sections of 42nd? I think it's reasonable to assume it will be an above-the-curb bikeway due to the wide ROW available in a full reconstruction. Would you rather it be separate one-way bikeways like 66th Street or a two-way bikeway like this easternmost section of 42nd near the river? If the former, where would you put the transition from the new section's two-way bikeway to separate one-way paths?

EDIT: I dug into the project mattaudio linked below regarding the 2023 projects to add ped refuge medians and eliminate the sharrow zones by removing parking (except at 28th, and as you approach Hiawatha in the eastbound direction), the County in fact plans to resurface and re-stripe their portion of 42nd (Cedar to Minnehaha Ave) in "late 2023 or early 2024, following the intersection project". Hopefully common sense prevails and they can just do this all as a single project. It would be bonkers to restripe around these four intersections and then come back to do the areas between each of the four intersections (Cedar, 21st, 26th, and Nokomis Ave). They share a slide at 18:25 in the open house video at this link: https://www.hennepin.us/residents/trans ... e-and-42nd

Upcoming Hennepin County HSIP project should eliminate most of the sharrow zones on 42nd St. The only ones likely to remain after this are at 28th Ave and the nasty drop at Hiawatha/34th Ave.

https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... y%20Layout

Sharrows begone! I would guess the grade-separated bike path and the considerable narrowing of the street between River Rd and 46th Ave is a more pronounced attempt at traffic calming and avoiding pedestrian/cyclist/car interactions given the school's proximity? Whatever the reason, should be a huge improvement all around.

I mean, this is ok? I live on 30th Ave and crossing 42nd usually sucks. Anything to slow down cars on this street I'm in favor of. Between Cedar and 28th Ave is really terrible.

I just saw Sundial on facebook- looks real good! It's from a Detroit based firm that is working on small-scale missing-middle type housing. https://fabrick-design.com/

Fencing going up on this site. Really happy to see this kicking off. Love this project.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... treet.html
What might replace the burned down T-Mobile at 2815 E Lake St

Looks like this isn't going to happen. Vacant lot is now for sale https://www.realtor.com/realestateandho ... 0370-18678

Well this is disappointing I was hoping to see some of these empty plots developed quickly to keep momentum along lake st going.

Looks like the PPL/Family Partnership project on the southeast corner of Lake & Bloomington is underway. Foundations going in north of the Powderhorn Post Office.

Is this project multiple phases? It looks like an apartment complex is going up along 16th.

https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... llet%20Ave

plans submitted for the first part of the wells fargo that burnt down off lake and nicollet