urbanMSP

At this point, I have a medium-length list of places in my head where there was a redevelopment and we missed an opportunity to reconnect the grid. We blew a lot of money on watercolors for unnecessary small area plans in random parts of the city from ~1990 to ~2015, while there were a lot of areas ...

Thank you.

You generally have to do the companion certificate pretty far in advance. They've gotten real stingy with it. Had to layover in Atlanta like an animal on the way back from North Carolina on Sunday.

I wonder why Starbucks would close the store on the Commons and reopen over here so quickly?

Can't blame them for not foreseeing the pandemic, but the county spending fifty million on the Thrivent building (and taking a half block of downtown off the tax rolls) at the same time the city was building a new office building across the street was a real missed opportunity.

I forgot about that!

I think you're thinking about this:

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Which reminds me: someone should take over the forum! Who wants it? Let Sean know!

I'm starting to hope this whole Blue Line extension project collapses based on the new, proposed route. The route past Robinsdale down the middle of a 6-lane stroad is awful, and now the North Minneapolis routing is looking pretty bad. I fear the route along 10th and 21st Avenues will make access f...

Were they trying to blow stimulus money? Weird time to expand.

There's a big decal-type sign for this up on the existing building at the corner of Washington and 3rd Avenue, but they didn't splurge for fancier renderings than what we've already seen. Hope this one ends up working out!

Maybe they could partner with First Avenue to build a community performing arts space? We don't have one of those on the river up there.

Whatever happened to the Bike Coalition? You never hear about them anymore.

It was too bad that this never panned out. I thought it was a pretty good proposal and would have maybe gotten a bit more going on this side of downtown.

I always remember a MinnPost article from ages ago citing a study saying that 99% of Northsiders “have or know someone who has asthma” as an example of the hard-hitting, data-driven thinking around HERC.

There also appears to finally be some construction going on in the former McCormick and Schmick’s space at 9th & Nicollet.

I've always regretted not getting one of the Metrodome urinal troughs.

It did seem like an odd strategy to end the strike by committing to use a bunch of one time funding to create ongoing expenses when there was already a significant budget deficit--not sure if anyone noticed this at the time.

This issue is now coded as Annoying, but they should still change it. God knows what they'd come up with for a new one, though!