urbanMSP

I just documented the demolition photographically. There won't be much left in two hours.

I wonder what the anti-development crowd will think up to try to prevent this from moving any further now that they cant use historic preservation as an excuse?

Out of scale with the neighborhood?

I tried looking through the previous pages but there's 36 of them and I can't find the answer to this question, so I apologize for being "lazy": is the proposed development still on for this site, or are they just tearing the house down with no pending development?

If I can recall correctly I really liked the way this proposal looked and I thought it'd be a great fit!

The development is still on as far as I know.

Did it get approvals or is it still in limbo? (I'm trying to update my tracking sheet)

It was approved on Aug. 25, 2014, a few months after the whole preservation fight.

Plans: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/gro ... 131541.pdf

42 units over 4 stories, and primarily smaller 1BRs. Just four 2BR units, and not very spacious at that. In retrospect, instead of fighting the whole thing, it might've been more productive for the neighborhood to ask them to build slightly fewer, but slightly larger units in the same or similar building. They actually could have gone up to 6 stories with existing zoning, but chose to stop at 4 stories, probably at the time thinking it would have found an easier path to approval. (see the beginning of this thread for the initial larger development that was quickly replaced by the current version)

I'm sure the smaller units contributed to the projected low monthly rents (the parking being the other piece). I can't imagine them being smaller having much, if any, impact on neighbors.

I got pics at the same time a news crew filmed. I don't have strong politics about the project but it was a little sad.

2320 Colfax demolition 2-24-15 by bapster2006, on Flickr

http://wedgelive.blogspot.com/2015/02/g ... -hand.html

Has anyone forwarded this to HGTV? Look at the backlash when other TV personalities go off the rails. This is not cool!

Dear god I hope Lisa never reads those comments. I can't imagine reading comments like that about myself, even if they are mostly coming from southern/rural/conservative half-wits

Repellent. Unbecoming. Irresponsible.

omg. lida benster.

I ran out of time to do research tonight but if anyone wants to run with it and find contact information...

http://www.scrippsnetworksinteractive.c ... een-Finch/

Also:

http://www.scrippsnetworksinteractive.c ... /contacts/
http://ir.scrippsnetworksinteractive.co ... rol-IRHome

But I suppose I'd advise anyone to not do something that seems to interfere with a contractual relations.

Hodges finally commented on this:
https://www.facebook.com/betsy.hodges.7 ... 7119442379

And it started a whole other round from Curtis:
https://www.facebook.com/nicolecurtisre ... 4515065621
https://www.facebook.com/nicolecurtisre ... =1&theater

It's approaching Consortium-level mythos.

I was watching a thing on Netflix last night about Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre. It had interviews with two people that lived there, including Jones' son, as well as a few survivors from the congressional delegation. There was a lot of talk about Jim Jones and how he felt persecuted and was convinced that everyone was spreading lies about him and he just wanted the "truth" to get out but all of it with the recurring tone that he really only had a tenuous grasp with reality.

I feel like I'm getting the same vibe from some of the... man I don't even know what to call the "opposition." It's easy to lump them up as preservationists but I don't think thats fair to rational people that like preservation. Orth house fetishists? Healy fetishists? But it feels like there's a group of people operating on a plane of reality similar to ours but not exactly like ours. I mean, I don't want to say they're all mentally ill, but I got a similar vibe watching this Jim Jones movie as I do reading some of the MRRDC/Healy Project/Nicole Curtis/Brian Finistad stuff.