urbanMSP

Yeah, restoring an east-west connector or two would be a good thing. Connecting Oak Grove to 17th Street seems like the most logical one, though the most technically challenging since it makes a 4-way intersection right above the middle of the Interstate. Cap the southeast and northwest quadrants e...

what is an LGA cut? Sorry, your suburban hating and, yes, apparently snobbery (it's just not you) interfer with the facts. If it weren't for the suburbanites spending millions upon millions of dollars in the city it would be bankrupt. you spend, i would guess, nothing in the suburbs yet love all th...

really mplser? Doesn't it even matter a tiny bit the the whole trend for this crap is to make it as cheap and drab as possible? Screw density if this is the answer! I'm still astounded you guys all love 222. It is what it is I guess...MPLS gets trash only and we must all be trash men. Next time you...

really mplser? Doesn't it even matter a tiny bit the the whole trend for this crap is to make it as cheap and drab as possible? Screw density if this is the answer! I'm still astounded you guys all love 222. It is what it is I guess...MPLS gets trash only and we must all be trash men. Next time you...

http://www.startribune.com/local/162117405.html

DEED Commissioner Mark Phillips says his agency will narrow its list by the end of August after weighing each project's potential for job creation, return on investment and criteria like geographic balance.

Toooootally merit-based....

Wasn't sure where exactly to post this thought, but I'm concerned that if St. Paul is trying to get $27 million in DEED money for the Lowertown stadium, and the Met Council is trying to get $14 million in DEED money for the Southwest Corridor, out of a total pot of $47 million, that probably spells ...

For what it's worth, I've been checking on this every day for ages now, and Magellan has yet to pull any sort of building permit for this project. 222 had things pulled weeks in advance of construction beginning. That's not to say that I don't think something will happen here (it almost certainly wi...

Two whole floors of concrete? Wowzers!

Not as bad with the red. I figure whenever Huron is filled in a little more in the (near?) future, it will blend in better.

Here's a link to the 2009 Master Plan , which no longer mentions messing with the Superblock, so perhaps it was a passing fancy. It does show the University long term moving to acquire or control most of the land north of Fulton and East of Huron. See specifically pages 67 and 68. Aw, that makes me...

Jersey barriers! Giant forklift! Pretty sure this sucker is a go.

I don't know enough about land use/zoning law, but what prevents the City of Minneapolis from creating a small area plan and simply "taking" the parcels in furtherance of the plan. Seems to me like there are legitimate reasons for doing so--and from what I do know, courts generally defer ...

I wonder what, if anything, they'll do to try to connect this to the rest of the University? The parking lot blocks seems miles away from the current Medical School complex, even though it's just a few blocks. The Superblock is a pretty good Berlin Wall of drunk underclassmen for doctors and researc...

I don't know if the current parking lot operates with any long-term contracts that would need to be ended in order for construction to begin, but it does seem to be thinning out a lot the past couple weeks.

Shawn had a $50 credit for Facebook Ads, so I put one together for the site and it ought to be running on Facebook. It used a dollar worth of credit in about five hours today, so not sure how long that will last. I "targeted" it to the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding...

This project is good for what it is, but when people go around saying it's going to be anything like Grand Central Station, that's misleading.

Southwest LRT Alignment (Google map view) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li9jTCH_ayk&feature=g-u-u still don't understand why 21st. Street still exists but hey it might turn that area into a nice beach spot right off the LRT There already is a cool beach there. I like it because it has almost n...

GTFO

I've also seen more than one example of rusty water dripping down the side of an apartment building from the Magic Pak hole. A couple of the A/C units in those recently built campus apartments have rust already.