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by Silophant
March 16th, 2024, 8:48 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
Replies: 1432
Views: 472833

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News

Fifth time's the charm!
by Silophant
March 15th, 2024, 2:41 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Replies: 964
Views: 334343

Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics

According to their Instagram and Facebook, Aki's Breadhaus is moving to a larger location next to Broken Clock Brewing at 1712 Marshall.
by Silophant
March 14th, 2024, 4:54 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: St. Anthony Main - General Topics
Replies: 34
Views: 24231

Re: St. Anthony Main - General Topics

Oooh, that's what they're up to in there. That'll be nice - Frgmnt's been pretty lonely on that block ever since Pivo's bold attempt to be a beer bar that closes at 8pm sharp ran out of steam.
by Silophant
March 7th, 2024, 1:42 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 952266

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

I've always really liked the idea someone pitched on streets.mn tenish years ago of completing the wye in Cedar-Riverside, allowing (Teal Line?) trains to go directly from the Hiawatha tracks to the Washington tracks. Allows direct connections from campus to the airport, and enables increased freque...
by Silophant
February 28th, 2024, 12:40 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
Replies: 625
Views: 383388

Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)

All Aboard Minnesota has an update in their Q1 Newsletter. Still no start date, but apparently operating agreements are nearing completion. The service will be named the Borealis. Thematically appropriate if the long-term intent is to combine it with NLX once that gets going.
by Silophant
February 27th, 2024, 9:32 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 770619

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

I really like the idea of a rink in Gateway Park. And it might be easier to fund it there than elsewhere - as the only normal MPRB park (the riverfront stuff is a regional park, and the Commons is a whole separate district) in the Downtown West neighborhood, it's the only place that the park dedicat...
by Silophant
February 20th, 2024, 10:05 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
Replies: 5
Views: 826

Re: Amtrak: Long-distance trains

As for the study, I'd been waiting for it to come out, but I was surprised to see three separate MSP-points south trains in addition to the restored Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha, which is in a little more advanced stage of planning - it got a $500k FRA grant from the BIL a couple months ago....
by Silophant
February 20th, 2024, 10:00 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
Replies: 625
Views: 383388

Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Great River (TCMC)

Mod note: split discussion of the FRA Long-Distance study off to its own thread.
by Silophant
February 20th, 2024, 9:58 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
Replies: 5
Views: 826

Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Great River (TCMC)

This is the FRA running a study for recommended long-distance train routes, which theoretically could be operated by any entity, but Amtrak is the only passenger rail organization in the US that can (relatively) easily operate on the various host railroads' tracks, and also the only one that's run a...
by Silophant
February 20th, 2024, 9:34 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 952
Views: 219593

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

This almost reads to me like malicious compliance with the legislative directive. Appendix B clarifies that it's just an update of the pre-pandemic study from 2020, adding more St. Cloud service on top of the six daily Big Lake-Mpls roundtrips, all during peak am and pm hours, with all the rolling s...
by Silophant
February 19th, 2024, 11:37 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Replies: 227
Views: 164183

Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News

Might have been a pandemic change to all of them? I just clicked around the HyVee website, and 6-11pm seems to be the standard hours now in (outstate) MN, SD, and IA. For comparison, there's still a few 24 hour Cub Foods around, but most of them seems to be 5am to midnight.
by Silophant
February 13th, 2024, 9:15 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station
Replies: 81
Views: 56099

Re: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station

According to this BIHZ committee item , the modular housing factory is now slated for 1400 Washington Ave N. Seems like a better bet - still pretty central and transit accessible, but isn't a truck-heavy industrial use directly adjacent to an LRT station. On a similar note, Modist Brewing bought 301...
by Silophant
February 12th, 2024, 7:39 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories
Replies: 72
Views: 83377

Re: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories

Walked by last night, and there's an excavator and a construction trailer on site. This might actually be breaking ground, very nearly a decade after the first proposal and 4.5 years after the revised version was pitched?

Wild.
by Silophant
January 30th, 2024, 7:02 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 545726

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Notably, there are not four tracks at Target Field, where this very same system has two services interlining. There's storage space past the last platform, sure, but Union Depot has that too, a whole maintenance facility's worth. I'm perfectly willing to buy the junction at 5th and Cedar being chall...
by Silophant
January 27th, 2024, 11:30 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 952
Views: 219593

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

Remember that, even though it's not moving particularly quickly, the NLX project received a big chunk of state funding last year, and includes a Foley Blvd station. The Met Council isn't going to stand up a separate project to build that for MnDOT on their own.
by Silophant
January 9th, 2024, 9:07 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1001901

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

The 1st Ave N bike lanes were parking protected for fiveish years (~2010-2015). It was an abject failure, there was pretty much always someone parked in them. I've always wondered if compliance would have been better in a part of the city where it was the same group of local residents and/or workers...
by Silophant
January 4th, 2024, 12:50 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 952266

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

If we're building the new highway bridge from scratch with 21st St and ramp reconfigurations, etc, (which I'm still a little flabbergasted that we're apparently doing), I've gotta imagine it can include a station as well. Seems more expensive than the originally pitched idea of elevating the tracks ...
by Silophant
January 3rd, 2024, 11:19 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: RiverNorth Broadway
Replies: 2
Views: 13142

RiverNorth Broadway

The office building proposal at the corner of Washington and Broadway that popped up back in 2022 has blossomed into a proposal to redevelop all four corners of the Broadway/2nd St N. intersection . According to this (locked) Finance & Commerce article, the ION Corp office/production facility is...
by Silophant
December 7th, 2023, 12:03 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Nicollet Mall
Replies: 1466
Views: 533821

Re: Nicollet Mall

Since everything (except the 11, I guess) would have to get back to Nicollet at the south end anyway, running down Hennepin would mean using 11th/12th to connect back to Nicollet, or just 12th if the Orange Line contraflow lane was extended to Hennepin (or all the way to Linden/394, if we're thinkin...