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I have been told by people from the Northloop Board that Blue Plate Restaurant Company has signed a lease for the first floor space of the former HGA Building at 701 Washington Ave N. Most of the space is located in the newer extension on the north side of the building. Blue Plate owns the Longfello...

Drove by today and they are starting to dig the hole.

Oh. God. Hire a damn GD for the love of the lord. It's not that hard or expensive.

Really, you expect Jim Stanton to spend money.....really?

I attended a meeting at Valspar HQ this week and Sr Managment presented the plans for the redo of their old HQ. A couple highlights are..... They will have a showroom on the first floor of the taller/older of the 2 buildings. This building will also contain training/meeting rooms for a global traini...

You guys are really pathetic if you are discussing the placement of "closing" or "closed" on a sign, Jesus Christ!

Very exciting news, I will be so happy to see this surface lot gone!! And that parking ramp needs to be torn down before it falls down.

IMO the last thing we need is an "Arcade" we have an empty City Center, ghost town Block E, a near dead 2 block long Gaviidea Common.....good grief!

If this is condos, wouldn't they generally need to hit a certain amount of units sold before starting construction?

My understanding is with "self financing" that does not need to be considered, Jim Stanton has self financed in the past and I would assume this is true with this project.

One more Nimby post......IT'S GOING TO BLOCK MY VEIW OF SUMMIT HOUSE. Oh never mind I don't have a VEIW of Summit House
IMO this is going to be a fantastic addition to our skyline and I would expect Magellan is moving into Mpls for more than one building.

I will not pretend I have any answer for this corner all I know is the current situation is nearly out of control for many reasons. At a certain point you wonder what else can be done that will make any difference. As i often do I walked thru this area as this was happening and I will say I was disg...

Didn't they do Wild Rice Restaurant in Bayfield WI?

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Not much new in this but I thought I would post anyway.

Below is text of an email that was sent out today about Smack Shack. Do we ever tire of restaurant drama in this town? Can we just stop nibbling the ends of our fingers as we drive by under-construction joints waiting to see if perhaps they might be secretly open? The answer is no, because we’re hu...

Toured of the Neurology HQ in the Mill District today, Amazing space and very well designed with incredible technology. A $20M project from top to bottom. This is a great addition to downtown Minneapolis. Most of the executives are on the first floor with the top floor reserved as meeting-lunchroom ...

Thom Pham’s Wondrous Azia Kitchen has been listed on the State of MN Sales Tax revocation list on-off many times. This is a list of businesses that fail to pay the sales tax they collect to the State of MN. Azia is on the most recent list as owing $82,454.86 on 1/27/2011 If my memory serves me right...

i wish all of the rehab would stop and these low-density blocks would get redeveloped to at least four levels. I could not agree more, I drove University from the Capital to U of M yesterday and the potential redevelopment of the Ave is huge. There are several projects in process and I am sure ther...

I find this project totally ridiculous, just saying......

Great old photo of Westminster looking south on Nicollet

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8-10 years before anything happens.....

Smack shack at (I think) 605 Washington is moving along slowly, but it's moving along. They recently installed large green commercial/industrial style doors all around the side. From the looks of them they'll be opened when the weather is nice. I have heard from my Northloop board member friends th...