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Technically, wouldn't it be (relatively) easy and somewhat cheap to just dig a few feet deeper along the trench if clearance was an issue? CERTAINLY cheaper than replacing 1-2 dozen bridges! You should probably call them and suggest that. That seems like a painfully obvious solution that's never oc...

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What?! But piling on is so much fun! I'd rather have an abandoned car dealership for another decade than let a private developer build a six story building with a grocery store! There isn't a bunch of surface parking literally next to this site, so no one will be able to build any towers in this ar...

I'm a bit confused at the enthusiasm for this project. I guess i must be wrong with my disappointment; since it appears I'm the only one that just hates this project. Hopefully it looks better at the end of the day. I'm a bit disappointed with this project too. I like that downtown will be getting ...

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Omg? Utility relocation? Omg?

Just saw this and noticed some similarities to the renderings on the last page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cg1_expo_exterior.jpg

If you head down to Peavy for one last look you won't find a waterfall, nothing has been operating all summer and I don't expect it to be turned back on. One thing you find plenty of will be panhandlers, drunks and drug dealing. Pretty disgusting IMO. I support the idea of "Occupy" but th...

The space between the northbound and southbound decks of the Washington Avenue Bridge has been filled in, which somehow makes going across it on the bus seem way safer.

Wow, you're so wrong about urban neighborhoods it's not even funny.

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Very mature, fellas!

I know but like...I think you know what I mean.

If the residents of Uptown want to shop there, it would be awesome if they walked or biked. The beauty of the parking lot is that the people from the suburbs can park there, and spend their money in Uptown instead of St. Louis Park or Bloomington. This seems like a pretty big missed opportunity. Th...

That whole thing...

Wow, you're so wrong about urban neighborhoods it's not even funny.

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A Strib article from 3/4/03 says that Sherman's plans for the site included "construction of a Cub Foods store, a Hennepin County medical clinic to replace an existing clinic across the street, 300 to 400 housing units, and some smaller retail shops." Not too extravagant - it would have t...

From a brief glimpse I've seen of some of the other proposals, this wasn't the most impressive -- probably just the most affordable.

Given its location next to HERC I'm happy they didn't spend the extra money to get Calatrava to design the thing

Yeah. I really, really wish they would have thought a little bigger and taken out the tofu house as well. It looks ridiculous the way it is now. http://maps.google.com/?ll=44.981096,-93.235294&spn=0.000005,0.001835&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=44.980934,-93.235415&panoid=WawAnv_slf...

The building's prestige isn't losing anything by the loss of a few floors. It's on Nicollet Mall afterall. Home to the IDS, Wells Fargo Center, Target, US Bank, etc etc. This has been an empty lot for about 20 years, lets not forget that. I understand where you are coming from and it's good they ar...

Their financiers wouldn't give them the money for it. Remember that Opus went super bankrupt pretty recently. And again, within a couple blocks of this site, there's an entire block surface parking lot, two half block surface lots, and a few fourth of a block parking lots. There's plenty of room to ...

Nice...Opus will be doing the whole block. I like how they have included their apartment tower in the rendering.

Actually I think this doesn't include that 1/4th block surface lot in the corner.