urbanMSP

Regarding station distances, I'm most familiar with the area from Raymond to Minneapolis. Among those stations, which could you reasonably get rid of? The only ones I can think of might be Prospect Park or the one outside TCF Stadium, but losing either of those stadiums would ultimately make the lin...

I just want to be clear, since I know my last post will immediately open me up to accusations of being "suburban" or something equally as bad in the eyes of UrbanMSP. I'm fully behind public transportation, but the point of my post is that the general perception of public transportation, a...

With all due respect, I don't know how you can say you witnessed: • A fair number of drunks • Gang arguments • Drug dealers • A couple drug transactions • One belligerent drunk who harassed you • A fight that transit police had to intervene in And still say your experiences weren't "actually da...

All things considered the naming rights issue is probably a wash anyway. If the city got the money, it likely would have just had to pay more of the tab anyway.

In Missourah, where I went to school, it was caddy. People in St. Louis also break the mold and use soda, though, so maybe they're an outlier.

Le Seuer's first photo definitely has the viking boats built into the design.

To answer the question of why people are afraid of drug dealers but not Piercing Pagoda.

It might have something to do with the lack of gangs and violence affiliated with the shopping mall kiosk market.

In walking down Nicollet Mall today, I noticed that the retail space in 1200 on the Mall (kitty corner from Peavey Plaza) is all torn up and under construction-looking. Anyone (maybe our user 1200onthemall?) know what's up with that? This is random, but did you know people outside of Minnesota say ...

There's not really a thread for this, and not sure there needs to be, but I heard on MPR on the drive home that the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is going to buy two downtown St. Paul hotels, which are believed to be the Crown Plaza and DoubleTree. Apparently the tribe is looking to diversify its portfo...

I've been thinking about it recently, and I'd really like to see a transparent roof.

"The Minneapolis Planning Commission approved a proposal for a new six-story apartment building near Fulton Beer called Junction Flats at its meeting Monday night."

http://www.thejournalmpls.com/news-feed ... ulton-beer

Is there really an "abundance" of empty retail space there now? No obvious gaps are coming to mind right now, but maybe I'm forgetting something.

Not sure I understand the logic: if the county was going to sell, it would have already happened. The way things are going right now, that land isn't getting any less valuable.

I like that the Phase II is well-connected to Phase I but has a slightly different look.

The view today, courtesy of the Journal:



https://twitter.com/smckenzie21/status/ ... 09/photo/1

Is phase two for this supposed to go on Main Street, between this and the A Loft building? Or would it go behind this?

The parking lot behind the movie theater is the most confusing, pedestrian unfriendly parking lot I know of.

Without any evidence except for your photos, the "To downtown St. Paul" and "TO DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS" signs shown are different styles. So my assumption is that the larger yellow background template is upper-lower case and the small blue signs are all upper-case. Is that the case...

If you see this figure walking around downtown, it is Nick.