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- March 25th, 2024, 9:22 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317741
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I swear if someone sneezes on the light rail KSTP will write 3 articles about it. Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm starting to suspect KSTP is secretly owned by a group of exurban landowners, right on the fringe of current development, who'd be in line for a huge payday if their si...
- August 7th, 2023, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Shakopee - Savage - Prior Lake - Scott County
- Replies: 47
- Views: 48562
Re: Shakopee - Savage - Prior Lake - Scott County
Pretty offensive conduct, imo. https://sahanjournal.com/housing/shakopee-city-officials-prairie-pointe-development-beacon-affordable-housing/ Plus, the usual NIMBYs losing their minds at the prospect of living near anyone who makes less money. One imagines a Semisonic parody: "Suburb time / Yo...
- June 18th, 2021, 7:16 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Future of Graco campus - St. Anthony West
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10376
Re: Future of Graco campus - St. Anthony West
Perhaps Tokyo, Seoul, or Singapore could provide some insights into how manufacturing is done in dense urban areas. I recall reading that Tokyo's zoning model (and maybe Japanese practice as a whole?) was to assign intensity levels to each kind of use, then zone areas for a maximum intensity level ...
- May 7th, 2021, 9:00 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: The Gatsby - 1400 Park Avenue
- Replies: 155
- Views: 96577
Re: 1400 Park Avenue
"East Town, meet East Egg!"I'm just going to assume the marketing team never bothered to read the book...
- September 15th, 2020, 4:01 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 860517
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
I guess there just wasn't a will to stay out in the burbs!!!That 50-acre campus off of Intestate 694
...I'll show myself out.
- March 20th, 2020, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
- Replies: 1261
- Views: 572207
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
Is it? It feels like going out to a restaurant is a direct contradiction to the official medical/epidemiological advice. It's a virus, not omnipresent radioactivity. It still requires an exposure. By maintaining more than the CDC-recommended physical distance, one renders that necessary exposure ev...
- March 9th, 2020, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 650147
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
This is sort of the issue with the speed limits and signal cycles: they don't seem to match. For example downtown is 30mph, but if you're driving north on 3rd Ave starting from 11th all of the lights are timed for 35-40mph almost all the way to the LRT. So either you speed or wait for 6 more reds t...
- March 9th, 2020, 1:26 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Electric Scooters
- Replies: 102
- Views: 38353
Re: Electric Scooters
Saw a couple of people scooting in Minneapolis yesterday, but I was biking the opposite direction and didn't get a long enough glance to see if there were commercial logos (vs. private ownership).
- January 24th, 2020, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northside - News & General Topics
- Replies: 398
- Views: 265865
Re: Northside - General Topics
Weird how development and crime can co-exist. It's true, isn't it? I've long suspected that frenetic news coverage of Crime™ is just a tool aimed at playing to the anxieties of a rich suburban demographic and/or inducing them to move farther and farther out to ever-more-unsustainable exurban distan...
- January 24th, 2020, 1:10 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
- Replies: 1102
- Views: 421395
Re: Southside - General Topics
And it's dollars to donuts that the "Chicago ghetto" complainant at the meeting would be Outraged™ if you dared to suggest that their comment was racist...
- January 24th, 2020, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
- Replies: 166
- Views: 94089
Re: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
I've long been curious about the economics of dedicated 55+ housing. It seems like there is more of it around than there is demand for it, especially relative to market rate apartments, but I could be wrong on that. My perception has been that, with a recent exception in Hermantown, this is the kin...
- June 7th, 2019, 8:37 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Lunds & Noko(mis) Apartments - Cedar & Minnehaha Pkwy
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23521
Re: Bergan's Redevelopment - Cedar & Minnehaha Parkway
"They're trying to turn our neighborhood into MINNEAPOLIS!!!"NextDoor is absolutely on fire over this one. So much
- May 4th, 2019, 6:22 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 517690
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
And if you see my reflection in the empty retail space
A feloney brought me down...
A feloney brought me down...
- March 20th, 2019, 4:26 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Vision Loss Resources Redevelopment - Lyndale & Franklin
- Replies: 48
- Views: 46217
Re: Southside - General Topics
Apartment tower may be next at Franklin and Lyndale (locked) https://finance-commerce.com/files/2019/03/web-VLR-concept-1.jpg I'm in Nathan's neck of the woods, and I... um... actually woofed when I saw this. (For the uninitiated, woofs are a fairly standard expression of ursine admiration -- but t...
- March 20th, 2019, 4:15 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: City Club Apartments - 1000 Marquette Ave (Handicraft Building)
- Replies: 382
- Views: 82057
Re: City Club Apartments - 1000 Marquette Ave (Handicraft Building)
Gotta give the readership of the Strib's South Metro edition something to grouse about. Those damn urban Millennials and their Sexy Baths...Sexy bath??
- March 14th, 2019, 2:27 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: City Club Apartments - 1000 Marquette Ave (Handicraft Building)
- Replies: 382
- Views: 82057
Re: City Club Apartments - 1000 Marquette Ave (Handicraft Building)
Actually, it's both. Central Business District oil can be prescribed for your urbanism-skeptical neighbors to soothe their complaints about too much height / not enough parking.Maybe capitalizing on the CBD oil trend...
- November 21st, 2018, 3:38 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Riversedge (Former West Publishing / County Jail site)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 106652
Re: Former West Publishing / County Jail development site
Like almost all major cities nationwide, our compact and sustainable cores got sprawled out into oblivion, and it's going to take a while to get that genie back in the bottle. In the meantime, we do have to find a way of getting farther-out populations into the central cities, in order to help them ...
- November 20th, 2018, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Riversedge (Former West Publishing / County Jail site)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 106652
Re: Former West Publishing / County Jail development site
Odds are at least one person from Highland Park will come down to warn the city council about all the Noise, Traffic, and People We Don't Know™ that will result from this development. Save our livable downtown!!11!!11!1!
- November 2nd, 2018, 11:27 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 416858
- October 11th, 2018, 11:07 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Highland Bridge: Ford Site Redevelopment
- Replies: 199
- Views: 180904
Re: Ford Plant Redevelopment - Highland Park
jtoemke, I commend you for being able to stay courteous, mainly because I can't. My own approach would be much snarkier. "It sounds as though the anti-development crowd is saying that 'hell is other people'. You know who originally said that? Sartre. He was French. FRENCH!!!! Do you really want...