So do they throw down the future arcology card to help get city approval or something?Hogan called the plan for the third tower, which will be built last and its height ultimately determined by market demand and financing, “aspirational.”
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- December 29th, 2023, 8:27 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21348
Re: Oklahoma City
Developer seems honest about it...
- December 26th, 2023, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319751
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It wouldn't be unprecedented. When the Blue Line opened in 2004, the initial service was downtown to Ft. Snelling Station since the airport tunnel was not yet complete.
- December 24th, 2023, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21348
Re: Oklahoma City
1,750 ft supertall, second tallest in U.S., proposed. June and Retiredbanker unavailable for comment. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/developer-to-build-2nd-tallest-building-in-the-us-for-okc-apartments/71937684007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/15...
- December 19th, 2023, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 862205
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
If anything the "one week per quarter" thing gives me the impression they ***don't intend*** to have people come back on a regular, consistent basis (which is fine IMO). My company is remote-first, and we generally do the same thing for on-sites/strategy sessions. 1-2x per year for the ent...
- December 19th, 2023, 8:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092041
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Probably just me in the fantasy thread: viewtopic.php?p=153485Has there been any proposal to have any kind of rail their downtown in the past 30 years?
- December 19th, 2023, 8:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 214150
Re: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Doomsday preppers want old trucks before computer-controlled engines (EMP hardened) running on diesel (easier to bulk store for long term without degradation). And not just one bug-out truck, but a menu of vehicle options to survive different scenarios.
Or so I've heard...
Or so I've heard...
- December 15th, 2023, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1026289
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
So they've looked at a viaduct over the CR 81 viaduct to get the station on the North Memorial side of the intersection, and they've looked at leaving it at grade under the CR81 viaduct. But why not just have a station at the same level as the CR81 viaduct with vertical circulation on each side?
- December 15th, 2023, 11:55 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 252844
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
"People probably need to do some self reflection," whether true or not, isn't the political sales pitch one may think it is.
- December 11th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Rochester
- Replies: 591
- Views: 462846
Re: Rochester
Really sad how the only walkable streetscapes in Rochester is under threat, both the Broadway project above and the news of the long-time Dooley's spot (the only redeeming street-life-creating part of the parking ramp they built across their only historic streetscape less than two decades ago) closi...
- December 4th, 2023, 9:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052890
Re: Transit Crime
better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort A majority of the issues with Metro Transit right now are failures of the state and federal governments to provide enough social services and housing, issues a transit agency has neither the funds nor ability to solve. Are t...
- December 1st, 2023, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 376844
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Those two new FIS-connected gates on G (which block other FIS gates) won't keep up with this growth. The final draft 2040 plan plans a mid-term project to rebuild the Green/Gold ramps (oldest/closest to the T1 drop-off) with that space having expanded curbside areas and a new FIS facility. A reconst...
- November 30th, 2023, 11:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 582731
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
An old option to get rid of those tight ramps, which would be compatible with their desire to use the northern half of the lower/existing bridge deck for trains with a tight turn west of the Ft. Snelling chapel.
- November 1st, 2023, 8:50 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 862205
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
This Wall Street Journal article features Downtown Minneapolis and highlights the high office vacancy rate and conversion of some buildings to housing: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/wrecking-ball-targets-empty-downtown-offices-d0e3391 archive without paywall https://archive.ph/bTdX0#se...
- November 1st, 2023, 8:40 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 835710
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
They better keep the plan to have a gondola cross the river and enter the west side of the post office for its downtown terminus.
- October 18th, 2023, 11:17 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 183
- Views: 168153
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
A little history lesson on the Dan Patch Line: With a north-south route that has/had several connections to east-west railroads and avoiding the busy rail yards in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Dan Patch Line was quite successful with interchange traffic going from one major railroad to another maj...
- October 2nd, 2023, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
- Replies: 247
- Views: 134103
Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings
I expect TC&W to request funding to repair some track in Savage so then maybe they'll finally start running grain trains on the Dan Patch Line again. But then again I've heard rumors CPKC isn't very supportive of that initiative, even though TC&W has trackage rights on the Dan Patch Line. N...
- September 13th, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 376844
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Has anyone seen which terminal LH will use? Aer Lingus was in T1 along with the other oneworld airlines American and Alaska (though Alaska is new to oneworld since Aer Lingus' previous suspension). Lufthansa's Star Alliance friends United and Air Canada are in T1 as well. But T1's international arri...
- September 12th, 2023, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
- Replies: 225
- Views: 420573
Re: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
Does this have an interior skyway connection even if on the main floor?I wonder why Starbucks would close the store on the Commons and reopen over here so quickly?
- September 12th, 2023, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
- Replies: 135
- Views: 176281
Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
Too bad, because some combination of the following would be great: - Realign Fort Road Bridge to connect with Shepard instead of W 7th. W 7th could end at Davern for connection to Shepard/Hwy 5, and the existing W. 7th corridor cutting through the grid could stay for streetcar/LRT from the bridge to...
- September 11th, 2023, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
- Replies: 135
- Views: 176281
Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
I wonder why the skyway wasn't connected to the west side of the freeway... that could have provided some TOD as well.