West End area - St. Louis Park / Golden Valley
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On that note, Olive Garden is closed.
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Damn really? I thought that was next month. Wanted to go one last time.
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I believe they have relocated to 394 and Hopkins Crossroad.
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Yes, they built a new building.
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Guess you'll have to microwave your own pasta sauce.Damn really? I thought that was next month. Wanted to go one last time.
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So it looks like the framing of the Spec office building in West End is up to about the 6th floor but I don't see anything that looks like an elevator core. Is this common? It seems that usually the elevator bank rises with the building. Just curious.
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In most taller buildings, a cast-in-place concrete elevator core is part of the lateral bracing that prevents the building from tipping over in a stiff breeze. But the steel framing of the building can do the same thing by introducing floor-to-floor diagonal bracing, or by other more complicated structural trickery.
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Punch Bowl Social is closing due to Covid-19 http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2020/ma ... shuts-down
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Guess they changed their mind. Only temporary nowPunch Bowl Social is closing due to Covid-19 http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2020/ma ... shuts-down
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10 West End has landed their first tenant in the speculative offices under construction. CarVal Investors, a spin off from Cargill if I understand it right.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ffice.html
Relocating from offices at Excelsior Crossing in Hopkins to the other end of the North Cedar Lake Trail.
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Relocating from offices at Excelsior Crossing in Hopkins to the other end of the North Cedar Lake Trail.
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Ryan planning the matching pair to 10 West End… will be 20 West End.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... lding.html
The surface lots are disappearing over there.
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The surface lots are disappearing over there.
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Are we close to hitting some kind of urban density threshold in this area? Still untold acres of parking around, but it's certainly an area with real promise.
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I wish we would have good frequent transit to that area! But the 9 and 645 really dissapoint.Are we close to hitting some kind of urban density threshold in this area? Still untold acres of parking around, but it's certainly an area with real promise.
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It boggles the mind that, as far as I can tell, there's not even a preliminary plan for BRT on 394.
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How are the older office buildings doing in the area? I know IHeart takes up a lot of space in the south building (1600 Utica). Is Moneygram still in 1550 Utica?
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There was some preliminary study of a 394 BRT line in the Highway Transitway Corridor Study (2014) https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation ... Study.aspx It actually rated well in the study.
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That study IIRC along with most other corridors studies had some pretty dismal end to end travel times due to a lot of offline stops to park and rides. I would like to see one that had some on line or in line stations to make it more competitive with driving.There was some preliminary study of a 394 BRT line in the Highway Transitway Corridor Study (2014) https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation ... Study.aspx It actually rated well in the study.
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They could start with giving the 645 half decent frequencyThere was some preliminary study of a 394 BRT line in the Highway Transitway Corridor Study (2014) https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation ... Study.aspx It actually rated well in the study.
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Is it completely infeasible to study a single-stop LRT extension with a station, perhaps, in the center of Park Pl Blvd? It wouldn't be "cheap", per se, but could likely be completely state-funded and thus circumvent FTA requirements and maybe have an accelerated timeline. You could envision a piecemeal, station-by-station extension to General Mills, Ridgedale, and even Wayzata as funding is available. My napkin math for the first leg is 1.5 miles of track, one trainset, and one station - maybe $150M - $200M?
I know this is more than a bit pie-in-the-sky - probably the biggest hurdles would be political will in the face of SWLRT, and also how you would run it operationally. Running a single train back and forth from Target Field might be the cheapest option if there was just the one station at West End, but a better long-term option would probably be running it as an entirely new service, interlined to either MoA or DT St Paul (or both), but either of those would require significantly more trainsets.
I know this is more than a bit pie-in-the-sky - probably the biggest hurdles would be political will in the face of SWLRT, and also how you would run it operationally. Running a single train back and forth from Target Field might be the cheapest option if there was just the one station at West End, but a better long-term option would probably be running it as an entirely new service, interlined to either MoA or DT St Paul (or both), but either of those would require significantly more trainsets.
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The claim has always been that the 5th St segment downtown cannot support trains more frequently than every five minutes (per direction), so 10 minute frequency on two services is the best that can be done unless a tunnel is built. I'm reasonably sure that the issue is more a refusal to delay cross traffic more than an actual engineering constraint, since Dallas manages to interline four services through their downtown segment, but that's what they say.
I've thought for a while that the best solution to the Kenilworth bottleneck issues would just have been to single-track between 21st St and Lake St stations, and split into a 20-minute frequency branch that does the current SWLRT route and a complementary branch that goes to West End and then down 394 to wherever, but that ship clearly sailed years and years ago.
I've thought for a while that the best solution to the Kenilworth bottleneck issues would just have been to single-track between 21st St and Lake St stations, and split into a 20-minute frequency branch that does the current SWLRT route and a complementary branch that goes to West End and then down 394 to wherever, but that ship clearly sailed years and years ago.
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