urbanMSP

I am downtown everyday and last week there was a significant increase in foot traffic. Most restaurants that are open have decent lines over the lunch hour. I have also seen some of the skyway restaurants starting to extend their hours.

I am downtown everyday and last week there was a significant increase in foot traffic. Most restaurants that are open have decent lines over the lunch hour. I have also seen some of the skyway restaurants starting to extend their hours.

Your observations make me wonder...are those who like to be downtown and like to go out for lunch and be around others coming back to work first? Those who don' t like the commute and rather eat at their desk and have less economic impact...are maybe less likely to come into the office?

I am downtown everyday and last week there was a significant increase in foot traffic. Most restaurants that are open have decent lines over the lunch hour. I have also seen some of the skyway restaurants starting to extend their hours.

Your observations make me wonder...are those who like to be downtown and like to go out for lunch and be around others coming back to work first? Those who don' t like the commute and rather eat at their desk and have less economic impact...are maybe less likely to come into the office?

I am downtown everyday and last week there was a significant increase in foot traffic. Most restaurants that are open have decent lines over the lunch hour. I have also seen some of the skyway restaurants starting to extend their hours.

Your observations make me wonder...are those who like to be downtown and like to go out for lunch and be around others coming back to work first? Those who don' t like the commute and rather eat at their desk and have less economic impact...are maybe less likely to come into the office?

I've been back full time in the office for over two months now. Many more people are here now than before but it's still concentrated on Tuesday - Thursday. I think downtown restaurants that are open are benefiting from less competition so they're probably still doing 80%+ of revenue now by taking a higher share of the population.

It'll be nice when the larger employers come back. I'd guess 75% of the professional services / financial firms are back in the office at this point, but the corporates / retail banks are being more cautious.

Does anyone know anything about the suburban office parks? My bias would be that businesses catering to those workers are hurting even more than downtown.

I've been back full time in the office for over two months now. Many more people are here now than before but it's still concentrated on Tuesday - Thursday. I think downtown restaurants that are open are benefiting from less competition so they're probably still doing 80%+ of revenue now by taking a higher share of the population.

It'll be nice when the larger employers come back. I'd guess 75% of the professional services / financial firms are back in the office at this point, but the corporates / retail banks are being more cautious.

Does anyone know anything about the suburban office parks? My bias would be that businesses catering to those workers are hurting even more than downtown.

This might be a good Streets.mn piece...but it would be great is someone catalogued which places are open and talked to the owners about what they've seen. I work in North, but am tempted to bike Downtown and get some lunch.

I've been back full time in the office for over two months now. Many more people are here now than before but it's still concentrated on Tuesday - Thursday. I think downtown restaurants that are open are benefiting from less competition so they're probably still doing 80%+ of revenue now by taking a higher share of the population.

It'll be nice when the larger employers come back. I'd guess 75% of the professional services / financial firms are back in the office at this point, but the corporates / retail banks are being more cautious.

Does anyone know anything about the suburban office parks? My bias would be that businesses catering to those workers are hurting even more than downtown.

Maybe we should assess a fee on the people that eat at their desk rather than go out and eat due to the "negative externalities" they cause.

From CPC Packet.

240 Portland (22 stories) is back and Red Lake Nation wants a college next to US Bank Stadium. I couldn't find a thread on 240 Portland.


https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... land%20Ave
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/download ... d%20St%20S

By my math, that puts us at more than 1350 market-rate units in the four downtown apartment towers that are in the early stages of construction or about to break ground: this, 240 Portland/O2, 21 N Washington, and North Loop Green, in addition to the ninety affordable units adjacent to 240 Portland and the hundred short-term rentals in North Loop Green. Guess those "downtowns are dead forever" takes from early in the pandemic aren't really panning out.