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Re: General Suburb News

Postby web » April 8th, 2014, 6:27 pm

not in 60 but a lot of richfield was in the 20s or 30s

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Silophant » April 8th, 2014, 6:37 pm

That would be the easiest way for Minneapolis to hit 500,000 citizens.

Not necessarily Brooklyn Park, right away, though. Start with Robbinsdale and Lauderdale, and the remainder of Richfield.
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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Nick » April 8th, 2014, 7:12 pm

Places with the street grid are one thing, but I wouldn't (and I'm not in charge) want anywhere with a postwar development pattern. Not that there's none of that in the city already, obviously...
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Re: General Suburb News

Postby min-chi-cbus » April 8th, 2014, 9:29 pm

post-war development WITHIN the city is quite rare, I think. Most of the bungalows south of 50th street were built in the 40's, if that's what you mean by post-war. Otherwise the streets and parks weren't laid out in any kind of post-war pattern that I can think of.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby seanrichardryan » April 8th, 2014, 9:49 pm

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9950551 ... a=!3m1!1e3

Also, you can easily see the path of the tornado through the Northside on google earth.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.0109794 ... a=!3m1!1e3
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Re: General Suburb News

Postby mattaudio » April 9th, 2014, 2:00 pm

Developer proposes new housing in Lakeville:
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/254045531.html
Nearly 1000 single family homes on 470 acres. Hierarchical street/collector/stroad network.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby mulad » April 9th, 2014, 2:03 pm

...and this again over in St. Paul:



There are pockets of redevelopment all over, such as these rambler-style houses a few blocks further north of the big red blob.

...and there's the West Side Flats area, Energy Park, and other St. Paul Port Authority projects... St. Paul also literally has a "Suburban Avenue", though I'm not sure if that was a redevelopment or what.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Tom H. » April 11th, 2014, 8:24 am

Officials in Hopkins are hoping to get federal money to redevelop an office building near the Hopkins SWLRT stop into a hotel + park-and-ride combination. Here's the story in the StarTribune.
...a big park-and-ride there would allow the city to reduce the number of parking spaces planned at the Blake Road and Shady Oak Road stations, thus freeing more space for redevelopment activities at those sites. An unnamed housing developer is already eyeing the Blake station but is being stymied by the size of its proposed parking deck, said Kersten Elverum, Hopkins’ planning and development director.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Anondson » April 11th, 2014, 8:54 am

What is new in this story is the news that the Blake Station has a developer eyeing it for a housing development. That Johnson building is ugly as sin, but it is fully occupied with taxpaying businesses the owner doesn't want to sell (yet). While he can't be surprised that the city has hoped his property becomes a TOD (plans have been public for years now) and he hasn't objected to those ever, his raising objections just because a proposal is out there that has a parking ramp is a bit hollow.

I still have a painful time eminent domaining a successful business out of existence just to HOPE something else comes along that you'd rather have...

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby mattaudio » April 15th, 2014, 8:18 pm

Anyone have details about the 26-story office tower that was once proposed for Burnsville?
http://en.phorio.com/concorde_centre,_b ... ted_states

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby fehler » April 15th, 2014, 10:11 pm

Scott county is considering a 1/2 cent sales tax to fund transportation/transit projects (as allowed now, since they didn't join the Counties Transit Improvement Board group or whatever that's called). They've created an online forum to gather public comment, and its about what you'd expect from a group of Scott County internet users. http://www.co.scott.mn.us/CountyGov/Spe ... /home.aspx

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Silophant » April 15th, 2014, 10:23 pm

Sigh. My favorite:
1/2 cent sales tax (on every dollar?) will make it more expensive to shop in Scott County.
No, it's 1/2 cent on every third dollar. If you can keep all your purchases to $2.99 or below, you never have to pay it!
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Re: General Suburb News

Postby twincitizen » April 16th, 2014, 6:59 am

FYI: ^I moved some of that transit funding discussion to the CTIB thread in the Transportation forum.

Development booming on numerous city-owned parcels in New Hope: http://www.startribune.com/local/north/255386481.html

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby lorwest » April 16th, 2014, 4:44 pm

Anyone have details about the 26-story office tower that was once proposed for Burnsville?
http://en.phorio.com/concorde_centre,_b ... ted_states
I don't know how serious the proposal was, but it's from the mid-1980's. The street Concorde Place may be related to this development. It's located just off of Burnsville Parkway, east of 35W, southwest of Heart of the City.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Wedgeguy » April 26th, 2014, 10:35 pm

Was on HWY100 the other day, when I saw a new building going up at the SE quadrant of the 100/494 interchange area. Is that another hotel or apartment building?

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Tcmetro » April 27th, 2014, 9:19 am

Minnetonka keeps an organized list of projects:

http://www.eminnetonka.com/community_de ... ojects.cfm

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby Anondson » April 27th, 2014, 9:23 am

I was just checking Minnetonka's page just last week trying to find an update on the HCMC proposal at Excelsior and Shady Oak. Very useful.

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Re: General Suburb News

Postby maxbaby » April 28th, 2014, 2:12 pm

Canterbury Park to build an events center.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/b ... enter.html

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Re: Suburbs - General Topics

Postby twincitizen » April 29th, 2014, 2:55 pm

Suburbs crack down on problem landlords, homeowners:
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/256848911.html

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Re: Suburbs - General Topics

Postby twincitizen » May 6th, 2014, 7:24 am

Lots of "junior box" retail vacancies coming to Twin Cities suburbs, as Office Depot / Office Max plan to close 400 stores nationwide from 2014-2016.
http://www.startribune.com/business/258094971.html


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